Advanced PageMaker 7.0

Objectives

To learn techniques that speed up the creation of more complex documents and exploit the typographic control offered by PageMaker 7.0. Also, to consider the benefits offered by a greater understanding of some of the more involved or obscure PageMaker features.


Pre-requisites:

A good working knowledge of PageMaker.


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


Recap on advanced typography


· Tracking and kerning
· The Tracking and Kerning Editor
· Setting up a baseline grid


Advanced graphics work


· Using in-line graphics
· Masking and unmasking graphics


Using Adobe Table


· Use of the bundled Table Editor utility
· Creating, editing and formatting tables
· Importing data into and exporting data from a table


Long document features


· The Build Booklet feature
· Page sorting
· Indexing


Linking to external files


· Links to graphic and text files including automatic update
· Embedding paragraph style tags in text files for automatic formatting
· Using OLE








Using Data Merge


· The benefits of data merge
· Planning a data merge
· Setting up the data source file and the target publication
· Merging records


Building interactivity into PageMaker documents


· Using the Hyperlinks feature
· Creating PDF files that feature a Table of Contents and PDF bookmarks


Plug-Ins and Scripts


· The PageMaker Script technology
· Some simple plug-ins e.g. column balancing, bullets and numbering, drop capitals and headers and footers