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This adjusts the page numbering scheme (roman numerals, arabic numbers, etc.)
interface
Your document will then be displayed, blank, with all your preferences loaded. Take a moment to familiarize yourself with the palettes and interface items.
Tool Palette
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Lets create the other two styles that we need: Caption and Body Copy. If you are still in the Define Styles window, then click New and title each style (you can also do this by clicking on the sticky note at the bottom of the style palette ). Choose your settings, and exit the menu.
NOTE: A few general rules of thumb for font styles and layout: The headline copy is larger, in bold, uses a sans serif font (a font without those little flags on the letters so that it looks straight and clean like Helvetica), and sometimes is really wild, using unconventional fonts. Body copy is generally a smaller font, in normal or book format, is a serif font (a font with flags on the letters, like Times or Palatino), and has a first line indent of about 0.5 inches or space between paragraphs of 0.3 inches or so. Captions are generally justified (instead of left align or centered), smaller and bolder versions of the body copy style without indents.
master pages
You may notice at the bottom left corner of the screen there is a string of icons. These icons stand for the pages of your document: the L is the left page master, the R is the right page master, and the numbers correspond to each successive printable document page. Sometimes you may want to have items that repeat throughout the document, such as page numbers or PAGE 3
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page numbers
Page numbers are one of those things that are used all the time and can be rather a pain in the butt to do if you do not use the master pages. Lets select the text tool and draw a small box on the bottom right corner of the left page. Now, with the blinking cursor, it is time to select the type for the page numbers. It is easiest (and most uniform for layout purposes) to just use the Body Copy style, but any formatting will do. PageMaker has a special key combination to signal a changing page numbering element: cmdopt-P. In your text box, insert a page numbering scheme and it should appear as LM. Select the pointer and copy the text block once with Edit and then Copy, and Edit and then Paste (cmd-C; cmd-V). Move this new block to the bottom right corner of the right page. Notice that the text changes to RM. Voila! Page numbers are done for the entire document, no matter how many pages you add, delete or rearrange!
columns
It usually helps design quite a bit to have a column structure to your document. So we are going to apply one to the text we have already placed, and now that we know what master pages are, we can apply this structure to the entire document so that it looks uniform, like it belongs together. Go to the Layout menu and select Column Guides... (there is no shortcut). Set the number of columns to 6, accept the default space between columns and select OK. Since we want the entire document to look uniform, we do not want to select the set right and left pages separately option. You should now have six columns on both pages. Return to page one by selecting the icon on the screens bottom left. Notice that the text box with our text doesnt quite fit in a column. With the pointer, adjust the text so that there are two empty columns to the left of it.
placing text
Now, we are ready to place some text in our empty document and apply some of our outrageous styles. Usually, you are going to type your stories and all text outside of PageMaker. This is a very good idea! PageMakers text editing tools are basically pathetic and are only good for changing styles and other rudimentary editing. If you import from programs like Word or WordPerfect, then be sure to save your file in Rich Text Format (RTF) or just plain text (TXT). Using RTF maintains italics, underlines, bolds, indents, tabs, etc. that you have setup already within your document. TXT format just provides crude ASCII text, which is especially nice if you are going to reformat the whole bloody thing anyway. PAGE 4
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Grab the text again by clicking on the red box and clicking again in the next column. NOTE: when it comes to text, it is important to realize that each time a new document is placed within PageMaker, it makes a new story. So, if you want something to be a continuous article, it should not be cut and pasted into another text block. Fragmenting stories in separate blocks will cause headaches and frustration.
editing text
Now that we have placed the text, it might look a little strange. So we are going to apply our styles. Return to the first page. Click on the text with the pointer and select the Edit menu and then the Edit Story command (cmd-E). This will open up a new window with your text. This is the best place to edit text, because the entire story is in one place and not strewn throughout the entire document. The text should have several paragraphs with titles for each. Click the pointer onto the first headline and then click on the Headline style from the Styles window. The type should not change fonts on the screen, PAGE 5
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text adjustments
Now that we have our copy, we need to do a headline. Create a text block and type Quark Rules. Now highlight the text with the text tool. We need to set up the font styles and other settings to make this text really stick out as the headline. Use the Master Palette at the bottom of the screen to change the font to Eras Bold. Now set the Bold option (cmd-Shift-B) to make it even more bold and set the point size to 170. Make the text Small Caps (cmd-shift-H). You may now have to extend the text handles to make the text legible. Do that now. Now lets rotate the text so it will fill the nifty space we made on the left of the page. Select the pointer tool and click on the headline. Now use the rotate tool in the Master Palette type in 90 and press enter. You may have to zoom out to see what you are doing. Use the zoom tool and press option as you click to zoom out. Center the text by going to the Type menu, select Alignment, and then Align Center (cmd-shift-C). Set the text width to 80% by typing 80 in the Master Palettes width field and pressing enter. This is the individual with of the character, and changes the width based on percentages of the normal width for the selected point size. Lets play with the character kerning next. The kerning is the spacing between individual letters. PageMaker lets you adjust each letter individually, so that you can get the exact look you are looking for. Make sure that you still have the entire headline selected, and in the Master Palette, type -0.2 in the kerning tool box and press enter.
graphic elements
Now lets add a picture to our page. Be sure you have the pointer tool selected so that the picture is not placed inside of the current story. Placing a picture uses the same tool as placing text, so go to the File menu and select Place (cmd-D). Find the file apple.pict and select the default settings by clicking OK. Click anywhere on the first page to place the picture, and align it precisely by using the XY Alignment tool and putting 7.75 in the X field and 6.4 in the Y field. You can also move the picture by using the pointer tool and dragging it to the desired location. To make the text run around the picture without hiding behind it, select the Element menu and then Text PAGE 6
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NOTE: picture file formats are very important to which to pay attention when dealing with PageMaker. Publishing industry convention is to use TIFF file format or more recently, EPS, or Encapsulated Postscript. Either are acceptable, however, the EPS format tends to breakup when displayed within the new document. PICT images are quite acceptable as well. They all produce great results and are relatively easy to deal with within PageMaker, and it doesnt complain too much, either.
colors
Color is always an interesting element to add. If your document is going to be a PDF file, then you can easily spice it up with color text and pictures. Now lets change the color of Q and R in your headline to Blue. Click the Colors tab in the Styles and Colors Palette and select the Q now click the blue. Do the same for the R. All right then. Now you are on your own.
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Tool Palette Styles and Colors Palettes
Page Selector
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rectangle graphic . this tool creates a graphic box that is unusable for text and pictures, but is instead an editable, graphical element (hold down shift to constrain it to a square). rectangle frame . this tool draws a frame box that can be used for text and pictures. Dynamically editable as well and technically similar to the box layout concept of QuarkXpress. oval graphic . this tool is the same as the rectangle graphic, save that it draws ovals (hold down shift to constrain it to a circle). oval frame . this is the same as the oval graphic, with the same frame properties as the rectangle frame. polygon graphic . the same as other graphics, save that it draws pentagons (default) that can be changed into other multisided figures with Polygon Settings under the Element menu. polygon frame. the same as the other frames, with the same properties as the polygon graphic. . move . this moves the page within the window. e zoom . this zooms the page to the next incremental zoom level (by clicking), zooms to a certain area (by clicking, holding, and drawing a bounding box), or zooms out (by holding down option).
page selector
these icons represent individual pages in the document. it is a way to jump from one page to another, or to jump to the left/right master pages, where constant items can be placed on throughout the document on their respective pages.
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height/width . this sets the height and width of the currently selected object, either numerically in inches (or the currently selected measurement system set in preferences) or in percentages of the current size. rotate . this rotates, just as does the rotate tool. The center of rotation is set as the objects center and exact measurements can be used (positives, negatives and decimals are allowed). skew . this skews, in degrees, the currently selected object. w
xy position . this sets the horizontal and vertical position of the upper-left corner of the currently selected object.
text position . this adjusts the placement of the text on a given line. Positive numbers move the text into a supertext position (above the line), and negative numbers move it into a subtext position (below the line). text width . this adjusts the character width and does not affect height. The e larger the percentage, the wider the word. Percentages over 100% make it proportionately larger than the standard sizing, under 100% make it proportionately smaller. APPENDIX III