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| Page size / dimensions | The size of a new Pagemaker document can be set by choosing from the list under the page size pull down menu or by typing a size into the dimensions boxes. Remember to set the page orientation. |
| Double-sided / Facing pages | When double sided is selected side margins are labelled inside and outside, otherwise they become left and right. Selecting facing pages ensures that both pages of a double page spread are shown on screen together. |
| Number of pages | If the number of pages the publication will have is known they can be created now. Pages can be added and removed later. |
| Margins | Pagemaker allows the user to create margins for their reference. Pagemaker margins are not the same as a computer printer's margins. |
| Compose to printer | In the Windows version of Pagemaker there is an additional option to specify the printer to be used to print the final version of the publication. |
| Save | File>Save As>User Name disk drive. And SAVE OFTEN |
| pasteboard | (where text and graphics are arranged) reflect the traditional way a designer worked using a pair of scissors and glue. The pasteboard stores items for later use. |
| page icons | these show the master pages (L for left and R for right) and the regular pages in a publication. |
| view>show rulers | The publication window also has rulers to assist in the alignment of objects on the page.The rulers can be hidden and made visible again by selecting |
| scroll bars | To change the part of the page or pasteboard that displays at the current view or magnification level, scroll within the window using |
| File | contains commands for creating new documents, opening existing documents and printing. |
| Edit | contains the commands for Cut, Copy, Paste, Select All |
| Layout | The layout menu contains the column guides command to assist with the laying out of a publication. Commands for adding, removing and sorting pages are also found here. |
| Type | The type menu contains all the commands for formatting text. |
| Element | The element menu contains commands for formatting graphical elements. The line and fill styles are set here |
| Utilities | The utilities menu contains all of Pagemaker's indexing and table of contents commands as well as the plug-ins. |
| View | The view menu contains the zooming tools and commands to hide or show the guides and rulers. |
| Window | The window menu is where Pagemaker palettes are located. |
| The pointer | The pointer tool is used to select, move, and resize text blocks and graphics. When an object is selected 'handles' (below) will appear at its corners. To move an object click on it and drag. To resize an object first select it, then click on one of its handles and drag. To resize an object but retain its original proportion, drag any of its corner handles whilst holding down the shift key on the keyboard. |
| To select more than one object | click on the first object then hold down the shift key on the keyboard and click on the second (etc.). |
| The text tool | The text tool is used to type, select and edit text. Double clicking on the text tool icon calls up the type specs dialogue box where the size, font, colour and leading (etc.) of text can be set. |
| The ellipse tool | For drawing circles and ellipses. Double clicking on the ellipse tool icon calls up the fill and line dialogue box where some of the shape's properties can be set. |
| The rectangle tool | For drawing rectangles and squares. Double clicking on the rectangle tool icon will allow the creation of rectangles with rounded corners. |
| The unconstrained line tool | For drawing straight lines. |
| The constrained line tool | For drawing straight lines that are constrained to multiples of 45 degrees. Double clicking on both the constrained and unconstrained line tool icon calls up the line dialogue box allowing some of the line's properties to be defined. |
| The polygon tool | The polygon tool is used to create polygons and star shapes. Double clicking on the polygon tool icon allows the user to select the number of sides the polygon is to have. |
| The magnifying tool | The magnifying (or zoom) tool is used to magnify or reduce an area of the page. Select the tool and click on the page to zoom in (option/alt clicking zooms out). To zoom in on a specific area, select the tool, hold down the mouse and drag over the area. |
| The rotate tool | To rotate an object select it using the pointer tool, pick rotate tool from the toolbox, click on the page and drag with the mouse. Release the mouse when the object has been rotated to the correct position. |
| The cropping tool | The cropping tool is used to trim graphics that have been imported into Pagemaker from other pieces of software (such as Photoshop). Click on one of an imported graphics handles and drag to crop. Clicking and dragging on a cropped image with the cropping tool pans the image within its new cropped size. |
| The frame tools | shapes that hold text. |
| To delete an object | select it with the pointer tool and hit the delete/backspace key on the keyboard. |
| The colour palette | window>show colours |
| More colours can be added using | the define colours... command under the utilities menu. To define a new colour select utilities>define colours..., click new, give the colour a name and either drag the sliders or pick a colour from one of the colour libraries (from the libraries pull out menu). |
| The colour palette is used | to colour text and graphics |
| computer monitors display colours using | red, green and blue |
| printers usually use the colors | cyan, yellow, magenta and black inks. |
| The control palette | window>show control palette |
| If text is selected the control palette allows | font, size, style and leading (etc.) to be modified |
| if a graphic is selected the control palette allows it to be | it to be repositioned, resized and rotated (etc.) |
| A master page will typically contain | basic design elements such as headers, footers and page numbers. Master pages can also contain non-printing guides. |
| Margin guides | Margin guides Margins guides are defined in the Document setup dialogue box (file > document setup). |
| Column guides | These serve as boundaries for text that is placed between them. Every page has at least one column but more can be selected using layout>column guides. Column guides can be dragged with the pointer tool to make columns of unequal size. |
| Ruler guides | Ruler guides are non-printing lines that help in the alignment of objects on a page. To get either a horizontal or vertical ruler guide, click on the horizontal or vertical ruler, hold the mouse down and drag a guide out from the ruler. |
| Rules Guides can be hidden using | view>hide guides |
| Text can be created in | Pagemaker or imported from a Word Processor such as Microsoft Word |
| create some text select the | text tool on the toolbox, click on your page and start typing |
| Pagemaker automatically creates text boxes that fill the whole page (or column width) when | the text tool is selected and the mouse is clicked on the page. |
| To create a text box of a particular size select | the text tool and click on the page and drag, then start typing (below). |
| To import text from a saved word processing file select | >place and navigate through the computer's directory structure to find the file then click OK. |
| To change the size of a text block select it with the pointer tool and drag | one of its corner handles |
| A story is | text that Pagemaker recognises as a single unit. |
| window shades | When a text block is selected using the pointer tool |
| An empty windowshade handle at the top of a text block indicates | the beginning of a story |
| empty windowshade handle at the bottom of a text block indicates | the end of a story |
| A plus sign in a windowshade handle indicates | that the text block is threaded to another text block containing the same story |
| a red down arrow in a bottom windowshade handle indicates | that there is more text in the story to be placed but no remaining text blocks in which to place it. |
| manual text flow | When a text block reaches the bottom of a page (or column) the flow of text stops and a red arrow is placed in the bottom windowshade if there is more text to place. |
| text to be flowed from one page to the next automatically until all of the story has been placed. | layout>autoflow |
| To modify text in Pagemaker it must first be selected | True |
| select text within a text block, | select the text tool from the toolbox |
| Font | The font sub-menu allows the type face of a piece of text to be changed by choosing a new one from the list of installed fonts. |
| Size | The size sub-menu allows the font size to be amended. Choose other if the required size is not displayed in the list of options. |
| Leading | Leading sets the vertical space in which text is placed. By default the leading is set to automatic, to make lines of text closer together or further apart choose a leading value from the list. |
| Type style | Allows text to be made bold, italic, outline etc. |
| Expert Kerning | Kerning is used to fix particular pairs of letters that draw attention to themselves by being too close or too far apart. |
| Expert Tracking | Tracking determines the amount of space between letters and words. Useful for making text fit in a defined space on a page. |
| Character | The character command calls up a type specification dialogue box which allows many characteristics of a portion of text to be modified. |
| Paragraph | This command enables paragraphs to be indented and blank space to be added both before and after a paragraph. Widows and orphans are also controlled here in order to keep a specified number of lines together at the beginning or end of a threaded text block. |
| Indents and tabs | Allows the creation and modification of tabs. |
| Alignment | Allows text to be aligned to the left, right, centre or justified. |
| Style | Styles can be created for headings, sub-headings, main paragraphs etc. If a document needs the type face of all of its headings changing and styles have been used, only the heading style will need to be changed rather than each heading. This is especially useful in long documents as changing the type face of every heading, for example, can be very time consuming. |
| When placing large Graphics and asked if a complete copy should be included always answer | NO |
| To display high resolution graphics in PageMaker choose | file>preferences>general |
| Pagemaker's control palette changes depending on the type of object selected. | True |
