8. Haller Tabloid (Print-Ready PDF)

154 October 19, 2022
ByMike Nelson
Supports* front matter
* 1 layer of nesting (each article can be put in a part)
* back matter

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).

Design settings affecting all projects’ title pages: Title of Publication, Subtitle of Publication and Publication Preamble
Project Metadata affecting an individual project’s title page: Date, Issue Number, Frontpage Title Left Call-Out and Frontpage Title Right Call-Out (not shown).

Content is divided into two, three, or four columns.

The design’s Columns setting controls how many columns to use when displaying the content.

The top margin contains the front page (publication title, issue number, date, etc.).

The top margin of each page includes the project’s date, issue number, and page number; it also include the design’s Publication Title and Publication Subtitle

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.

An article including all the possible content: 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 (e.g., you’re using a column block), 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.

Design settings “External Hyperlinks” and “External Footnote Text” control how hyperlinks to content from the web are shown in the PDF. In this case, external hyperlinks are replaced with a footnote saying “See https://duckduckgo.com”.

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 numbers 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:

Section template selector showing Haller Tabloid design’s options

Default Template: shows all content specified by the “Post Content” design setting (e.g. the article’s title and featured image) in columns.

The Default Template shows most content (including the title and featured image) in columns (although fullwidth and wide images still occupy multiple columns.)

Fullpage Content: contains only the article’s content (no title, featured image, etc.) all in a single, wide column.

The Fullpage Content template doesn’t show the article’s title, featured image, or anything else except its content in one column.

Single Column: shows all content specified by the “Post Content” design setting (e.g., title, featured image, URL, etc.) in a single column.

The Single Column section template is like the default template (optionally including the article’s title, featured image, URL, etc) but only uses one, wide column.

Important: shows the article’s featured image and title across all columns, but other content is shown in multiple columns.

The Important section template uses a big featured image and title that span all columns, butu puts the rest of the content into columns (except for fullwidth and wide images).

Parts start on a new page and include the part’s title, featured image, and content.

Special Instructions

“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.

Setting an image block to be “wide width” or “Full width”.
Fullwidth alignment occupies all 3 columns; Wide alignment occupies 2, and all other alignments (unaligned, left, center, and right) take up just one column.

Generic Settings

“Apply Website Theme” will let your current theme help style the generated file. Generally themes are not well-suited to print and require significant customization to work, so we generally suggest you leave it unchecked. If you decide to check it on, you will need to have a business license in order to receive help resolving layout issues. So again, it’s usually recommended to leave it off. (The most common reason people want to use their theme is because they like the font, but adding a custom font to your design is usually easier than resolving all the theme’s print layout issues.)
“Custom CSS” is CSS code to be used only in files PMB Pro generates; it won’t be used anywhere else on your website. Because PMB Pro uses Prince CSS, use any CSS from the official Prince documentation.