Designing templates

These guides cover the Paprika editor, where you design templates. New to it? Start with Design your first template.

• The workspace: the header, the panels, the canvas, menus and narrow screens.
• Keyboard shortcuts: every key the editor answers.
• Drafts and working offline: how your unsaved work is kept, and what works without the server.
• Packages: saving a template as a file, and opening one.
• Text: text frames, formatting, paragraph settings, outlines and right-to-left text.
• Lists: bullets and numbering.
• Tab stops: lining text up in columns.
• Styles: paragraph and character styles.
• Fonts: the font library, adding fonts, and what their licences allow.
• Pages: adding, sizing and reordering pages, the bleed, and millimetres or pixels.
• Frames: drawing, moving, resizing, rotating, naming, copying and pasting frames.
• Arranging frames: selecting several, aligning, stacking order, locking and hiding.
• Rulers, guides and snapping: measuring, guides, and how frames snap into line.
• Anchors and auto-size: text frames that grow, and frames that follow them.
• Images: adding images, cropping, zooming, turning, and text wrapping around frames.
• Shapes and soft masks: ellipses, rounded corners and shapes of your own; feathers and fades.
• Fills and strokes: filling and outlining frames, choosing colours, opacity.
• Colour: swatches, CMYK and spot colours, gradients and overprinting.
• Brand kits: your organisation’s shared colours, styles, images and fonts.
• Fields: the parts that change from document to document, and their sample values.
• Proofing: seeing how a print template will print: colours, overprinting, plates and paper.
• Print output: screen or print PDFs, the printing condition, printer marks and the preflight.
• Publishing: publishing versions of a template, and opening them again.