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Adobe PageMaker - Advanced

1 day course

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Although PageMaker 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. At its core, this course teaches you how to manage complicated layouts more efficiently. This includes learning more effective ways to work with graphics and type, as well as techniques to establish trapping in a document so colors print the way you want. In addition, you will learn techniques for working with long documents, such as linking documents together in a book and creating a table of contents and indexes. Lastly, you will learn to easily import and export HTML from PageMaker documents.

Course Topics:

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

Efficiently Laying Out Pages

  • Applying a Master Page to Several Pages At Once
  • Creating Guides with the Grid Manager
  • Copying Guides
  • Applying, Saving, and Fine-Tuning  Grids
  • Manipulating Graphics Efficiently
  • Setting Nudge Preferences
  • Precisely Positioning Objects
  • Manipulating Objects in a Group
  • Duplicating Graphics
  • Power Pasting
  • Masking
  • Automate Tasks with Scripts

Advanced Type Techniques

  • Drop Caps
  • Using Paragraph Rules
  • Positioning Rules
  • Reverse Type Styles
  • Working with Cap Height Size
  • Running Headers and Footers
  • Defining Header and Footer Content
  • Continuation Lines

Working with Imported Graphics

  • Vector Graphics
  • EPS Graphics
  • Raster Graphics
  • TIFF Images
  • EPS Images
  • DCS Images
  • Altering Imported Graphics
  • Setting and Altering Halftones
  • Adjusting Contrast and Lightness
  • Applying Color to Grayscale Images
  • Saving a Page as a Graphic

Trapping

  • Trapping Concepts
  • Why is Trapping Necessary?
  • Choke vs. Spread
  • What PageMaker Can and Cannot Do
  • Trapping a Document
  • Setting Trapping Options
  • Controlling Ink Density Values
  • Avoiding Trapping Problems

Managing Long Documents

  • Creating a Table of Contents
  • Naming Strategies for Styles
  • Creating an Index
  • First-Level Index Entries
  • Secondary- and Tertiary-Level Index Entries
  • Cross-References
  • Generating an Index
  • Building a Book
  • Generating Lists and Indexes for a Book

Importing and Exporting HTML

  • HTML Overview
  • HTML Limitations
  • Graphic Formats
  • Importing HTML
  • Setting HTML Import Options
  • Generating HTML Files
  • Exporting Stories to HTML
  • Modifying Publications for HTML
  • Exporting Page Layouts to HTML
  • Manually Exporting Graphics
  • Exporting Pages