adobe pagemaker.pptx

basics of pagemaker

1. ADOBE PAGE MAKER 7.0 Ms. P. Mathubala MSC ., ASSISTANT PROFESSOR DEPT OF IT BON SECOURS COLLEGE FOR WOMEN THANJAVUR

2. Introduction PageMaker 7.0 is one of the best and popular Desktop Publishing Designing Program developed by Adobe Corporation in USA. It is specially used in page designing. Today is popular in press and printing jobs with the help of this program, we can create any kinds of Designing like Visiting cards, Identity card, advertisement, Logo, Brochures, News papers and different articles etc. It is quite easy with its leading, tracking, set with features to adjust the text and to make publication designing .

3. unit-1 Adobe PageMaker: #PageMaker is a desktop publishing application that is used to create professional quality business publications for print and electronic distribution.

4. Types of Publications : #periodicals #promotional #informational #stationery #instructional #presentation

5. Periodical publication: NEWSPAPERS MAGAZINE

6. Promotional publication: ADVERTISMENTS PRESS RELEASE

7. Informational Publications: BROCHURES CATELOGS

8. Stationary Publication: BUSSINESS CARDS ENVELOPES

9. Instructional publications: TEXT BOOKS EMPLOYEE HANDBOOKS

10. Presentations POSTERS HANDOUTS

11. HOW TO START PAGEMAKER: start all program adobe pagemaker7.0 #Open a PageMaker document or template #choose File > Open. #In Windows,choose PageMaker (7.0 ) in the Files of Type menu. #Select a file and click Open.

12. creating a publication

13. How to Create a New Document in PageMaker 7.0 # Click on the File menu, and select New from the drop-down menu # The Document Setup dialog box enables you to customize your document design # Your selections in the Options section will determine how PageMaker will handle a document that has multiple pages.

14. Placing a graphics # From the Toolbox, select the Pointer tool. # From the File menu, select Place. # Select the image file you want to place. # In the Place section of the dialog box, verify that the graphic will be placed as independent graphic .

15. Adding a Text in PageMaker # Select the "Text" tool from the Toolbox. # Move the cursor back to your document, where it will turn into an I-Beam(see diagram). # Click the mouse at the spot in your document where you want to type in your text. # Release the mouse once the text box is of the size you want. # Begin to type in your text.

16. Saving a Publication # Choose File > Save As in the menu bar. ( or) Press Shift + Ctrl + S in the keyboard. # Now Save Publication dialog box will appear. # Type a new name or specify a new location. Click on the Save button.

17. working with text

18. P ageMaker’s Text Boxes . A text box is a "container" for your text. It is a confined area on your document that is designed to hold text. The text you type into your document will automatically be enclosed in a text box PageMaker’s Text Tool

19. T oolbox in PageMaker

20. Creating columns # From the Layout menu, select Column Guides… # The Column Guides dialog box appears. # In the Column Guides dialog box, type the number of columns that you want for the page.

21. Import and place a text # Open the File menu, and then select Place from the drop-down menu. # Scroll to the folder that your text file is in and double # click to open it. # Click on the Open button . # Click on the spot on the document where you want to import your desired text

22. Controlling the flow of text # Open the document you want to format in PageMaker. # Select the "Layout" menu and click “Auto Flow " to set the text to flow automatically. # Click the "Pointer" tool in the "Toolbox" palette. # Select the "File" menu, and then click "Place (Import text and graphics)."

23. Using reverse text # F rom the Toolbox, select the Drawing tool for the shape of the background you want to create (e.g., circle, rectangle, polygon) # Draw the background shape. # With the shape still selected, from the Element menu, select Fill » Solid . # To insert text, from the Toolbox, select the Text tool .