PageMaker: Introduction for Beginners (1 day)

Course Overview

Adobe PageMaker is a powerful page layout application that you can use to create professional looking publications by offering a high degree of control over many aspects of page design. The course covers the basic techniques and skills that will give you a solid understanding of the software as you create documents such as colour newsletters, flyers or booklets. To learn how to use it to its fullest capabilities, you need to understand basic principles and techniques. As you progress through this course, you'll learn these techniques and use them to work with PageMaker efficiently and produce great looking documents.

Audience

• Graphic professionals who need an essential understanding of page layout.
• Self Taught users may also benefit from the many tips and tricks and special exercises.

Skills Gained

By the end of the course the delegate will be able to:

• Create a single-page document containing text and graphics.
• Create the structure for a multiple-page layout to prepare it for adding content.
• Import text and graphics.
• Format text using fonts, sizes, type styles, indents, alignment, and tabs.
• Use styles to format text.
• Use master pages and guides to design a document's layout.
• Add page numbers to a document.
• Wrap text around a graphic.
• Create a booklet
• Create and use templates.

Prerequisites

Although prior use of PageMaker is not a requirement, familiarity with the use of Windows software is essential.

Course Outline

Introduction to DTP Concepts

Creating a Newsletter

• The PageMaker Environment
• Document Setup
• Typing Text and Manipulating Text Blocks
• Basic Text Formatting
• Importing and Manipulating Graphics
• Using Master Pages

Using Text

• Importing Text
• Spacing Text
• Indenting Text
• Using Tabs
• Using Styles
• Using the Story Editor

Using Graphics

• Drawing Shapes
• Applying Colours
• Text Wrapping
• Manipulating Graphics
• Cropping Graphics
• Inline Graphics

Printing with PageMaker

• Creating and Applying Spot Colours
• Updating Links
• Creating a Booklet
• Printing a Proof
• Collecting Files for Output

Master Pages

• Creating a Multi-Page Master
• Page Numbering
• Section breaks

Plug-Ins

• Add Continuation lines
• Drop Caps

Graphics

• Text Wrap Techniques
• Aligning & Distributing Objects
• Using Frames

Libraries

• Create Library files
• Add Images
• Add Text and Links

Using Layers

• Creating Layers
• Stacking Order
• Copying between layers

Using Hyperlinks

• Internal
• External

Table Editor

• Starting Table Editor
• Adjusting widths of columns/rows
• Formatting text in cells
• Cell borders/fills

Creating Templates

• Using Templates
• Drag and Drop Between Documents

PageMaker: Introduction for Beginners (1 day) / APM-11