Design notes

This page contains notes on some of the features available to the flipchart designer.

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Layers

Layers are an important aspect of flipcharts to understand.

Anything you place on a flipchart page is placed on a layer. Here are the default layers things are placed on:

• Pen annotations - top
• Highlighter annotations - top
• Eraser annotations - top (it is important to remember that the eraser does not in fact erase, but creates an object that makes other annotations below it, invisible)
• Text - middle
• Images - middle
• Shapes - middle

This is important to understand because you will then realise why you cannot place text over a pen annotation in the default settings. You can of course change the layer of an object by double clicking it, selecting Properties and Appearance. You can then choose to place the object on the Bottom, Middle or Top layer. Alternatively, Right click > Edit > Layers

Layers feature in:

    Insect layers

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To back / To front

This feature, available through Right click > Edit, allows you to move things around on the same level. The pobjects remain on the same layer though so this cannot be used for moving text onto a pen annotation, for example.

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Lock

This is a useful feature, available through Right click > Edit > Lock, which locks the object in place and can therfore bit be moved. This is useful if you have some things on a page that you want students to move, and some that you don't want them to move. It is easy for students to accidently 'pick up' the wrong thing and move it. Locking objects prevents this.

To unlock something: Right click > Edit > Unlock

Important - You can still move locked objects in Design mode. The object will only become unmovable outside of Design mode.

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Page notes

Page notes are useful for writing instructions for the page if the flipchart is to be used by someone else or to remind you to do something.

They are a small text box that opens seperate to the flipchart. Each page has it's own Page notes.

The text in page notes can be dragged onto its respective page. This enables the Page notes to be used during labelling activities.