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Activates the text box tool, which you can use to insert a text box.
Activates the track list tool, which you can use to insert a track list. A track list
is a list of audio files (tracks).
Activates the folder tool, which you can use to insert a folder. The folder refers
to data files.
Activates the image tool, which you can use to insert an image.
Activates the field tool, which you can use to insert different fields.
Track lists, folders, and fields are dynamic objects. The contents that are entered in the
document data are entered here. You can modify this data as well. Dynamic objects are
particularly useful for creating templates.
When you select a dynamic object and leave the cursor over the object, a floating toolbar
appears after a brief interval. The following icons are available:
Opens the Properties window (see
Properties and Background Properties
window
).
Opens the Document Data window (see
Document data window).
5.3 Drawing area
You lay out the cover elements in the drawing area. The drawing area consists of tabs for
the different cover elements that belong to the selected document type or that you have
added to a user-defined type, as well as the rulers at the top and on the left.
You can use the tabs in the drawing area to switch between the individual cover elements. If
you want to view multiple cover elements at the same time, you can select the cover ele-
ments that should be visible from the View menu: The drawing area will then be divided into
subwindows.
On the tabs you will find

an editable, non-crosshatched area the size and shape of the selected cover element
where the cover element is laid out, and

a crosshatched, non-editable area.
The gray line in the editable area is the edge of the cover element. The white outer margin
represents the bleed area which you can configure in the Printing tab of the Application
Preferences window (see
Application Preferences window).
Bleeding means that your design is printed beyond the margin of the cover element so that
it overlaps with it. Bleeding is useful to avoid "blank streaks" that can appear when the
printout has shifted or the cover element is not trimmed precisely.
You should not place any text or important information in the bleed areas, of course. The
design, however, should be expanded to fill the bleed area in order to ensure that the de-
sign is printed completely and no blank spots appear.