Plus Plus Pty Ltd

This course covers the basic operation of Pagemaker.

Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• Work with Pagemaker's menus, toolbox and palettes
• Create documents with Pagemaker
• Code CGI/Perl scripts for accepting form submissions.

This course is aimed at users who need to quickly create, modify and enhance Pagemaker documents. It is suitable for those using Pagemaker 6.5, 6.5 Plus and version 7.0, on either a PC or Macintosh.

Familiarity and experience with PCs and mouse. Familiarity with a word-processing program such as Microsoft Word is an advantage but not essential. No experience with PageMaker is required.

Pagemaker basics

Concepts
What is Desktop publishing?
Where PageMaker fits into the picture
What other tools would I work with?
The PageMaker environment
Preferences

Working with Type
Text blocks
Text frames
Moving, resizing and deleting
The Story Editor

Working with Characters
Fonts
Character attributes
The Control palette

Working with Paragraphs
Paragraph attributes
The Control palette
Tabs, types and leaders

Working with Characters
Fonts
Character attributes
The Control palette

Graphics

Drawing objects
Rectangles, ellipses and polygons
Modifying default attributes
Changing the stroke
Changing the fill

Placing images
Image types
Working with Raster images
Working with Vector images
Inline graphics

Colour basics
The color palette
Creating a new colour
Working with Vector images
Inline graphics

Layout

Drawing objects
Rectangles, ellipses and polygons
Modifying default attributes
Changing the stroke
Changing the fill

Placing images
Image types
Working with Raster images
Working with Vector images
Inline graphics

Advanced type

Styles
Creating styles
Using styles
Importing styles

Text wrapping
Irregular wrapping
Changing wrap handles

Contact us if you have a specialised requirement.