Introduction
of Graphic Design
Select the frame, choose file > Place .
Select the file you want to place .select the place with line frame
option along .with other place option & then click ok.
Note: if you
choose the place command without having select a frame , or ,if you do not
select the place within frame option you can still add the imported file to a
frame after you click ok in the place dialog box : simply click the loaded text
or graphic icon on the frame you want the implored content to occupy.
Interlocution
of tools
The icons in the toolbox represent the tools you use in page Maker .To
select the tools click it if the toolbox restricts your view of your work drag
its title box to more it choose
window>Hide tools to close the toolbox .
Control palate
To open or close the control palate choose window >show control
palate. The control palate appears in front of the publication and story
windows you can more it by dragging the bar at the left edge of the palate .
Click an option to activate it (A
selected value or a highlighted bar
above or below an option indicates that
the option is actives .)
View
Use commands on the view menu to display the page or pasteboards at
preset views: A page retains its view while you the view again.
View setting serve various purposes .use fit in window when you need to
click the overall composition of a page or at two page spread use actual size
to see text and graphic as they will appear when printed and choose view
>zoom to 200% size or 400% size when precision is imperative .
Paragraph
A paragraph is a collection of character and paragraph formatting
attributes that you can apply to a paragraph in one step. You can specify every
aspect of a paragraph including typeface and teyesize, line spacing
,alignment , and indents within the
style ,paragraph style can, save considerably time when you apply and text
formatting and they provide a consistent
look to you publication .
Select object
You use the pointer tool to select object .you can select a single object or multiple object and modify
all at once , when object overlap ,you can select them through the stack of
object.
Zoom
Use the zoom tool to magnify or reduce the display of any in your
publication you can also double .click the tool to actual size as you double
click the tool to go file in window view .
Select to zoom tool
The pointer becomes a magnifying with a plus sing in its center
indicating that the zoom tool will magnify you view of the image .
Keyboard shortcut
Once you understand the basic of adding index entries use the use the
shortcuts. In this section to speed up your work .
Introduction of guide line
Use the layout > column guides command to add or change columns on
master pages and in publications .You can also set up column when you first
create a new master using the master page options commend on the master page
palate menu.
Any guides that you create on a mater page are auto played on the
publication page to which the master is applied, However you can select and
more making master page guides from
within a publication page you do not need to do this on the master
page ,as you would when making adjustments to text and graphics if you adjust
master page guides on or publication page or add new ruler to a publication
page ,page maker considers those guides to be customized .
You can restore the mater page guides and delete the custom guides by
choosing layout >copy master guides this command dose not affect master page
items that print such as page numbers ,and is available only if have customized
the guides on the current page by morning them from their original positions
defined on a master page. the command
also has no effect on text and graphics
already on the page .
Lock and unlock ruler guides
Choose view >lock guides
If you change such publication buyout attributes as margins or page size
locking guides can interfere with page maker’s ability to adjust objects on the
page .
To place a ruler guide
Move the pointer over a ruler and then drag a ruler guides from the
ruler if the rulers aren’t visible choose view show rulers.
Using the zero point
The zero point is the position at which the zero on the vertical and
horizontal rulers intersect. When you start a new single sided publication,
page maker puts the zero point at the to left
corner of the page .when you work with facing pages .the default zero
point is at the intersection of the lop
inside edges of the facing pages you can easily more the zero point to measure
distance from a specify part of your page or to customize the way oversized
page print to avoid accidentally moving the zero point after you set it , you
con lock it in place.
To lock the zero point
Choose view >zero lock
Scrolling within a window
You can use the scroll bars along
the bottom and right sides of the active window to control what displays in the publication window . You can show or
hide the scroll bar any time . in addition you can reposition the page quickly by
draggin the mouse. This thechinque works
in layout .
View only
Choose view>show/hide scroll bar
Measurment system unit and setting up rules each publication window include
horizontal and vertical rulers that extend along the top and left borders of
the wind you can display rules when you need them and hide when you want more
room on the screen to vied a publicat . the rulers must be visible in order to
manually create ruler guides . which are nonprinting extensions of the ruler .
when you need to precisely position in text object and graphic on a page .use
the ruler increments .the increments show on the rulers deeply on the size and
resolution of your screen . the unit of measure you specify . and the display
size you choose you can make any item you place resize or more align to the nearst
intersection of tick marks on the invisible grid defined by the rulers-
The unit of measure used
for most measurements in the publication you specify tabs margins indents
and Other measurements
according to the measurements system reflected on the horizontal ruler.
You usually work
with one unit of meansure throughout a publication but you can change to another unit measure
At any time
Guides and objects already sitioned
using the original, measurement system will stay in place and might not align
with the alteved ruler tick marks .
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Document set
up
While rearranging
page , you can make . the publication
double sided , single sided or facing
pages in the sort page dialog box click options and select the option you want
when double sided pages become the lift margin and the outside margin becomes
the right margin in they care you can have pagemaker move all elements to fit within new inside and outside margins
by deselection Don’t move Elements
REVRT
Choose the >Revert command click ok in the alert massage appears .The
revert command can also restore you last mini saved verson a verson of the life
that pagemaker saves automatically whenever you move to a different page inert
or delete a page charge the clipboard setup or print other operations that
cause a minisave include switching
between layout view and story editor using the clipboard, and clicking the
active page icon.
Place
Position the loaded text icon at a corner of the area where you want to
place text hold bown the mouse button and drag to difine the text block release
the mouse button.
Text flows into the defined area if there is move text then fits in the
block you defined and arrow appears in the button window shade handle.
If there is more text to place click the arrow in the button window shale
handle is empty. When there is no move text to place.
IMPORT
Create a word list in page maker on in any application that creates or
saves text only files separate each word in the list by a carriage return. space,
or tab.
Choose file >Import
On import using algorithm hyphenates the word encircling to the built in
algorithm (dictionary editor does not apply the algorithm to words to which
you’ve already addes libels )
Import words already in dictionary overwrite word that are already in
the user dictionary with words that hare the same speling . if this option is deselected any words in your in your list that are
already in the user dictionary will not be overwritten.
Link manager
You can modify how linked object link and update objects with links can
be placed linked OLE objects , on the macintos
,placed or subscribed edition files .
Do not confuse links with hyperlinks page maker .for information on
hyperlinks see about hyper text links . use the links manager link in to and
link options .use these commands to update linked text or graphics to
reestablish links we external files are moved from their original folder
publication ,and to minimize the size of the publication by storing large
graphic images externally .
Note : use th3e
link into command or option to view or modify o selected objects link to its
orginal files.
Choose file >links manager .
Element menu
grouping & ungroping
you can combine several objects into group so that the objects are treated
as a unite . this allows you to move or transform a number of object together
for example : you might group the objects in a logo desion so that you can move
and resize the logo as one unite .
Note :when you
mask selects object page maker can automatically group them for more information ,see masking
objects .
1.
using the pointer tool press shift and select the
objects to be grouped .
one or move of
the objects you select can be a group but if you select tow or more groups note that all selects
object from a single unnested group .
choose element
> group
choose object
ratain the changes you most while the objects were grouped .
mask &
unmask
masking is a
way of covering part of an object so that only a portion of it appear through a
shape draw with the rectangle ellipse or polygon tool. In pagemaker you make
object by positioning the mask or masking objects on the objects you want to
mask selecting
both objects and choosing the electing >
mask command pagemaker simultaneously.
Gropes the selected objects if you press shift or option and then choose. Element >mask and groups .
choose Element
> mask
select the
masking object or the masked object .
choose Elenent
> unmask .
choose Element
unmask and ungroup
Utilities
menu
Find
In story editor ,you can seach in a story
or select a range of text if you want to limit your changes to that section
change all searches for and replace all
occurrences of the found text to text for make display an alert message.
If find what or
change to is under lined in either the find or change dialog box one or more
text attributes have been.
Checking
spelling and Grammar
You can check the spelling and grammar in
a selected range of text in all text in a selected range of text in all text in
the active rang in all stories in a publication or in all stories in all open
publication pagemaker highlinghts miss pelled or unknow words typed twice (such as the ) and
words with possible capitalization errors .
If you are checking all open publications pagemaker automatically search all stories in those publications.
Click start to
begin checking the spelling
In story editor
shoose > spelling
BOOK
Assembling
multiple publications into a book
associates them as a whole creating an inkle and a labile of confounds
and printing the book while retaining the ability to work with each publication
independency creating a book helps keep publication file sizes relatively small
so you can work more efficiently assemble a book by creaking a book list inane
of they publications you want to include in the book such as the table of
contents or the index.
Index
entries
Once as entry is cerates you car select its index maker and then use
utilities> Index Enter to edit or update the information you initially specified.
When you create
index endives in the add index.
Entry dialog
box, you enter each topic, specify whether or a cross refer once to another
index entry and tell page maker how to
sort topics. You can also specify a page range for your entry or the kind of
cross reference you want, and change the type style on the page references and
cross references click insertion point of the text you want to index (or select
the text you want to use for use the index entry)
Managing windows
You can each story in its own window see moving between story editor and
layout view.
In story view choose
story close story to close the story window finish working on a story. When the
story has already been placed close story closes the story window are open
returns to layout view PageMaker auto matically ret lows the story within
existing text objects if other story windows are open page maker displays the
next story or managing windows.
Balance
column
Sometimes you want the columns on a page
to be of equal size so that their top and bottom edges align if you’re used
text block to contain the text. PageMaker can aromatically calculi ate the
average ling of selected columns and then resize hem to that length . pagemaker
calculate the arerage length of select
columns to that length (right)1 . use pointer tool to select two or more
columns (or text block) with in the same story .
Choose
utilities >plug-ins >balance columns
Select an
alignment option and specify where you want leftover lines added when among the
selected column and then click ok .
Bullet and
Numbering
Once you’ve formatted a hanging indent you can use the following
technique add bullets or consecutive number to a set of consecutive paragraph
of a certain style or to every paragraph in the selected story. Make sure that
your numbering scheme is final before using this technique if the paragraphs
change, the numbers are not updated automatically.
Click an insertion point in the first paragraph you want to change or
select the range of paragraphs .
Choose
utilities>plug-ins >Bullets and Numbering .
Drop caps
Page maker lets you quickly add a drop cap a large initial character to
one or more paragraphs at a time . the drop caps baseline falls one or more
line s below the base line of the first
lines of a paragraph to create the drop cap effect page maker resizes and
subscripts the initial character in the page maker also inserts tabs at the
start of each line breaks at the end of each line that wraps around the drop
–cap character .(line breaks prerent the tab at the start of each line from
flowing back to the previous line .)
Click an insertion point any where in the paragraph you want to begin
with a drop cap .
Choose
utilities >plug-ins >drop cap.
Built
booklet
The built booklet plug-in lets you create publications in which pages
are arranged for printing multiple page spreads . the arrangement of page
printed on a single sheet or form is called an imposition . the build booklet
plug-ins creates multiple page spreads that print on a single sheet and assume
the correct page when folded .when you
stack ,bin and trim the folded double
side booklets the result is a single book with correct pagination
Different
palates
Introduction
of color palate
In page maker for macos you can use the apple color picker to edit
colors .choose window >show colors select the color you want to edit and
choose macos colors picker from the colors palette menue choose window >show
colors.
Introduction
of style palate
You can press command with colors palette , select and ,then press f1 to the first style in the second styles
palette ,press f2 to apply the second style in the palette ,and so on to view the
name the style applied to each paragraph in story editor ,choose story >
Display style name as the publication default using the file >preference
>General command .
Introduction
of master page palate
Master pages are automatically applied to newly created pages , but now
this happens is delermined by the command you use to add the new pages the file
>Document setup lets you increase the number pages in the publication and
when you click ok page maker inserts the new pages at the publication and
applies the document master to them you
press the ctrl+shift+G
GoodLuck
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