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In this
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tutorial, we'll take a look
at configuring Fields on your MegaEdit
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canvas to fit the Bleed page
or any margins that you have specified.
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This functionality is particularly useful
as these relationships will be maintained
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when the canvas is changed,
including an aspect ratio change.
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So I've got an example product here.
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I'm going to begin by adding
and configuring a field
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on this canvas.
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Okay.
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So in my example, I've created a text
field with a defined background colour
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just to make it clear how
much of the canvas the field is covering.
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So next,
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We'll click on the custom tab
to access the Form Builder functionality
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will assign the field a name
and a type as we have previously covered
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with the text
field using the form builder.
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Okay, so you'll see
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I'm in the advanced settings for this
particular field and in order to activate
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these FitTo bits of functionality,
we need to add an associated field tag.
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Now this is done at the bottom
of the screen here.
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We've covered quite a lot of what's
available in here already.
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What we're looking at in this particular
tutorial is one of these options here.
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If I just try a few of these
just to show you what they do,
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we have FitTo bleed.
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If I click the plus icon
that will resize the field so that it does
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constantly fits
the bleed regardless of the shape
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and size of the canvas.
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I take that tag off and try to page.
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You see, that's now fitting to our page
outline and is ignoring the bleed.
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And then we also have FitTo margin.
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Now this depends on you
having specified margins
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in your MegaEdit products,
output type specification.
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You see, I've got a sample margin
which is displayed here in the green.
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If I add to that,
you see it snaps to my margin.
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In addition to these options,
we have this show Border Controls.
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So this gives us the ability to apply
borders to any of those three field tags.
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This means, for example,
we could apply a ten millimeter
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border on the left side,
meaning regardless of the canvas size,
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the field always sits ten millimeters
from the specified field tag.
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So if we have show
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border control
specified for this particular field,
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will notice that on the right hand side,
we have these border options.
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Now, initially these will be locked.
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So changing just one of these entries
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will give you a matching value
for all of them.
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And these relate to left, right,
top and bottom.
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You see that I put ten that
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now means it's ten millimeters
from each of these.
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Now, do bear in mind
that the default metric is millimeters.
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However, you can change this
to inches within the script config
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if it's required.
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We also have the ability
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to apply different borders
to each of these sides if necessary.
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So I can just go on the unlock icon.
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She's on the actual form itself
that gives me separate
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access to each of those sides.
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So for example, if I set this to zero,
you can see there's no longer a border
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on the right hand side.
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So let's take a look
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at an example of a field with a FitTo tag
and then one without.
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And we'll see how they behave.
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So here I have a
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a sized field, but it does not have
any of these fit options specified.
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So you can see if I go to its settings
on the form builder,
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it does not have any of the FitTo
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tags specified.
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Alternatively on my other page
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and exactly the same size field,
exactly the same position.
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If I go to this one,
you'll see that this has a FitTo
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bleed specified, but with a ten millimeter
margin on every side.
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So now I'm just going to switch
between canvases.
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So this will be a different aspect
ratio and a different size.
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We'll take a look at those two fields.
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If I now scroll between them,
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you can see that this FitTo field
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maintains a static distance,
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a static border away
from the FitTo field that we specified.
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However, if I go to the non fit, it won't.
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Although it has changed
the shape of the field,
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you can see it is not a constant border
around the edge anymore.
