8.1. Using page templates
This release of Sophie has limited support for page templates. Page templates can consist of the frame's border and fill. To create a page template, click the add to page template halo above the upper left corner of the page. A new entry will appear in the page templates palette in the library tab in the right flap:
If you go to another page and double-click the entry for the page template in the palette, that page template will be applied, meaning that the page's current fill and border will be replaced by those of the saved page template. If you open up this page's page HUD, you'll see that the Use template checkboxes are checked for border and fill. If you uncheck these checkboxes, the pages will return to the border and fill it had before the page template was applied.
You can save multiple page templates; however, in this release of Sophie this is of limited utility, as it's difficult to tell page templates apart.
Using frame templates
Frame templates work similarly to page templates in that they allow you to save the properties of frames and use them on other frames. To create a frame template, create a frame then click the add to template halo. A new entry will appear in the frame templates palette in the library tab in the right flap:
If you go in another frame and double-click the entry for the frame template in the palette, the settings of the frame template will be applied. Frame templates store more properties than page templates: in addition to the border and fill of the frame, the position and size of the frame as well as margins and padding settings will be applied. If you don't want all of these settings to be applied, uncheck the Use template checkboxes for the settings you don't want changed. You might, for example, want to have five frames with the same size, fill, and border but different locations. A frame which uses a frame template can also be modified so that it doesn't share all the settings of the frame template.
Another control for frame templates is the use frame template content halo. When this is set, the content that was in the frame template is used in the frame; when it is unset, the frame has its own content. Clicking this halo toggles the content back and forth.
