How to use Border Fonts
Applies to: Minuteman Printshop, Wild West Press
1. Before you get started you should turn off Word's AutoCorrect features to
prevent them from applying undesired formatting. Go to Tools > AutoCorrect
Options > AutoFormat As You Type and uncheck everything in the Apply as
you type section. Click OK.
2. Next you'll create a text box to hold the border. Choose
Insert > Text Box from the menu and draw the box. Adjust
placement and size as needed.
The box comes with a default border of its own. To turn it off,
right-click the box, choose Format Text Box and on the Colors
and Line tab set the color dropdown to No Line.
3. Now you'll create the border or frame. Select your desired border font and size and type a frame as
follows: Look at the number pad on the right side of your keyboard
(laptop owners bear with me for a minute). The keys are arranged in a
square with the 7 forming the top left, the 9 the top right, 8 is the
top horizontal character, etc. To get the distance between the left and
right edges of the frame, you insert spaces. Using this schema, type
your frame. It will look like it does on the right. To illustrate, I've
switched the font back to a normal text font, so you see the numbers I
typed to get the frame. You will notice that you can't type text in the
frame without upsetting the frame edges. We'll get around that in the
next step.
4. Once the frame looks the way you like it, create a second text
box on top of the first one. This text box will hold whatever content
you want to put inside the frame. Adjust the size and position of the
box and get rid of its border as you did with the first one. Now place
your text and / or images into the box.
You're done!
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How to use Mortise images
Applies to: Minuteman Printshop:
Mortises were used to create embellished first characters or "Rubrics". Rather than create a new rubric for each character of the alphabet, printers employed mortizes, which were printing blocks featuring the embellishments and a cutout where an ordinary letter could be fitted.
This effect can be achieved using the mortise images supplied with the Minuteman Printshop.
The simplest method is to use Microsoft Paint(TM) or a similar bitmap-editing program to add a letter to a mortise image. Microsoft Paint(TM) is part of Microsoft Windows(TM).
1. Click START > PROGRAMS > ACCESSORIES > PAINT
2. Choose FILE > OPEN The mortise images should be located in the following folder: C:\Program Files\WaldenFont\MinutemanPrintshop\ClipArt\Mortises
3. Click the text tool (A). Click in the cutout area in the mortise.
4. Type the desired letter. Adjust Typeface and size as needed.
5. Use the small handles on the edges of the blue box surrounding the letter to adjust the size of the type area. It should fit in the cutout of the mortise.
6. Click FILE > SAVE AS and save your image. Be careful not to overwrite the original file.
You can now insert this image in your word processing software.
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