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Adobe PageMaker - Intermediate

1 day course

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Adobe PageMaker is a powerful page layout application you can use to create professional publications. In this course, you will learn advanced techniques and skills as you create a full-page color advertisement for publication in a magazine, and a catalog with tables that you will prepare for both print output and as an Acrobat PDF file designed for desktop printing or electronic distribution via the Web. Although PageMaker is a robust application that offers fine control over typography, page layout, colors, and printing, not all of its features are on the surface, so you may be missing out on the best ways to create professional-caliber publications. Additionally, you need some background information in each of those areas to fully exploit them and to create as polished a document as possible. As you create the documents in this course, you'll delve deeply into each of these areas, enabling you to work efficiently and get great results.

Course Topics:

(for a full detailed outline, visit our PDF link above)

Formatting Using Advanced Typography

  • Choosing Typefaces
  • Serif vs. Sans-Serif Fonts
  • Type Color and Weight
  • Choosing an Appropriate Font
  • Balancing Columns
  • Aligning Type: Left, Right, Center, and Justify
  • Aligning Type to a Grid
  • Understanding and Working with Kern Type
  • Expert Kerning and Tracking
  • Hyphenating Text
  • Controlling Hyphenation
  • Discretionary Hyphens
  • Creating Type Effects
  • Enhancing Type

Applying Color Management and Printing

  • Defining CMYK and Spot Colors
  • Desktop Printing vs. Commercial Printing
  • RGB Color vs. CMYK Color
  • Spot Color Separations
  • The Color Management Workflow
  • Setting Up and Using Color Management
  • Installing a Color Management Profile
  • Assigning Color Profiles
  • Installing PPD Files for Printers and Imagesetters
  • Creating Printer Styles
  • Printing Color Separations
  • Halftoning
  • Controlling Inks

Applying Advanced Layout Techniques

  • Using Graphics Frames
  • Selecting Frame Content
  • Threading Text Frames
  • Using Layers
  • Placing Items in Layers
  • Adjusting Layout Automatically
  • Bleeds
  • Layout Adjustment Preferences
  • The Picas Measurement System
  • Creating Multiple Master Pages
  • Creating a Bilingual Layer

Creating Tables

  • Creating a New Table
  • Importing Table Text
  • Selecting Text
  • Formatting Text in a Table
  • Formatting a Table
  • Grouping Cells
  • Adjusting Gutters
  • Adjusting Row Height and Column Width
  • Changing Borders and Shading
  • Using Tables in PageMaker
  • Exporting Tables as EPS Graphics
  • OLE Linking and Embedding

Creating Acrobat PDF Documents

  • Exporting a PDF Document
  • PDF Export Setting Categories
  • Saving Setting Styles and Job Names
  • Creating a PDF for Print
  • Compression Artifacts
  • Setting Up Hyperlinks
  • Defining Destinations
  • Creating a PDF for the Web