Question 1

How to create shaped mazes from silhouette images

Accepted Answer

This video tutorial will show you how to create a shaped maze.

Question 2

How to use different Tag types in Connect the Dots

Accepted Answer

This video tutorial demonstrates the use of different Tag types in Puzzle Maker Pro - Connect the Dots

Question 3

How can I quickly set up lines, squares or dots for my journal using Journal Filler Plugin for Powerpoint?

Accepted Answer

This tutorial will show you how to quickly fill a shape in Powerpoint with lines, dots or squares.

As you know, each 'page' in Powerpoint is called a slide. That's the terminology we will use in this tutorial.

Overview

The Journal Filler Plugin for Powerpoint will save you time with two different options:

Quickly fill a shape with lines, squares or dots (this tutorial)
Add new shapes to set up a layout quickly (see: Layouts with Journal Filler)

To use the Journal Filler Plugin, click on the "Add-ins" option in the Powerpoint menu. This will open the Add-in ribbon, that includes the "BookPublisherTools" options. In the "More Options" menu you can find "Journal Filler". This will open a new side panel in Powerpoint.

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Add lines to a shape with Journal Filler

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Adding lines, squares, dots or little plusses to shapes is straightforward:

First, make sure you're looking at the "Lines" tab in Journal Filler.

Choose the fill option you need:

Horizontal lines
Vertical lines
Both (horizontal and vertical lines), resulting in squares or rectangles
Dots
Plusses

Depending on your selection, you'll need to set the Vertical and/or the Horizontal distance between the lines or dots. You can choose to either:

Set a fixed distance between the lines or dots (in inches)
Set the number of lines you want, e.g. 5 lines. The plugin will calculate the line distance for you when you click 'Go'

There are some presets for the line distance, such as medium ruled, wide ruled, 5 per inch, etc.

Once you're done, select one or more shapes that need to be filled, and click "Go".

Question 4

How to Fix Certificate Not Trusted Error

Accepted Answer

This tutorial describes the steps to 'trust' our certificate, so you can use the BookPublisherTools software.

When you’re installing our Powerpoint plugins, you may sometimes get an error stating that the certificate is not trusted.

Note: This works for many other MS Office plugins as well, so even if you’re not using BookPublisherTools software, this may help you.

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Cause

We sign our software with a ‘code signing’ certificate, just the way websites have a certificate to allow for secure HTTPS connections. For software it means you can be 100% sure that it was created by BookPublisherTools, and hasn’t been tampered. (The certificate is for “Core Insights” which is the parent company of BookPublisherTools).

Normally MS Windows will automatically accept and register this certificate, but in rare cases it doesn’t (even if you were able to install a previous version without problems).

Solution

The solution is to store the certificate in a ‘certificate store’ on your computer manually. That will tell MS Windows that you trust our software. (If you don’t trust our software, you shouldn’t be using it!).

Unfortunately, this takes 8 small steps, but each step is very easy to do.

Step 1

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Right-click the setup file (setup.exe if you see the file extensions) and click Properties in the pop up menu

Step 2

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In the properties window, you should see a tab “Digital Signatures” (1). This means it’s signed with a digital certificate. When you click this line where it says “Core Insights” (2), the Details button should be enabled, and you can click this (3)

Step 3

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Here you can see again that the certificate is for Core Insights. Click “View Certificate”

Step 4

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If you want to verify the authenticity of this certificate, you can click “Issuer Statement” (1), which will show you a page on the Sectigo website. (Sectigo is one of the worlds trusted organisation that issue certificate).

To continue, you should click “Install Certificate” (2)

Step 5

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It’s up to you whether you want to install the certificate for the Current User or the Local Machine (all users). It’s safest to select Current User and click Next.

Note: To install for Local Machine, you need administrator rights on your computer.

Step 6

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There are several options to store the certificate. Please select “Place all certificates in the following store”, then click “Browse” and select “Trusted Publishers”. Click “Next”

Step 7

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This window summarizes what you’ve selected so far. When you click “Finish” the certificate will be installed and you should be able to install the plugin normally afterwards.

Step 8

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Finally you should be seeing this confirmation message “The import was succesful”. If you get an error at this point, please take a screenshot and send this to the seller of your plugin or to our helpdesk (in the case of BookPublisherTools software).

Step 9

Okay, I lied. This is step 9, but to be honest, some steps didn’t take much work, besides clicking one button.

As a final step, double-click the setup (or setup.exe) file for the Powerpoint add-in, and install it.

Question 5

How to delete or copy presets for Puzzle Maker Pro

Accepted Answer

This tutorial shows how to delete or copy presets for Puzzle Maker Pro.

Preset Locations

All the presets that are saved from within Puzzle Maker Pro are stored on your computer, in subfolders for "Documents\BookPublisherTools\Presets\PMP".

An easy way to find that folder is to click the "Open Presets Folder" button on the Tools tab in Puzzle Maker Pro:

Tools tab Open Preset Folder

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When you click this button, it will open Windows File Explorer for the Presets folder:

Presets Folder Word Search

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In this folder you'll find subfolders for each puzzle type and Time Saver add-on. You can double- click a folder to see which presets are saved in it. For example you can double-click the Word Search folder to see all the Word Search presets.

Tips and Tricks

You can delete presets and copy them to a different computer. Please be aware that if the presets refer to other files on your computer, you'll have to copy those too, to exact the same location.

For example, if you have a Word Search preset that refers to a word file "D:/Word List/Occupations.txt": You'll need to copy that file as well, and put it in exact the same location. Otherwise it cannot be found.

For JigSaw, Sudoku and other modules that use images: You'll need to make sure that all the images that are referred to in a preset, will be available in the same locations when you copy a preset.

Question 6

How can I create Text Nonograms?

Accepted Answer

This video tutorial demonstrates the use of Puzzle Maker - Nonogram Text.

Question 7

POD Graphics Maker - Roman Mosaics animated demo

Accepted Answer

Watch the effect of the sliders to get a feel for POD Graphics Maker

Question 8

How to create a 'Simple Shapes' style pattern with POD Graphics Maker

Accepted Answer

This Youtube tutorial shows how to create Simple Shapes style patterns with POD Graphics Maker.

Pattern 04-2 - Simple Shapes is part of POD Graphics Maker XL Edition and Expansion Pack 04

Warning: When you open this pattern, it may seem as if it's not working - the pattern depends on color settings, and will default to white if colors are not set.

Question 9

How to create a 'Wind' style pattern with POD Graphics Maker

Accepted Answer

This Youtube tutorial shows how to create Wind style patterns with POD Graphics Maker.

Pattern 00-4 - Wind is part of POD Graphics Maker Starter Edition and XL Edition.

Question 10

How can I use Header Images in Ultimate Planner Maker?

Accepted Answer

This video tutorial demonstrates the use of header images.