Adobe PageMaker 7 Tutorials - Online Training Course

Course Title: Adobe PageMaker 7

If you are looking for employment within corporate desktop publishing departments, learning Adobe PageMaker is a must! Adobe PageMaker 7.0 is a high-end professional publishing program, and is heavily used in many corporate production environments, as well as some studios and magazines. Virtual Training Company's tutorial will have you using this page layout application with ease in no time. Brian White starts the tutorial with the basics, which includes the toolbox and pointer tool, various views, and moving and resizing objects. He then explains the use of guides and rulers, various drawing tools, and fills and outlines, including setting a tint and how to create and edit colors. You will then learn the difference between frames and blocks and how to use them, how to format and work with text, and how to add graphics and tables. You will also learn how to take advantage of PageMakerÕs newest feature, date merging. To get started, just click one of the topics below.

Course Author/Expert: Brian White

Language: english

Full Online Training Available: Yes

Number of Course Movies: 180

Course Duration: 8.5 hours

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Course Outline:

Straight away, you can go through the first three chapters of this tutorial. If you need all the lessons, then join the Online University - complete access to over five hundred and fifty courses right now for as long as you need them and even get an online university certificate. See below for details.

Fills and Outlines

Outline and Stroke

Transparent Stroke

Basic Fills

Color Fills

Types of Color

Creating Spot Color

Creating CMYK colors

Creating RGB Colors

Setting a Tint

Using the Color Pallet

Creating Deleting and Editing Colors

Creating Default Colors

Importing Colors

Importing Colors with EPS files

Frames and Blocks

Frames vs. Blocks

Text Blocks

Threading Text

Threading Text Automatically

Deleting Blocks

Cutting and Pasting Blocks

Text Frames

Linking Text Frames

Frame Options

Frame Shapes

Separating Frames

Control Pallet I

Intro to Control Pallet

Control Pallet Basics I

Control Pallet Basics II

Control Pallet Basics III

Control Pallet Basics IV

Working with Text

Selecting Text

Changing Fonts I

Changing Fonts II

Managing Fonts

True Type vs. Type 1 Fonts

Font Size

Type Styles

Warning - Type Styles

Sub/Super Script

Caps and Small Caps

Changing Case

Tracking

Expert Tracking

Breaking Text

Kerning

Baseline Shift

Character Scaling

Leading

Working with Paragraphs

Intro to Paragraph Formatting

Justification

Indents

Space Above and Below

Orphan and Widow Control

Keeping Lines Together

Column and Rule Breaks

Rules Above and Below

Advanced Rules

Balancing Columns

Align Paragraph to Grid

Tabs and Indents

Setting Indents

Creating Hanging Indents

Setting Tabs I

Setting Tabs II

Paragraph Styles

Intro Paragraph Styles

Creating Styles I

Creating Styles II

Creating Styles III

Mixed Styles

Style Tags

Next Style

Importing Styles

Working with Graphics

Place vs. Cut and Paste

Cutting and Pasting

Linking and Embedding

Placing and Linking Images

Replacing Images

Inserting Into Frames

Working with Graphic Frames I

Working with Graphic Frames II

Separating Content from Frame

Cropping and Panning Cropped Images

Creating a Keyline I

Creating a Keyline II

Manipulating with the Control Palette

Intro

Positioning

Scaling I

Scaling II

Magic Scale

Rotating

Skew

Mirror

Anchoring the Proxy Button

Removing Transformations

Arranging Objects

Order

Align

Distribute

Grouping

Masking

Text Wrap

Irregular Text Wrap

Locking Position

Image Control

Bitmap Effects

Non Printing Items

Story Editor

Opening Story Editor

Formatting in Story Editor

Find and Change

Finding Special Characters

Spell Check

Using Styles

Editor Defaults

Misc Text

Bullets and Numbers

Special Characters

Drop Caps

Inline Graphics

Working in Long Documents

Document Set-up

Setting Up Master Pages

Adding Page Numbers

Advanced Numbering

Multiple Master Pages I

Multiple Master Pages

Overriding Master Pages

Intro to Layers

Order on Layers

Creating a New Layer

Moving in Longer Documents

Slide Show

View in High Res

Sorting Pages

Managing Links

Adobe Table

Intro to Table

Entering data

Importing Data

Selecting Cells

Formatting Text

Cell Width and Height

Adding and Deleting Rows and Columns

Formatting Cell Outlines

Formatting Fills

Final Formatting

Exporting Tables

Linking and Updating