Adobe Encore DVD: In the Studio

Encore Menu Editing

Encore provides a number of tools and assists for laying out and organizing these different elements in a menu design. You can drag-and-drop backgrounds and buttons from the Library palette, enter text for titles and annotation, and then enhance your design by adding decorative images, graphics layer sets, and vector graphics shapes from the library. Use the tools in Encore to position and adjust these elements into the final menu design.

The Tool palette

The Tool palette provides single-click access to tools for selecting and editing objects in the Menu window, as shown in Figure 5-18. Like the other palettes, it floats over the entire desktop, beyond the bounds of the main Encore window.

Figure 5-18. The Tool palette.

STUDIO ADVICEDragging into Menus

Encore is very precise about what action you are trying to perform when you drag an element into the Menu Editor window. Normally, you just drag a new element from the library to the Menu Editor window (or click Place), and then reposition it as desired.

However, if you want to add a new element within an existing button or graphics layer set object, you can first select a layer within the existing object (using the Layers palette or the Direct Select tool). When you add the new item in the Menu Editor window, Encore adds it as a layer in the existing object.

This can lead to disconcerting behavior if an existing object ...