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Pagemaker Tutorials - Pagemaker Styles - A style is simply a definition of the type, paragraph, tab, and hyphenation settings for a specific type of text in your document.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Using Master Pages in Pagemaker - Master pages act as template pages for your document. Master pages save you time because they allow you to type or draw information once on the master pages so that this information appears on all the pages of your document.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Using Pagemaker Templates - A template is a document with preset formatting and settings. For example, if you were creating a newsletter, you could set the margins, columns, and guides where they need to be and use the same file to create all your issues. This maintains consistency throughout the issues.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Set Up Records for a Smooth Merger - Learn how to prepare a batch of records that'll slip seamlessly through a boilerplate publication with the new Data Merge feature in PageMaker.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Merge Records With a Publication - Say hello to automation and goodbye to tedium. The new Data Merge feature in PageMaker allows you to funnel a mass number of records through a single publication.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Simplify Your Life with Templates - PageMaker includes more than 300 professionally designed templates for every business need. Just open the Templates palette, select a category, choose a template, replace the placeholders with your content, and you're done.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Creating Tri-Fold Brochures in Pagemaker - This document contains sample setup dimensions of a Tri-fold brochure. Using the setup specifications listed here will result in a tri-fold brochure with three panels on each side that can be used for text and/or graphics. The column guides allow for three columns with sufficient room for folding.
Pagemaker Tutorials - Creating Booklet Brochures in Pagemaker - Using the setup specifications listed here will result in a booklet-style brochure with two panels on each side of the page that can be used for text and/or graphics. Two setups are provided. The two-page booklet uses columns to separate the "pages". The four-page booklet uses the Build Booklet feature to assist with layout.
Making Pages Pagemaker Scripting - One of the main uses of scripts is to extend the power of PageMaker. Find out more here.
OZ Pagemaker Scripts Automation - (Windows) Discover Adobe Pagemaker Automation.
OZ Pagemaker Scripts Automation - (Macintosh) Discover Adobe Pagemaker Automation.
Pagemaker Scripting for Non-Programmers - With PageMaker's scripting, you must actually tell the program what to do. You cannot simply let the program "watch" your actions and "record" them as a script. You need to type in the script line by line.
Pagemaker Scripting Tutorial (In Japanese and Translated into English with Google Translation) - Some tips for Pagemaker Scripts.
SVP Adobe Pagemaker Script Library - A library of Pagemaker Scripting Codes.
Pagemaker scripting vs. Framemaker - Converting our documents to Frame would be costly and time-consuming, so we would like to stay with PageMaker if possible. Listed in this article are some questions.
The Pagemaker Scripting Center - This web site is dedicated to scripting with Adobe PageMaker. The purpose is provide an open forum for scripting issues, questions and answers, and a place to trade scripts.
Take the Drudge Out of DTP - PageMaker's scripting capability lets you automate repetitious tasks.
The Worsley Press on Pagemaker Scripting - A good guide is: If you did it before and you know you'll have to do it again, then script it. Here you will find a few scripts that will simplify some tasks for you.
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