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BASICS AND ESSENTIALS PAGEMAKER TUTORIALS

LAYOUT PAGEMAKER TUTORIALS

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AUTOMATION - STYLES, MASTER PAGES, TEMPLATES PAGEMAKER TUTORIALS

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BASICS AND ESSENTIALS PAGEMAKER TUTORIALS

Pagemaker Tutorials - Pagemaker Process Overview - Gathering your ideas and determining the goals of your publication is an important step in the writing process. It acts as a blueprint for what your publication will become.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Starting Pagemaker - How to open Pagemaker, create a new document and save files.

Pagemaker Tutorials - The Pagemaker Environment - PageMaker is a powerful software application used for desktop publishing and is available for both Windows and Macintosh users. The application allows you to manipulate features such as page size, text, graphics, and borders. PageMaker's strengths are in its ability to bring together text and images to make professional looking resumes, brochures, handouts, and newsletters.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Pagemaker Overview - The Pagemker document window, the pasteboard analogy and an overview of the pages/pull-down menus.

Pagemaker Tutorials - The Pagemaker Toolbox - The PageMaker Toolbox contains all of the tools you will use for creating and manipulating text and objects. It also contains two tools to help you view your publication. This document will familiarize you with the tools in the toolbox.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Pagemaker's Toolbox - An explaination of the tools in Pagemaker's toolbox.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Working with text in Pagemaker - Creating, importing and formatting text in Pagemaker. Contains exercises one to five

Pagemaker Tutorials - About Pagemaker Dialog Boxes - This document provides examples of the three most used dialog boxes in PageMaker.

Pagemaker Tutorials - More Tool Palettes - The colour palette, control palette and master pages palette.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Working with Pagemaker Ruler and Guides - PageMaker provides the ruler and ruler guides to help you position or align text, objects or graphics with a great deal of precision. You can choose to display or hide the rulers and guides as your needs change. You can also choose to have objects which are placed close to a guide "snap to" the guide for easy and consistent alignment.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Pagemaker Basics - PageMaker is designed to work best as a page layout program. It is excellent for documents with complex formatting and/or multiple pages, such as newsletters, resumes, reports, and, of course, handouts. The PageMaker window contains many parts that work together to make creating a document easy.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Hyperlinking Documents in PageMaker - Use these four supertips when you want to add links to your Adobe PageMaker 7.0 online documents.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Working with Text in Pagemaker - Many of the concepts and techniques that you know from working with a word processor will carry over to PageMaker.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Using The Pointer Tool in Pagemaker - When you are working with PageMaker, you will have the flexibility to define your text area. To determine the boundaries and placement of the text, you will be using the Pointer tool.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Creating HTML Documents - Creative Director Laura Urban Perry shows you how to convert your PageMaker 6.5 files to Web pages using the HTML Export plug-in.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Text Options in Pagemaker - PageMaker offers options for creating special effects with text. A drop cap can be used to distinguish the beginning of a paragraph. Reverse text can be used to emphasize text such as a heading or label.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Text Selection Tricks - These are simple ways to select (highlight) text that work in many programs. One easy selection method may be unfamiliar to you.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Using Layers Creatively - Adobe PageMaker includes a powerful Layers tool with countless applications — we'll show you three in this tip.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Using PageMaker 6.5 (to create professional-looking documents) - While individual applications allow you to enter and format text or create graphics, few applications can be used to easily integrate graphics and text. Desktop publication (DTP) applications can be used to put together professional-looking documents from separate graphics and text files.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Speed Up PageMaker - Find 6 ways to speed up Adobe PageMaker and make it run faster and help you work more efficiently.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Using Story Editor in Pagemaker - To edit text in a format that looks and behaves more like a word processor use the Story Editor. The Story Editor displays all the text in a particular story at the same size in block format for easy editing, even if the story spans several pages in your document

LAYOUT PAGEMAKER TUTORIALS

Pagemaker Tutorials - Leading in Pagemaker - Leading is the vertical space between lines of type and is measured in points. Like letter and word spacing, the right amount of leading makes text easier to read. You can specify the leading value yourself or let PageMaker determine it automatically.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Laying out a Pagemaker Document - Laying out a document Using master pages and setting up non-printing guides.

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 - Producing Professional DTP Destined for Commercial Print - This tutorial was produced with PageMaker 6 but the advice contained is still useful for more recent versions.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Advanced Character Formatting in Pagemaker - Tracking and kerning are two PageMaker options for controlling the space between characters. Kerning is helpful for fine-tuning the space between individual characters whereas tracking is useful for larger blocks of text.

Pagemaker Tutorials - How to Create a Newsletter in Pagemaker (PDF) - Learn the steps to create a newsletter in Pagemaker.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Inserting and Removing Pages Pagemaker - Once you have begun working on a document, you may decide that the number of pages you originally assigned to the document is not enough or perhaps too many.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Working with Columns in Pagemaker - While you can create columns manually by setting your text block's width, this process can be made easier by creating columns.

WORKING WITH GRAPHICS PAGEMAKER TUTORIALS

Pagemaker Tutorials - Graphics in Pagemaker Overview - Graphics can add interest and variety to your publication and are placed in PageMaker in much the same way as text. Graphics can be cropped, sized, and moved in PageMaker, but no changes can be made to the graphic itself; that must be done in a graphics program, such as Adobe Photoshop.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Working with Graphics - Importing and modifying graphics in Pagemaker. Contains exercises six to nine

Pagemaker Tutorials - Drawing with Pagemaker - PageMaker offers a unique graphics environment. In PageMaker you can move and resize graphics with ease, and format text around them (see Using Text Wrap). You can also use PageMaker’s drawing tools to create your own basic shapes.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Working with Inline Graphics in Pagemaker - Graphics placed as inline graphics become part of the text block. As you edit the text, the graphic retains its same relative position to the text but it will change position on the page (or may actually change pages) as you edit the text. Inline graphics are appropriate for documentation and reports where the graphic must accompany specific text.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Working with Independent Graphics in Pagemaker - Independent graphics are simply placed on the page. Regardless of what you do around the graphic, the placement will not change unless you move

Pagemaker Tutorials - Getting Started with Color in Pagemaker - PageMaker gives you a wide variety of options for using colors. Several colors are provided in the Color Library, but you may also create your own colors using PageMaker's color-matching system.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Creating a Color Library in Pagemaker - The Color Library is a custom set of colors that you create. You may want to create a Color Library for specific projects or simply to maintain and quickly access the colors you use most frequently.

AUTOMATION - STYLES, MASTER PAGES, TEMPLATES PAGEMAKER TUTORIALS

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.

PRINTING AND PREPRESS PAGEMAKER TUTORIALS

Pagemaker Tutorials - Pagemaker and Printing - How to print-out Pagemaker documents.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Preflighting Publications for Perfect Printing - Want to make friends with your service bureau and printer? Just bring them perfect files every time.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Printing from Pagemaker in Windows -This information will help you print your PageMaker document.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Printing from Pagemaker from Macs - This information will help you print your PageMaker document.

PLUGINS PAGEMAKER TUTORIALS

Pagemaker Tutorials - Working with the Add Cont'd Line in Pagemaker - Many publications use jump lines ("Continued on..." and "Continued from...") to tell the reader where to find the next or previous section of a story. If you've created your columns with text blocks, PageMaker can automate this process by adding a one-line text block after the last text block on a page ("Continued on...") and before the first text block on a page ("Continued from...").

Pagemaker Tutorials - Balancing Columns in Pagemaker - Sometimes you want the columns on a page to be of equal size, so that their top and bottom edges align. If you have used text blocks to contain the text, PageMaker can automatically calculate the average length of selected columns and then resize them to that length.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Applying Bullets and Numbers in Pagemaker - Once you have formatted a hanging indent, you can use the following techniques to quickly add bullets or consecutive numbers (each followed by a tab) to a set of consecutive paragraphs, to every paragraph of a certain style, or to every paragraph in the selected story.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Changing Case of Text in Pagemaker - PageMaker provides three type-case attributes: Normal leaves uppercase and lowercase letters as typed; All Caps displays letters as full-sized capitals; and Small Caps displays lowercase letters as small capitals, based on the size specified.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Working with the Drop Cap in Pagemaker - Drop caps can be used to add interest to a document. In PageMaker, a drop cap can be applied only to the first character of a paragraph. Drop caps work best with longer paragraphs (generally at least 3-5 lines) but this varies on the specifics of your drop cap.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Using the Grid Manager in Pagemaker - The Grid Manager allows you to create a grid of horizontal and/or vertical lines automatically instead of manually.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Using the Build Booklet Plugin - The Build Booklet plug-in lets you create publications in which pages are arranged for printing multi-page spreads (e.g., a book). The arrangement of pages printed on a single sheet or form is called an imposition. The Build Booklet plug-in creates multiple page spreads that print on a single sheet and assume the correct page order when folded.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Using Running Headers and Footers in Pagemaker - Running headers and footers are similar to page headers and footers; however, the running headers and footers are applied to a story rather than a page. If the story continues onto another page, the running header and footer will repeat. If the story does not appear on the page, the running header and footer will not appear.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Header and Footer Options in Pagemaker - When creating running headers and footers for a story through the PageMaker Plug-in, you can choose to write your own content or use a selector option from the Content listing in the Running Headers and Footers dialog box.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Using the Keyline Plugin for Borders in Pagemaker - Some designs look nice with a thin border to keyline (or surround) objects on the page. PageMaker can create a border automatically by drawing a box (or oval, for oval objects or oval clipping paths) around the object and grouping the object and the keyline together. This is done with the Keyline Plug-in.

Pagemaker Tutorials - Word Counter in Pagemaker - Word Counter is used to keep track of the number of stories, text objects, characters, words, sentences, and paragraphs in the current publication.