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		<h1 class="subhead">Designing a Template</h1>
		<p>The templates that come with Comic Life provide ideas for script formats and page designs as well as styles for the balloons, captions and lettering.</p>
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		<b>Script template attributes:</b>
		<li>Sample script text</li>
		<li>Script metadata, author, copyright etc.</li>
		<li>Script keywords</li>
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		Comic templates have a large number of attributes that can be modified (along with the Script attributes)
		
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		<b>Comic template attributes:</b>
			<li>Page orientation</li>
			<li>Document margins</li>
			<li>Page numbering</li>
			<li>Master page elements</li>
			<li>Page and Element styles</li>
			<li>Additional template page designs</li>
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		Creating your own template can be as simple as adding your name and copyright to the script metadata, but you can also change styles, change sample text and add images. Or you can start with a blank document and create your own template.
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		  <td>TO LEARN ABOUT</td>
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    		  <td>Setting up a custom comic template's overall appearance</td>
    		  <td><a href="../templates/setup.html">Setting up a Document to Use as a Custom Template</a></td>
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    		  <td>Setting default attributes for pages, balloons, captions, lettering etc.</td>
    		  <td><a href="../templates/defaults.html">Setting Default Attributes in a Custom Template</a></td>
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    		  <td>Accessing your template in the Template Chooser</td>
    		  <td><a href="../templates/Creating.html">Saving a Custom Template</a></td>
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