Page Maker Tutorial

[Maggie Szydlowski]

AdobePagemaker Tutorials: The following are assorted tips and tutorials for Adobe Pagemaker. Credits: desktoppub.about.com and Microsoft.com/education Contents: Page 1, section 1. How to Insert Page Numbers on Master Pages in PageMaker Page 1, section 2. How to Wrap Text Around a Graphic in PageMaker Page 2, section 1. How to Wrap Text Around Text in PageMaker Page 2, section 2. How to Insert a Drop Cap in a PageMaker Document Page 3, section 1. How to Create a Bullet List in a PageMaker Document Page 3, section 2. Using Photo-objects in Adobe Pagemaker and MS Publisher Page 4, section 1. How to Count Words and Characters in PageMaker 1. How to Insert Page Numbers on Master Pages in PageMaker Difficulty Level: Easy PageMaker will automatically number pages in the style you designate when the proper page numbering code is placed on the Master Pages of your document. Here's How: 1. On a Master Page, click on the page or draw a text block where you want to insert a page number. 2. At the point where you want the page number type Ctrl + Alt + P (Windows) or Command + Option + P (Mac). 3. Repeat Step 2 on the opposite Master page. 4. A page number marker will be on each master page -- LM on the left master, RM on the right master. 5. Format the paragraph and page number marker as necessary including adding additional text before or after the page number marker. Tips: 1. Elements on the Master page are visible but not editable on all foreground pages. You'll see actual page numbers on the foreground pages. 2. To omit a page number on some pages turn off display of master page items for that page or cover the number with a white box or create another master page set for pages without page numbers. 2. How to Wrap Text Around a Graphic in PageMaker Difficulty Level: Easy The text wrap feature in PageMaker allows you to place graphics in a document and have the text wrap around that image without covering it (or being covered). A basic text wrap takes only a few clicks. Here's How: 1. Place your graphic object on the page in the position where you want it. It may cover up part of the text, that's OK. 2. With your object selected, choose Element Text wrap... from the menu bar. 3. From the Text Wrap dialog box select the middle icon for Wrap option (the third icon is not available initially until you've customized the text wrap). 4. Choose a Text flow: With Icon 1 text stops at the graphic then continues to next page or column. Icon 2 wraps text to top and bottom only. Icon 3 wraps text completely around in a rectangular wrap (until you modify it). 5. If you know exactly how much space you want between text and object, make adjustments in the Standoff section, otherwise accept the default and click OK. 6. If the text doesn't wrap exactly the way you want grab one of the dotted lines representing the standoff area and pull it in closer to the object or further away until you get the text wrap effect you want. Tips: 1. Select the 'Wrap text on same layer only' box if you don't want to wrap text on other layers around the object. 2. When placing a square/rectangular graphic between two columns of ragged right aligned text, use a slightly smaller standoff on the left side to visually balance the space around the object. 3. Align the bottom of your graphic with the baseline of adjacent text.

MAKER is a genome annotation pipeline that is scalable and can be installed and run on Hopper. The following instructions have steps for installing Maker in your home directory on the cluster and running it. After completing the installation steps, a tutorial for Maker can be found on this page: Maker Tutorial. The examples in the tutorial were used to test the installed Maker.

If you want to Format or customize your table of contents, you can. For example, you can change the font, the number of heading levels, and whether to show dotted lines between entries and page numbers.

For a hands-on guide that steps you through the process of creating a table of contents, download our Table of Contents tutorial. Or, in desktop Word, go to File > New, and search for table of contents.

Adobe InDesign is a software, which is the parts of Adobe Creative Suite and an upgraded version of Aldus Page Maker. Aldus Page Maker is a widely used desktop publishing software (DTP Software), which was later purchased by Adobe. Adobe InDesign software is available for various operating systems, such as Mac, Windows, and many more. This software can be purchased as part of the Adobe Creative Suite or as a standalone product. InDesign's features and functionality are much better in comparison to a word processing software like Microsoft Word. It is the de facto program that can work with large publishing houses and websites. This tutorial presents a detailed overview of the software that will help you to exploit its all functionalities.

Adobe InDesign is an editing software created by the Adobe Company. It is mostly used for printing the document. The InDesign software provides various types of document frames that we can select and do our work on that document. It also contains many tools that are very useful in our document. With the help of these tools, we can do things like color, rectangle, zoom in, and zoom out in our document.

InDesign is the successor of Adobe's PageMaker, which was purchased by Adobe in late 1994 with Aldus's acquisition. By 1998, the feature-rich QuarkXPress version 3.3, released in 1992 and 4.0, was released in 1996, lost the entire professional market of Page Maker. Quark stated to buy Adobe and to divest the combined business of PageMaker to prevent it from antitrust problems.

Adobe declined the bid, and then they started to work on a new page layout app. Aldus had begun the project, and it was codenamed Shuksan. Later, it was named as K2 and published in 1999 as InDesign version 1.0. In 2002, InDesign became the first publishing software for the Mac OS X-native desktop. It received a significant boost in the distribution version 3 by being bundled in the Creative Suite with Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat.

InDesign export files in the Portable Document Format (PDF) of Adobe and is supported multilingually. For text processing, advanced typography with OpenType fonts, advanced transparency feature, optical margin alignment, and cross-platform scripting using JavaScript, it was the first desktop publishing software (DTP) framework to support Unicode.

Subsequent software updates implemented new file formats. The system and its document format are not backward-compatible to support the new features, especially typographic, introduced with InDesign CS. Instead, the .inx format, an XML-based document representation, is backward-compatible with InDesign CS2.

In 2007, Adobe produced InDesign CS3 as universal binary software compatible with native Intel and PowerPC Mac computers, inconveniencing early adopters of Intel-Mac. Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe, declared that Adobe is the first full-line universal application.

Adobe InDesign is a document editing software introduced by Adobe Corporation. Today, it is a trendy application that was developed in 1999. We can download this software by visiting the official website of Adobe. We can use this software for free for seven days. After finishing the free version, we have to buy a subscription of InDesign software on Adobe's official website. This software is available for both Windows and Mac OS.

Step 3: We will be redirected to the page that shows various price tier categories, i.e., Individual, Business, Student, Teacher, and University. We can pick all of them to match our needs.

A workspace is an area where we create and manipulate our documents and files using various elements. These elements include panels, bars, windows, etc. If we want to understand the InDesign workspace, we need to get the most out of InDesign user interface properly. Let's take a short tour of the UI.

In the most InDesign installations, we will see the default user interface that can be seen in the above screen. It is noted that the user interface can be fully customizable. We can divide the InDesign user interface into several panels as follows:

It is shown at the top of the screen next to the Help menu, which facilitates us to set the magnification stage of the paper or to turn on and off the rulers and guides. It also helps us to tile vertically or horizontally various screens. The Br and St Icons respectively stand for Adobe Bridge and Adobe Stock, and depending on our configuration, we may or may not see them.

We can see the long strip below the application button, which is called as Control Panel. It is a quintessential part of the UI. Essentially, it allows us to modify the several features like text formatting, color filling, and a host of context-dependent functions. It is easily accessible and can be floated or docked. We have to make sure that we dock it in a suitable position because it will be used very frequently.

It is a blank document that was generated in the New Dialog box using the default options. In the next chapter, we will read more about the New dialog box. If we properly examine this document, we can see that it is covered by black borders that show the limit of the printed page. The pink guides describe the margins at the top and bottom. The left and right purple guides are column guides.

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