Panels

[Folbo]

I am having trouble with the panels in publisher on a Mac. I have tried searching these forums but "Studio management", "Panel management", "View Management" elicit no meaningful results.

I have been fighting with the 'studios' (whatever!) all day ... again ... and there seems to be some many issues that it must be me ... I have just accidentally dragged a tab and lost my carefully fought layout ... so please forgive my frustrations ... saving layouts is one of the aspects that I cannot yet find (alongside docking multiple panels alongside each other).

Does anybody know of a single place to find clear instructions about 'Studio Management'?

Thanks.

[walt.farrell]

First, you can't save studio panel layouts, so don't bother looking for that.

If you've dragged a panel away from where you want it, you just drag it back

And if you're on Mac, you can have one stack of studio panels docked on the right, and/or one stack docked on the left. On Windows you can have up to two stacks docked on each side.

I do not think Serif has provided any tutorial videos about how to reconfigure studio panels, but someone may know of some. Dragging the tabs is very sensitive to the exact placement of the mouse at the end of the operation, both horizontally and vertically. The blue highlighting when you reach the right spot should help, but it's largely trial and error to figure it out, in my experience.

Also, for this purpose, tutorials in Photo or Designer would also help you; managing the studio panels is common to all 3 applications.

[Folbo]

Thanks Walt.

I had not thought of the left 'stack' as being a place to dock stuff ... useful.

I am hopeful that as the software matures it will evolve into something more refined (like all of us!). I remember when InDesign the 'Quark Killer' first appeared. The first few versions over the next couple of years added some really great (missing?) stuff ... after which the updates bought increasingly marginal features.

I will wait and persevere.

Regards.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.

[R C-R]

The Designer help topic Customizing the workspace includes a very brief description of all the options, but at least for me it took a lot of experimentation to understand what it all meant.

The same info is in the same-named Publisher topic.