Adobe PageMaker 7.0.2 27530380 User Manual

 

Save time using the Adjust Layout feature to automatically reposition, resize, and reflow 

text blocks, frames, and graphics when you revise the layout framework of a page or a whole publication. 
For example, you can quickly refashion a four-column publication to a two-column format. PageMaker 
then reflows the text and graphics on each page to match the new settings.

 

Type and format text directly in layout view, or take advantage of the story editor, a built-in word processor 
that makes it easy to create and edit text. Set tabs and indents, spell-check publications, insert tables, and 
perform other word-processing tasks in PageMaker.

Once text is in PageMaker, it is part of a story. A PageMaker story is similar to an article in a newspaper. 
Several stories may appear on the same page and continue elsewhere on a different page in a publication.

If you need to work on long publications, assemble multiple publications into a book so that you can work 
on them as a whole—create a table of contents and an index, renumber pages, and print the book—while 
retaining the ability to work on each publication independently. When you export a publication to Adobe 
PDF, you can automatically create bookmarks and hypertext links for a table of contents and index entries 
in Adobe PDF files.

 

Produce professional-quality type in your publication. Sophisticated layout features and professional 
typographic capabilities give you access to the same page layout effects used by graphic designers.

Traditionally, typographers use tracking to change the visual denseness of type on the page, and kerning to 
adjust the spacing between pairs of letters. Use PageMaker to set typography to professional standards with 
point-size-dependent tracking, kerning in 0.001-em increments, and expanded and condensed type. 
PageMaker offers precise control over word and letter spacing, hyphenation and justification, and text 
alignment. 

 

Import images from graphic applications such as Adobe Illustrator® or Adobe Photoshop® software directly 
into PageMaker, or use drawing tools to create lines, rectangles and squares, circles and ellipses, and 
polygons to which you can apply a stroke and fill. These shapes can be self-contained, or they can be used 
as frames that hold text or imported graphics. 

Type text directly in PageMaker or import it from another application. You can manipulate a text block as 
an object—for example, select, move, and resize it.

In layout view, text is contained in text objects—either a text 

 

 or a text 

 

. A text block is created 

with the text tool or by flowing text into columns. A text frame is created with a frame tool or by converting 
a drawn shape to a text block. When you edit text, you work with letters and words, but you can manipulate 
text objects in the same way you manipulate graphics—as movable objects.