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Adobe PageMaker Training UK

LEVEL:

Introduction : Intermediate : Advanced

COURSE LENGTH:

1 day

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COURSE OVERVIEW:

Adobe PageMaker an excellent page layout package for in-house desktop publishing.
Adobe PageMaker is easy to use for creating professional high-quality publications such as brochures and newsletters.

The course outlines below set out the full range of topics you can choose to cover during your on-site training course, and you can build your course around your exact training requirements, or any specific projects you or your staff are working on at present.
You will find that this approach makes our courses the most effective and productive use of your training budget available today.

Introduction Level

Setting document preferences
Tour of the screen & the working
environmentSetting document preferences

Document magnification & changing
viewsIntroduction to the Toolbox

Creating a new document
Setting page options
Saving PageMaker files

Setting the zero point
Using guidelines
Using x & y references
Using the proxy box
Using the Control Palette

Creating master pages
Using multiple master pages
Specifying columns & gutters
Creating headers & footers
Re-laying pages to adopt
new masters

Typing in text
Importing external text files
Understanding & manipulating
text blocks
Creating text frames
Setting frame options
Manipulating text frames
Applying strokes & fills
Introduction to typography
Typographic terms
Picas & points
Measuring type
Using:
fonts, type style, & type size
leading & spacing

Formatting paragraphs
Setting paragraph alignment
Setting bulleted paragraphs
Setting drop caps
Setting tabs
Setting paragraph rules

Managing frame text flow
Isolating text from frames
Attaching text to frames
Managing page text flow
Flowing imported text files through
pages automatically
Manually placing imported text files

Intermediate Level

Setting paragraph styles
Modifying paragraph styles
Applying paragraph styles
Applying paragraph styles in
the Story Editor
Breaking links to paragraph styles
Copying paragraph styles into new
documents

Automatic page numbering
Using Story Editor
Checking spelling
Find & changing text

Controlling hyphenation
Drawing & editing lines
Modifying line settings

Setting preferences
Creating templates
Setting frame place holders

Creating/accessing libraries
Adding elements to libraries
Specifying library attributes
Viewing in slide show view

Auto leading
Proportional leading
Top of caps leading
Baseline leading

Importing graphics
Creating inline graphics
Sizing & cropping graphics
Proportionally scaling images
Rotating & skewing graphics
Manipulating graphics
Masking graphics
Controlling how text wraps around
graphics

Using plug-ins
Grouping & ungrouping
Locking & unlocking
Hiding & showing invisibles

Working with colour
Using the colour palette
Process & spot colour
Choosing Pantone colours
Applying & editing colour

Printing files

Advanced Level

Creating & using a baseline grid
Locking text to the baseline grid

Controlling hyphenation
Inserting discretionary hyphens
Inserting special characters &
non-breaking characters
Building & adding words to
user dictionaries

Kerning:
Kerning text manually
Editing kerning tables

Tracking:
Tracking text manually
Editing tracking tables
Other paragraph typography options
Widow & orphan control

Using Table Editor
Creating & editing tables
Changing rows & columns
Formatting cells
Formatting text in cells
Saving tables
Exporting tables

Paste multiple
Paste special

Managing long documents
Using the sort page command
Creating a document grid
using grid manager
Saving & loading grids

Looking at a range of plug-ins
Using some on-line scripts

Compiling a PageMaker book list
Adding & removing chapters
Copying the booklist to all chapters
Generating a table of contents
Editing a table of contents

Creating & editing an index
Indexing & PDF considerations
Viewing an index
Creating cross references
Editing cross references

Layers:
Creating & editing layers
Customising layer properties

PageMaker links:
Linking text & graphic files
Breaking & re-establishing links
Link status indicators
Creating hyperlinks in PageMaker

Using the insert object command
Managing imported graphics
Customising TIFF images
Creating inline graphics
Converting inline graphics to
independent graphics

Working with colour
Creating process colours
Specifying spot colour
Choosing Pantone colours
Saving info for Service Provider
Printing PageMaker files
Creating PostScript files
Creating PDF files

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