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Adobe PageMaker 7 - Introduction

 

 

Course Length: One Day
Fees: Training at Client Offices: One delegate: £495 per-day + VAT

Additional delegates attending: £100 each per-day + VAT

Overview: Adobe PageMaker 7.0 is an excellent design layout program for businesses & professionals who want to create high-quality publications such as brochures, newsletters and other buseinss documents. PageMaker incorporates precision layout and intelligent kerning (letter spacing) plus it includes numerous templates, graphics, and intuitive design tools to give you precise control over your document look and feel so you can produce visual communications that are both powerfully effective and highly creative.

This course explains the fundamentals of PageMaker 7.0 including how to produce well-designed documents quickly and easily. Special emphasis is placed on the principles of good design in DTP, as well as giving a thorough grounding in the essentials of operating the package.

Document Creation

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Creating a new publication

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Changing the view of a publication

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Setting up horizontal and vertical rulers

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Working with guides

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Specifying columns

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Importing, formatting and positioning text and graphic elements

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Working with colour and colour tints

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Using the drawing tools

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Printing as a PDF

Working with Type

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Paragraph specifications

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Column breaks

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Attaching rules to text

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Using the control palette

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Using Tracking and Kerning

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Creating and importing style sheets

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Resizing, reflecting and rotating a text block

Images

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Types of Images

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Positioning Images in Publications

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Cropping and Distorting Images

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Image Control

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Drawing Tools

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Lines, Rectangles, Circles and Polygons

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Images and Text

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Text Flow Options

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Text Wrap

Templates

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Setting a default measurement system

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Setting template column and guides

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Creating, saving and opening a template

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Selecting and applying spot colours

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Creating a tint of a spot colour

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Creating a custom colour palette

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Grouping and ungrouping objects

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Looking at Printing options

Layout & Master Pages

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Creating a Master page

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Creating the layout grid

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Adding tints and colours to the Colours palette

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Using the Control palette to manipulate objects

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Specifying automatic page numbering

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Autoflowing text

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Kerning and tracking text

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Creating and editing custom styles

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