Quick Panel Step 1 – Importing

HJ Quick Panel is a database tool that helps yearbook staffs import and edit the photo CD from the school photographer. This CD must meet the Professional School Photographer Association (PSPA) guidelines. HJ Quick Panel also works with HJ Panel Builder to flow your portraits from the database onto your Adobe® InDesign® panel layouts.

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Backup Quick Panel

Backup Quick Panel Avoid potential grief by backing up your HJ Quick Panel data regularly, once a week or more. HJ Quick Panel automatically backs up your data (except for the images). To Back up HJ Quick Panel data: 1. Open the folder to the Quick Panel data. Herff Jones\Applications\HJ Quick Panel\ 2. Move the […]

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Searching the Name List

Searching the Name List Search for names using any header in the Name List or search for several items at once. To find a name or names in the Name List: 1. From the Name List click the Search button  or use Find from the menu bar. 2. Under the appropriate header, type your search […]

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Export to HJ Panel Builder

Preparing Portraits for HJ Panel Builder If you have created your portrait pages in InDesign using the HJ Panel Builder extension, you can export your edited portraits from HJ Quick Panel and flow them on the page layouts in InDesign. To prepare portraits for HJ Panel Builder: 1. From the Home screen, click the Export to […]

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Assign Group Priority

Assigning Group Priority You can specify the order in which portraits display, usually first or last, by assigning its priority within a group. An example would be the Principal and Vice Principal in the faculty section. The Principal would be assigned a Group Priority of 1. The Vice Principal would be assigned a Group Priority […]

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Print Directory Proofs

Printing Directory Proofs HJ Quick Panel allows you to print the Directory Proofs for your images and IDs instead of sending your CD to the plant and waiting for proofs to come back to you. To generate Directory Proofs: 1. From the Home screen, click the Print Directory Proof button  . 2. Mark the sections […]

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Create Panel Sections

Panel Sections Portraits are typically organized in your yearbook by grade. HJ Quick Panel can create/combine/consolidate sections. For instance, elementary classes can be combined to flow by teacher, or grades 9, 10 and 11 can be consolidated into one underclass section. The sections are based on the information from the photographer’s CD. If you are […]

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Create an Edited PSPA File

Creating an Edited PSPA File You only need to send a PSPA file to Herff Jones if You corrected photo information in HJ Quick Panel AND You did NOT flow your images directly into the InDesign layouts (you want the plant to flow the portraits). To create a new, edited PSPA CD: 1. From the […]

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