PTXprint does not have a formal user manual. Instead, the pop-up tooltips provide just-in-time help. With almost 400 different settings and styles to customize, you can produce whatever you need. Simply hover your mouse pointer over any option to discover what it does.

Tooltips are built in & easy to access

Getting Started: Slides, Articles & Videos to get you on your way

Articles

• Basic Tutorial – Get started with PTXprint
• Frequently Asked Questions – FAQs for both beginning and more advanced users

 

Slides 

• Master Slides for the most comprehensive and up-to-date presentations
• 1: PTXprint Overview – History & Features
• 2: Getting Started – From downloading to immediately creating your first draft PDF
• 3a: Next Steps & Audience Questions – Including manipulating white-space, image positioning, multi-book publication, 1 & 2 column layout, diglot (di-script or di-orthography) publication, & interlinear scripture using Paratext data.
• 3b: Above and Beyond the Basics – Including special layouts (reader edition, wide margins, columnar references), external cross reference lists & localized Strong’s Index, placement options for lists of cross-references, handling front matter, & advanced table of contents.
• 4: What’s New? – Including finishing options (like booklets), importing configuration settings from an existing PDF, improved hyphenation for complex scripts, difference between external cross-reference lists, incorporating Strong’s index numbers, demonstrating plugins, & more.

 

Videos

• 1-minute introduction to PTXprint
• Getting Started with PTXprint
• More videos about PTXprint

 

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Support: How can I get support for this tool?

PTXprint is a community-driven effort, where people contribute as and when they are able, helping each other solve issues that arise. The best place to receive such support from the community of users is to use the PTXprint category of the support.bible site. Please scan and search the existing questions posted at the site before asking a new question.

 

Complex Layouts: What else can I do?

For more complex outputs, it may not be immediately obvious how to get there. The following resources explore some of PTXprint’s more advanced options for those with a more precise or creative vision. It’s exciting to see our users push the program to its limits!

 

Articles

• Generate a table of contents
• Using a Bible Module to add questions
• Reader Layout (inner margin verses)
• Interlinear text
• External Cross-References in a Column
• Create a Strong’s Index
• Study Bible Layout
• Colored Diacritics

 

Videos

English Training Videos (show all)

• Getting Started with PTXprint
• Above and Beyond the Basics
• What’s New? (Oct 2022)
• Finalize Layout Using (a) Adjust Lists
• Finalize Layout Using (b) Styles and Change rules

French Training Videos (show all)

• Mise en page progressive avec PTXprint (Outilingua 2022)
• Aperçu general de PTXprint (Outilingua 2021)