Purpose
Multi-column newspaper design designed for printing. Wide images can span multiple columns and always snap to the nearest page edge to make a visually-appealing layout.
Features
- The "Title page" is actually a special header on the front page containing your publication's title, issue number, date, and other optional prominent info (set on the design and project meta settings).
- Content is divided into two, three, or four columns.
- The top margin contains the front page (publication title, issue number, date, etc.).
- Designed for duplex printing with the left page mirroring the right page's margins.
- Content can be divided into parts. Part openings and important articles' titles and cover images take up the full page width, whereas regular articles compactly fit into columns.
- Each article may include post title, ID, author, published date, categories and tags, URL, featured image, excerpt, custom fields, and content.
- If your content is already divided into columns, optionally automatically remove them to improve the layout.
- External hyperlinks (links to web pages not in the project) can be automatically converted to footnotes or removed
- Internal hyperlinks (links to content included in the project) can be automatically converted to footnotes, inline page references, or removed
Page Layout
- Issue and page number are in the outside top margin, the publication's title is in the middle top margin, and the publication date is in the inside top margin. The optional publication subtitle is underneath the other top-margin content.
Section Templates
Choose different styles for articles included in your project:
- Default Template: shows all content specified by the "Post Content" design setting (e.g. the article's title and featured image) in columns.
- Fullpage Content: contains only the article's content (no title, featured image, etc.) all in a single, wide column.
- Single Column: shows all content specified by the "Post Content" design setting in a single column.
- Important: shows the article's featured image and title across all columns, but other content is shown in multiple columns.
Parts start on a new page and include the part’s title, featured image, and content.
Special Instructions
Note that in order to improve page layout, all images and figures snap to the nearest page edge.
"Full width" images take up all columns and snap to the nearest page edge.
"Wide width" images take up 2 columns and snap to the nearest page edge.
Add the CSS class "pmb-dont-snap" to any images you don't want to snap like this.
