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PageMaker

Essentials

 

Basics

  • Creating and saving a document
  • Working with page layout programs
  • Overview of the PageMaker tools
  • Creating and manipulating objects
  • Placing text and graphics
  • Page set-up and printing
  • Creating templates

Text Handling

  • Entering and editing text
  • Importing text
  • Tabs and indentation
  • Using style sheets
  • Rotating text
  • The story editor mode
  • Find and replace
  • Spell-checker
  • Leading, Kerning and Tracking
  • Font handling and printing
  • Hyphenation

Style Sheets

  • PageMaker's built-in styles
  • Defining your own style
  • Default and document styles
  • Linking styles
  • Applying styles
  • Updating styles

Colours

  • Defining new colours
  • Document vs. default colours
  • RGB vs. CMYK colours
  • Spot vs. process colours
  • Applying colour to objects
  • Applying colour to text

Page Layout

  • Overview of the control palette
  • Using column guides
  • Double-sided and facing pages
  • Mixing text and graphics
  • Independent and in-line graphic
  • Baseline shift on in-line graphics
  • Cropping and resizing a graphic
  • Creating graphic elements
  • Running text around an object
  • Customising text flow

Frames

  • Frames vs. direct placement
  • Adding text to a frame
  • Setting text frame options
  • Linking frames
  • Adding a picture to a frame
  • Setting options for framed pictures

Output

  • Importing EPS, PICT and TIFF files
  • Editing importing images
  • Updating imported files
  • Using master pages
  • Automatic page numbering
  • Working with longer documents