Adobe PageMaker 6.5

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Adobe PageMaker 6.5

• Intermediate Level Course

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Master Pages Palette

• The Master Pages palette allows you to create and
  apply Master Pages to Publication Pages.

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Creating Master Pages

• The New Master Page dialog box allows you to
  create your own new Master Page.

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Applying Master Pages

• To apply a master page to several pages at once,
  you need to use the Apply Master dialog box.

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Editing Master Pages

• The Master Page Options dialog box allows you to
  edit the Name, Margins, and Column Guides of an
  existing master page.

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Master Page Numbers

• The Page-Number Marker allows you to place a
  marker on a Master Page. The marker will
  automatically be update to reflect the page
  number of your Publication Page.

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Document Pages

• There are several ways to Insert Pages in
  PageMaker, the two most common ways are
• To use the Insert Pages command from the Layout
  menu.
• To right-click on the page icon at the bottom of
  the Publication Window.

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Rearranging Pages

• The Sort Pages dialog box allows you to rearrange
  publication pages in a way that does not alter
  the text in a story.

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Page Numbers

• PageMaker allows you to change the way in which
  the pages are numbered in the publication.

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Go to Page

• There are several ways to navigate through the
  pages in PageMaker 6.5.
• The best way to use all depends on how far into
  you publication you need to go.
• To go to publication page in a large publications
  (30 or more pages), use the Go to Page dialog box.

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Remove Page

• To remove publication pages using the Remove
  Pages dialog box.

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Control Palette Text Formatting

• The Control palette allows you to change several
  formatting options in one place rather than
  making repeat trips to the Type menu.

Use the character Icon button to display the
character View.
Use the paragraph Icon to display the Paragraph
View.
Use the Apply Icon button to apply the changes
you have made in the control palette.
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Text Threads

• changes to the story later on.

• Text in PageMaker is part of a story and each
  story has to be placed into a text block or text
  frame.
• When you have a story that cannot fit onto one
  page, you will have to Thread the story over
  several pages, or break it up into smaller
  stories.

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Working With Paragraphs

• The Paragraph Specifications dialog box allows
  you to apply many formatting commands that are
  not available on the Control palette.

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Style Sheets

• The Style Sheets contain character and paragraph
  formatting attributes, if used properly, style
  sheets can save you a lot of time when it come to
  making changes to a publication.

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Indents and Tabs

• The Indents/Tabs dialog box allows you to set
  tabs and indents to style sheets, text blocks and
  text frames.

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Bullets and Numbering

• When creating a numbered or bulleted list, you
  can do it manually by adjusting the tabs and
  indents to create the effect, but that is too
  time consuming, PageMaker had given you a plug-in
  that make creating numbered and bulleted list
  easy.

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Story Editor

• You can edit the text or Story in your
  publication, in the PageMaker Layout view, or
  with the built in PageMaker word processor,
  when you use the Story Editor.

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Spell Checking

• Before you print your publication, it is a good
  idea to check your spelling.
• You can only check the spelling in the Story
  Editor. You can check for basic grammatical
  error or correct the spelling of a selected story
  or an entire publication.

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Finding and Changing Words

• If you are trying to find a specific word or set
  of characters in a story, the best way to do this
  is to use the Find option.

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Adding Words

• There are two ways to add words to the User
  Dictionary in PageMaker
• When you are checking the spelling in your
  publication, you can Add the unrecognized words
  to the User Dictionary.
• When you are examining hyphenation of words in
  your publication, you can Add the words to the
  User Dictionary.

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Importing Colors

• You can choose which colors are imported when you
  place EPS graphics containing color information.

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Working With Pantones

• If used properly Pantone colors can save you
  money, while allowing you to add color to your
  publication.

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Importing EPS Images

• When it comes to importing images into PageMaker,
  EPS files are the most flexible graphic file type
  to use.
• They can be used for Vector artwork such as 2D
  logos, or Bitmaps. They can also contain
  Clipping paths extra colors that be used in
  PageMaker.

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Photo Effects

• You can use Photoshop plug-ins to enhance CMYK or
  RGB TIFF images in PageMaker.

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Keylines

• Adding borders or Keylines has been made easy.
  To do this manually requires too many precise
  steps, and you would have to group the Keyline
  with the graphic to move it around.

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Links

• When you update a link, the current internal
  version of the linked object is replaced.

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Masks
Masked

• If you want to cover a part of an object or
  create non-rectangular keylines, you can use the
  Mask command to create the effect.

Unmasked
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Text and Graphics

• You can add graphics into a paragraph, by placing
  the graphic into the text frame or text block.

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Text Wrap

• There are several controls you have available to
  control the way text is affected by a placed
  graphic.

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Layers

• The advantage of using layers is the ability to
  work on a publication and only focus on the
  content that pertains to the layer you are
  working on.
• You can hide or lock layers so that you do not
  accidentally make changes or get distracted by
  elements of other layers.

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Locking

• You can Lock objects into place in order to
  prevent them from being resized, or moved.
• When an object is locked, you will see a little
  lock icon appear if you try to move the object.

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Printing Spreads

• The Readers Spreads command allows you to print
  the left and right pages of a document at the
  same time, on the same page.

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Tiling and Scaling

• When you print your publication, your printer may
  not be able to print the page size you have
  specified in your document setup. To print these
  type of publications PageMaker provides you with
  the Tiling and Scaling options.

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Page Bleeds

• A Page Bleed is the area outside the publication
  page. It is used when you have an object or fill
  that extends to the size of the page.

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Printing What You Cannot See

• Non-Printing objects are objects that are set to
  be hidden from the final output.
• Setting objects as Non-Printing allows you to
  attach notes or comments to the publication
  without having them appear on the printed page.