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Space and offset between list items
By Tim Hards | November 30, 2007
Continuing my discussion of list properties, here is an explanation of the space and offset properties.
Space between list items
The space value controls how far apart the list items are.
This is a Tube List Items 1 list, with an ample 20 points between items:
And this is the same list with a snug -10 (minus 10) points:
Offset between list items
The offset values describe an additional distance between each list item.
This is a Tube List Items 1 list, with an X offset of 20 points between each item:
Below is another Tube List Items 1 list. This one uses a Z offset of 75 points to bring the lower items closer, and a -20 point space between items to reduce the vertical gaps:
In the next post I will describe the Item with fixed position property.
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Changing the look of 3D lists
By Tim Hards | November 28, 2007
In the last post, I discussed Perspector 4’s new lists. I mentioned that you could change the properties of lists using the Format List dialog box.
If you select a list in Perspector, and click Format, Format List…, you will see a dialog box like this:
I will discuss each of these properties in turn over the next few days, starting with…
List Direction
Direction describes the orientation of the list, and determines in which direction new list items are added.
The Basic List in the Perspector library is an example of a vertical list:
Whereas the Simple Flow Across list is an example of a horizontal list:
If a custom direction is used, there is no preferred orientation. The distance between list items is wholly determined by the offset values, which will be described in a later post.
Although the direction property is useful when creating new lists (more on this later), it isn’t so useful when changing the appearance of existing lists. The other properties are more useful, and I will describe these next.
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Perspector 4.0
By Tim Hards | November 8, 2007
Perspector 4.0 has been released. There are various improvements throughout the tool. I will discuss these changes in more detail over the next few weeks.
The big change for me has been the ability to edit lists much more easily.
Older versions of Perspector came with some list images in the library. But if you wanted to add new list items, you had to manually copy and reposition the item shapes. And editing the text in the list required editing each of the list items separately.
That’s all changed. Now you can move up and down through the list items when you are editing the text. If you want to add a new item, you now simply press Return. Delete and backspace join items together. This is how lists are edited in PowerPoint, so is extremely easy to pick up.
There’s also another neat feature of the lists if you’re interested in digging into the lists more. The Format List dialog box gives you access to the list properties. These properties control how the list items are positioned relative to each other. Because you can edit these, list appearance is very flexible. I will cover these properties in a future post.
With Perspector 4.0, the Perspector Library has been expanded with a bunch of new lists. Note that these images are not available in the Perspector 3 library because Perspector 3 doesn’t know how to handle the new list object.
The website gallery page hasn’t been updated yet, so I thought I’d post the new library images here so you can see the range of lists available:
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