About Ready,Set,Go!
Ready,Set,Go!  is just plain easy to use. Once you learn a few basic skills, you can create pages that normally require the skills of many different people - word processors, typesetters, and pasteup and layout artists.
RSG screen shot
Features in Ready,Set,Go!
  • Palettes
    • ToolsColor
    • Stylesheet
    • Typography
    • Pages
    • Block specification
  • Units of Measure
    • Horizontal and vertical units
    • Inches, Centimeters, Picas, Ciceros, Points
  • Working with Documents:
    • Zoom from 50% to 800
    • Thumbnail and slideshow view of all pages in a document
    • Export to EPS, PS, DCS, RTF or HTML
    • Rearrange pages by drag and drop in thumbnail view
  • Document Design
    • Pasteboard
    • Multiple master pages
    • Facing Pages
    • Grids
    • Guides
    • Grids and guides specified for single of facing pages
    • Specify grids, guides to 1/1000 Point
  • Colors
    • Color models supported: RGB, CMYK, HSV and PANTONE
    • Import colors from other documents
  • Working With Objects
    • Text, Pictures, Lines, Rules, Round-Cornered Rectangles, Ovals, Polygons
    • Group
    • Lock/Unlock
    • Specify object size and position to 1/1000 Point
    • Rotation to 1/10 Degree
    • Flip horizontal or vertical
    • Alignment - tops, bottoms, horizontal or vertical centers, left sides, right sides
    • Move to front/back
  • Working with Graphics
    • Arrows - start and end
    • Customize shape of arrow head
    • Line thickness to 1/100 Point
    • Solid or Dashed lines
    • Color fill or frame
    • Tint fill or frame 0 to 100%
    • Open/closed paths
    • Gradient Fills - linear or circular
  • Working with Images
    • Supported types: EPSF, PICT, TIFF, JPEG, GIF,  MacPaint, QuickTime
    • Crop and rotate and scale
    • Color and tint greyscale pictures
  • Working with Text
    • Linking of text between blocks
    • Import text or RTF
    • Import tagged text
    • Runaround inside a shape in a text block or around other objects
    • Vertical Justification - top, bottom, center, full (by line or paragraph)
    • Scale text to block/block to text
    • Automatic page numbering - Roman or Arabic numerals
    • Insert column breaks
    • Stylesheets to character level
    • Import stylesheets from other documents
    • Document wide find/replace
    • Spell Checking / Hyphenation for English (French, German, Italian, Spanish and other languages on request).
  • Typographical Features
    • Select font by family
    • Size - specify to 1/100 Point
    • Change font style or variation
    • Leading - specify to 1/100 Point
    • Paragraph leading - to 1/100 Point
    • Justify - Left, right, center, paragraph, full
    • Kerning Pairs - automatic and manual - specify to 1/1000 Em
    • Tracking of text - automatic and manual - specify to 1/1000 Em
    • Shift character up and down - specify to 1/100 Point
    • Em, en and non-breaking spaces
    • User-defined fixed spaces - specify to 1/1000 Em
    • Indents - Paragraph, left and right
    • Full tabs and tab columns
    • Color and tint text - specify to a single character
    • Smart quotes
    • Show invisibles
  • Glossaries
    • Object and text glossaries
    • Import glossaries
  • Printing
    • Specify halftone screen - frequency, angle and dot shape
    • Print crop marks
    • Print film negatives
  • Printing Color Separations
    • Specify colors as spot or process
    • Knockouts - on, off, overprint black only or specify per block
    • Print registration marks
    • Print selected plates
    • UCR
    • Specify paper type
    • Specify separation and knockout of pictures at block level
    • Chokes and spreads - block level control, specify to 1/1000 Point
  • Other Features
    • Article Designer
    • Drag and drop
    • List used fonts, used pictures
    • Define pages in scripting language
    • Character/word count
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