Adobe pagemaker

pagemaker

1. INTRODUCTION TO ADOBE PAGEMAKER Prepared By Prof. Ms.V . Umamaheswari , Department of IT, Bon secours college for women, Thanjavur .

2. INTRODUCTION

3. DEFINITION PageMaker. A full-featured desktop publishing program for Windows and Macintosh from Adobe. PageMaker was the de facto standard in the graphics arts industry for many years for creating ads, brochures, newsletters and books of all sizes and kinds.

4. FEATURES Place Native Adobe Photoshop Files; Expanded Support for Placing Native Illustrator Files; Place Adobe PDF Files Created in Other Applications; Updated EPS Filter; Data Merge; Improved User Interface for Exporting Adobe PDF Files; Tagged PDF Support (eBooks); Updated Converter for QuarkXPress & Microsoft Publisher; Updated Filter for Microsoft Word & RTF File Import; Enhanced Operating System Support.

5. ADVANTAGES PageMaker makes your work more efficient PageMaker makes your time more productive. Designing and producing document is very easy with PageMaker. In PageMaker there is too creativity freedom. PageMaker is rich in tools which regularly makes it more flexible .

6. DISADVANTAGES Only one undo command is possible No spreadsheet support The Import of Adobe PDF is only possible as a graphic T he Spell-Checker works in the text mode window only Generating of bad HTML source code

7. USE OF PAGEMAKER Adobe PageMaker is an application from Adobe Company . It is a software used for Desktop Publishing. That means, we can design e-books, brochures, hand bills, visiting cards and other printing works. After  designing in Adobe Pagemaker , you can take print in printing press.

8. TOOLBOX

9. TOOLS Toolbox contains all the tools used to create a publication in pagemaker . Choose window and select show tools to display the toolbox . ICON FUNCTION DESCRIPTION Version Window Displays, when clicked, the version of PageMaker that is being used. To remove the  Version Window , click inside this window . Pointer Selects lines, shapes, graphics, and text boxes. Selected items can be moved, resized, and have their attributes changed. Text  Selects text or sets insertion point for adding text. Rotate  Rotates text blocks and graphics to almost any angle. Crop  Crops graphics (press and hold the [ Shift ] key to crop proportionally). Line  Creates straight lines at almost any angle. Constrained Line Creates vertical, horizontal and 45-degree-angle lines.

10. ICON FUNCTION DESCRIPTION Rectangle  Creates square and rectangle shapes. Rectangle Text Box Creates rectangular-shaped text boxes. Ellipse  Creates circular and oval shapes. Ellipse Text Box Creates circular and oval-shaped text boxes. Polygon  Creates basic polygons. Polygon Text Box Creates polygon-shaped text boxes.

11. HOW TO CREATE A NEW DOCUMENT

12. DOCUMENT SETUP

13. CONTROL PALETTE The control palette displays the properties for the selected paragraph, character or object. It is a sort of shortcut to the object, text, and paragraph properties. Choose window and select show control palette to display the control palette .

14. 1.The Control Palette in Object Mode Thecontrol Palette when it has an object selected displays the objectproperties such as the reference point, position, size, scaling,cropping , printer resolution, rotating, skewing and horizontal andvertical reflection . Horizontal/vertical mirror : mirrors the currently selected object along the x or y-axis. Height/width: sets the height and width of the currently selected object, either numerically in inches or in percentages of the current size. Rotate : Rotate, is used to rotate the selected object around an axis. Thecenter of rotation is set as the object's center and exact measurementscan be used. Skew: This skews, the currently selected object, in degrees. XY position: sets the horizontal and vertical position of the upper-left corner of the currently selected object.

15. 2.  The Control Palette in Character Mode TheCharacter Palette is displayed when the text tool is selected. It hasoptions for changing text styles, size, leading, tracking, width andKerning . There is a toggle button to shift betweenparagraph view and character view.

16. Kerning: Text Kerning adjusts the spacing between characters in text. It isselective , so you can adjust just one or two characters, or wholesections of text. Negative numbers move characters closer together,whereas Positive numbers space them out. Leading:  TextLeading adjusts the spacing between lines of text. This is applicableon line-by-line basis. Positive and Negative numbers have the sameeffect as they have on Kerning, except that the spacing is between thelines of text. Tracking:  TextTracking adjusts how closely characters follow each other. Very tighttracking brings text closer together, very loose spreads it out a bit. Size: Text Size adjusts point size of text. Position:  TextPosition adjusts the placement of the text on a given line. PositiveNumbers move the text into a super text position (above the line), andNegative numbers move it into a subtext position (below the line). Width:  TextWidth adjusts the character width and does not affect height. Thelarger the percentage, the wider the word. Percentages over 100% make itproportionately larger than the standard sizing, under 100% make itproportionately smaller.

17. 3 .  The Control Palette in Paragraph Mode The control Palette displays options for the paragraph style, alignment, indents, spacing, grid spacing and grid alignment

18. The Color palette Use the Color Palette in PageMaker to assign spot, process and tints forall objects and text within the document. Note that placed EPS graphicswill import their colors within the color palette. This is an example ofwhen consistent color naming is essential. Remember to delete unusedcolors before sending files to Printing Services. There should be onlyone entry in the color palette for each unique spot color.

19. The Style Palette The Style palette contains styles (combinations of typographical means) which are applied to the corresponding items in the text ( e.g.  chapter heading, caption) in order to give them their distinctive appearance in the publication. Most publications contain structural text items, such as chapter headings , body text, listed enumerations, captions, etc., PageMaker has a palette with standard styles, but using the option Define styles under Type menu, you can make your own Style palette. Part 2 of the course explains in detail how to do this.

20. The Layer Palette Layers offer you unprecedented control over your documents.  The Layer Palette is used where a multiple layers document structure is required . Layers allow you to separate the different elements that makeup your document. You can hide, display, add or delete layers as required . Choose Window and select Show Layers to display the Layers Palette .

21. The Master Pages Palette The master Pages palette is used to create and apply masters. It displays a list of available master pages for a particular document. The master page icon at the bottom of the window is used when you want to go to a master page for editing. Choose Window and select Show Master pages to display the master Pages palette .

22. The Hyperlink Palette A hyperlink has two parts: a source, which is the hyper linked text, or graphic that you click, and a destination, which is where the source jumps . Inside a PageMaker publication, destinations are called anchors. You can also give a valid web hyperlink. Choose Window and select  Show Hyperlinks to display the Hyperlinks palette.