Adventures In Names - Family Products

User's Guide

The family products in Adventures in Names is an exciting part of our business which enhances the basic name/poem products with 15 additional text boxes. With the addition of these text boxes to the layout, an entire family may easily be included on one of our family art prints such as the family tree, or any art for that matter.

An entire new area of sales...
These exciting family items can generate an entire area of sales by themselves. Detailed steps are outlined below.

See Family Gifts page for visual examples od the different products.

Detailed Instructions:

First choose Family Certificates from the Product Category List.

Click
Choose the item appropriate for the art print that you want to use and click
The selection at this point is based on three factors. First the type of product., ie: Family combo, Family tree etc. Secondly, Portate (P)) or Landscape (L). Thirdly the number of extra text boxes desired for individual family members. At the top of this "Choose an Item" list are the basic products as you see in the image to the left.
Below these are the same categories with layouts already built with 1, 2, 3, up to 6 text boxes. See illustration below...
For one to six extra text boxes use one of these choices.
Otherwise, if you need more than six text boxes, you should select one of the first generic options from the top of the list and later, at the grid screen, you will INSERT the extra boxes as explained in the instructions in Step #7 below. After your selection of the Item click
At the Art Selection screen, the correct art print will normally automatically be chosen in this next step, so just click again.
Follow the instruction under the NOTES: section and choose a name, two names, a poem, or what ever is appropriate, just as you would with a normal product, and click
You will now be at the "Grid" or Layout screen. If you did not select a product with a pre-set number of Text Boxes (1-6), then follow this step, otherwise skip to the next step. Since then you have no extra Text Boxes, then they must be inserted. From the Insert menu, select Family Layout. Then click on the appropriate layout for the art print chosen to insert the additional 15 boxes available.
Just like the any text box, double-clicking on the family text boxes brings up a edit box where you may alter the text and font as you see fit. You may also delete the text by double-clicking on the box and then deleting the text from the edit box that comes up. The boxes may be moved, resized, nudged, or edited just like any of the regular boxes (by right double-clicking), they can also be hidden. To hide an individual text box, double right-click on it and click the Hide button and the box will disappear. To get hidden boxes back, you must uncheck the family layout from the Insert menu to make all the boxes hidden, then check it again to make all the boxes reappear.
Insert Greeting and Signature as needed.
If you need to save a family product in construction, or if you want to save it for reprint later, then you may use the FILE>SAVE PROJECT menu. Name it in dialog box.
This feature is important as you may need to stop creating a family product to get a sample or make another name product.
You may now proof print or print the new family product

Example Family Tree:

As an example we will create a family tree product using Ann and Jim for the two names. You can follow along creating this same product on your computer. Choose the Family Certificates product and click NEXT. Choose the Family Tree Combo item and click NEXT. Click next to accept the Family Tree art print. Enter Ann for the mother's name and click Find. Click OK then choose the Male data type and enter Jim for the father's name and click Find. Click OK and then NEXT to go to the layout screen. Click on the Insert menu item then click Family Layout. Choose Family Tree Combo to insert the fifteen text boxes needed for the Family Tree art print.
(Note: With the Family Tree if you have need for fewer text boxes, then use only the ones needed. Let the others remain with their default saying. This will keep everything looking balanced.)
   The text boxes have short sayings in each one by default. You may leave them as they are or edit the text by double-clicking on it. Just like the original boxes, double-clicking on the family text boxes brings up a edit box where you may alter the text and font as you see fit. You may also delete the text by double-clicking on the box and then deleting the text from the edit box that comes up.   The boxes may be moved, resized, nudged, or edited just like any of the regular boxes (by right double-clicking), they can also be hidden. To hide an individual text box, double right-click on it and click the Hide button and the box will disappear. To get hidden boxes back, you must uncheck the family layout from the Insert menu to make all the boxes hidden, then check it again to make all the boxes reappear.

Additional Features:
   Each text box can now be resized by simply clicking and dragging its edge in the direction that you want. You must click and drag very near the edge in the middle one third of the box's side to resize it. Clicking and dragging anywhere else will move the box instead of resizing it. This feature is also available with the name, meaning, traits, Greeting, and signature text boxes.

Adventures In Names also comes the ability to add solid lines to your layout. From the Insert menu choose Lines and click on Line1 or Line2 to show or hide the two individual lines. Just like with the family boxes or greeting and signatures boxes, when the menu item, Line1 or Line2, is checked it is visible and when not checked it is not visible. You may resize and move the lines just like you do the boxes. To make a horizontal line into a vertical line just resize its width to make it taller than it is wide by dragging on it's edges, as you would a text box.
   The two lines are not affected by the Lock Positions option. Thus, it is very helpful when moving or resizing the lines to lock the positions of the boxes so they aren't accidentally moved or resized.