How do I make text bold or italic?
In versions of Infix prior to version 4, bold text can only be made if the bold version of a font is available in the document. The same is true of italic and bold Italic text Underlined text (& strike-out) can be created using the underline button and strike-out menus in Infix 2 onwards.
Why do pink space characters appear outside of some text boxes?
When determining the size of a block of text, Infix ignores spaces at the end of lines. These spaces will normally appear to lay beyond the right hand edge of text boxes.
What do all the pink rectangles mean?
When you use the “Selection Tool” (black arrow on the toolbar) all clipping paths on the page show up as pink/magenta rectangles.
Clip paths are used in PDF to hide parts of images (and sometimes text) and are normally invisible. They can effect the way you edit text and graphics and so Infix shows you where they are by outlining them in pink. When you save your document, the clipping paths will once again be invisible.
Upgrading from version 5 to version 6 on the Mac
If you already have version 5 installed on your Macintosh, you need to remove the preferences folder before trying to use version 6. To do this, go to your Home folder (choose Go->Home in the Finder) then navigate to Libraries then Application Support. You should find a folder called “Infix Pro”. Delete this folder. You should now be ready to run version 6.
Accessing external drives on MacOSX
The Macintosh version of Infix uses a non-standard file selection dialogue box. To access PDFs on your external drives choose ‘/’ from the Look in: drop-down menu. Then choose Volumes in the folder list below. You should then be able to see your external drives.
How do I edit upside down text?
Infix does not deal with 180degree rotated text very well.
Please click anywhere on the page with the text or object tools,
Turn on text boundaries using View->Text->Boundaries
Then rotate the page by 180 degrees using Document->Pages->Rotate…
Then drag out a new text box around existing blocks of text that have not formed correctly.
Then choose Text->Text Box->Rebuild
Repeat this for each block of text that has not formed correctly (because it was upside down before you rotated the page).
Once fixed, export the document (Document->Translate->CAT Export…) and save the tagged version.
When you reload the translation you can rotate the page back again to its original rotation.