Course outline
The PageMaker environment• The principles of DTP and the PostScript language; the desktop, the toolbox, changing views of the page; document setup
• The Measurements palette: resizing and positioning objects; X, Y, W, H attributes; the use of rulers and guides
• Typing in text with the text tool; drawing objects with the graphics tools
• Using the PageMaker templates
Working with Text Blocks
• Placing text files; re-shaping and moving text blocks; using Autoflow and Semi-automatic text flows
• Cutting and pasting within a text block; re-threading text blocks
• Text Frames and Frame Options, including horizontal and vertical alignment and setting a text inset
Working with graphics
• Placing graphics as individual objects and inside frames
• Text and graphic frames
• Resizing, scaling, cropping and setting text wrap around images
Typography/Formatting text
• Character formatting e.g. size and font
• Paragraph formatting e.g. spacing, breaks, indents and leading
• Typographic control including tracking, kerning and baseline shift
Using Master Pages
• The benefits of master pages
• Creating, applying, editing and deleting master pages
• Adjusting a layout automatically
• Setting automatic page numbering
Using Stylesheets
• The benefits of stylesheets
• Creating, applying, editing and deleting stylesheets
• Importing stylesheets from MS Word
• Generating a table of contents
Using Colour
• Colour models and determining available colours
• Applying colours; Editing a colour; handling colour in imported files
Using the Story Editor
• Use of the word-processing tools e.g. spell check, search and replace, including attributes
• Applying stylesheets quickly
Speeding up your work
• Using Document-wide layers
• Using the Library; adding items, deleting items; labelling items
Output from PageMaker
• Printing issues
• Outputting to PDF format
