The New Gallery Wizard allows you to create a new Component Gallery with your own components. This is particularly useful if you are working on several publications that have a similar theme. You can design pages, objects and groups of objects that can be used in several publications and place them in a gallery. You can then pick the components from the gallery and add them to your new publication.
Once you have created a new gallery, whether you initially added resource files or not, you can add or remove components to and from the gallery at any time that it is open in the Components tab of the Organiser – see Adding / Removing Components for more information.
The Scratch Pad gallery is a special temporary gallery where you can store things while you work on your publication. Anything in this gallery will be lost when you close your publication.
Select New Gallery… from the Components menu at the top of the Opus Editor – this will open the New Gallery wizard.
On the first page of the wizard, type the name in the Enter name box that you want to call the new Component Gallery – the name will appear in the Gallery List when the gallery is open in the Components tab of the Organiser. Click on the Next button to continue.
On the second page of the wizard, use the Enter a file name for the gallery box to enter the pathname to the folder where the gallery will be saved. By default, the Galleries folder in the Opus folder (i.e. the folder where Opus was originally installed) will appear in the box followed by the filename of the new gallery. Click on the Next button to continue.
The new gallery will be given a filename which is the same name as you entered in point 2 above followed by the file type extension .GLY. For example, if you entered the name Marketing – the new gallery’s filename will be Marketing.gly.
Alternatively, click on the Browse… button if you want to store the new gallery in a different folder – this will open the Windows Save As dialog where you can locate a new folder to store the gallery. Click on the Next button to continue.
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You may want to store the new galleries you create in a separate folder than the galleries created by Opus. You may even want to store the gallery in the same folder as the publication itself, especially if you are giving your client the IMP file as well as the published version at the end of the project.
On the third page of the wizard, use the Create an empty gallery option if you want to create a gallery but have no resources you currently want to add to it. Click on the Next button to continue, this will take you to the final page of the wizard (point 11 below).
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You can add new components to the gallery by copying objects from pages in a publication into the gallery – see Adding / Removing components for more information.
Use the Automatically fill the gallery… option if you want the new gallery to contain resources that already exist on your system in a folder – this will open a fourth page in the wizard when you click on the Next button.
Click on the Browse… button beside the Enter a directory…box to open the Browse for Folder dialog and locate the directory in which your resources are located.
Use the File types to search for panel if you want to limit the resources copied into the gallery. These are file types, such as, JPG, AVI and TXT. You can import Images, Video or animation or Text files. By default, all options are selected and will be imported.
Tick the Look in subdirectories option if you want to include resources from sub folders of the directory you browsed for (point 7 above). Click on the Next button to continue.
On the final page of the wizard, click the Finish button to close the New Gallery wizard. The new gallery will be created and is opened in the Components tab of the Organiser.
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If the Automatically fill the gallery… option was selected (point 6 above) then the files will be imported at this point and will appear in the new gallery in the Components tab.
If you intend to share the gallery with other users and the components in the gallery are not available on a shared network, you should consolidate resources – see Managing Galleries for more information.