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Design Environment
Design Window
    Using the Zoom Tools
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Design Options
Design Window


When you first launch FTDesign, you are presented with a blank workspace. The workspace is the area in which all your form design takes place. This includes placing all your graphic and text objects, variable and constant. FTDesign is a windows environment, so everything appears in your workspace exactly as it does on the final output.

You will notice a blue cross-hatched area around the edges of your workspace when you open FTDesign. This represents the edge of the printable area of the page to aid in the design process and can be customized as part of the Base page preferences.
Design Window


Standard toolbar contains the options common in most Windows programs such as file saving, printing and opening. 

Drawing toolbar contains the tools used to create the objects that make up the framework of your form design including text, lines, boxes, ellipses, images and barcodes.

Properties toolbar contains the tools used to modify the properties of the objects that make up the framework of your form design including text, lines, boxes, ellipses, images and barcodes.

Tools toolbar contains icons for all of the special formatting tools used to make the form design process easy, fast and accurate.

Drawing Toolbar Standard Toolbar Tools Toolbar Properties Toolbar
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