Use the [Spine caption] dialogue to define text, a background colour and/or a background image on the spine of your document. The image is placed over the background colour and the text is placed over the image. You can create a spine caption only when your Document type is [Booklet] or [Perfect Binding].
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Remove the spine captions |
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[Colour picker] Click the icon of the colour picker to activate or deactivate the colour picker. You can pick the colour of text and of graphical objects. |
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[Extend the spine content to fill the bleed area for the spine] |
Click [Document] - [Spine caption] or double-click the spine caption in the [Preview] view.
[Transparency] or [Use bleed]
Button [Transparency] is available when a cover is imported from a file.
Click this button to add transparency to the spine of the imported cover. The spine of the imported cover is used as background for the spine caption.
Button [Use bleed] is available when the cover is created by the application.
Click this button to use the available bleed for the spine of the cover. Check if the available bleed is sufficient to fill the entire spine.
Define the background colour for the spine caption. You can select the background colour or use the colour picker tool.
If required, create content for the bleed area for the spine. Usually, the bleed area is 3 to 5 mm larger than the trim box.
Click icon: [Extend the spine content to fill the bleed area for the spine]
Enable option [Text] to add text to the spine. The spine caption can contain up to three lines of text. Select the options that you want to apply to the default font, such as font style and font size.
Align the text on the spine and define the orientation of the text.
Enable option [Image] to add an image to the spine. Click the checkbox and than browse to the file you want to use as background image on the spine caption.
Align the image on the spine and define the orientation of the image. You can use [Scale to fit] to fit the image to the spine.
Images of type BMP, GIF, TIFF, TIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG and EPS are supported.
You can define the width of the spine automatically or use a custom width. By default, the width of the spine depends on the number of pages in your document but it can be set to a fixed value.
Click [OK].