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Like many other applications, you can create a template, which is pretty much a reusable document inside of Encore. As you see here, I created this template in Photoshop by just creating a background that was based on clipart and painted some grass with the grass-shaped brush and then I brought it into Encore and I added the text, which I then converted to buttons by, of course, going to the Object Menu and then converting it to a button. That was, of course, before it was text which is why it's ghosted out now. So what is the point really of a template? Well, sometimes corporations like to use a pretty much boilerplate background or a theme for a lot of their communications. So instead of having to rebuild the file over and over again, you build a template, which can then be modified. So what you do is your create your menu and then you go to the File Menu and then you choose to Save As and you'll see that we have the Encore file here. So this is where you might think to go originally to create a template, because a lot of the Save As Options would be here. Unfortunately it doesn't work here in this case. Instead what you have to do is make sure you click on your menu like so to have it highlighted, click on the Menu Menu and then you can save this menu as a template. You can also save it as a file. So once we save it as a template, you could choose a location and I'll go ahead and call this Version 2 and I'll click Save. Now I'm going to hop over to my Desktop real fast to show you something. Encore creates the menu for you in a folder as well. So here is the Barbeque Time Menu 2 and this is the template file and this is the PSD file, which it will bring in so you can modify it. Now, that was when I didn't save it as a self-contained file. Let's go back to Encore, click on the menu again, choose Menu, Save Menu as Template. This time I'll call it Version 3 and then click Self-Contained. I'll click Save, once again return to my Desktop and you'll notice that this time when you choose Self-Contained, Encore packs it away in a little folder for you, which is kind of handy as well. So what you could do at that point is you can always create a brand-new document. So I'll go to File and I'll choose to close this project and I won't save it and then I will create a new project. I'll call it Untitled 2 on my Desktop and we'll just give it a moment and then what I can do is go to my File Menu and I can import as a menu and find my template, which is the EM file, open that up and you'll notice that it says Untitled here and now what I can do is make some changes to this template. And you pretty much open this file over and over again to make your moderate changes to it and you don't ever have to worry about overwriting your template because you'll be modifying that file and saving it as something new.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Encore CS3 |
| Author: | Dwayne Ferguson |
| SKU: | 33884 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-00-9 |
| Release Date: | 2008-09-30 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 101 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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