Adobe PageMaker, Basic and Intermediate - for beginners (2 days)

Duration: 2 days.

Course objective: To provide a thorough grounding in Adobe PageMaker.

The course is designed for the busy professional. It is short and intensive, combining lecture, demonstration and hands-on instruction.

Who should attend? Newcomers to PageMaker, and users with a small amount of experience. Those who have used other similar page layout tools in the past.

You should be familiar with Windows, Microsoft Word and have basic word processing techniques.

Courseware and certification: You receive comprehensive courseware and at the end of the course we issue you with a certificate confirming you have attended and successfully completed PageMaker training.

After course support: Following PageMaker training, you are entitled to 30 days email support from Armada to help with any post-training issues.

Other PageMaker training: Advanced Adobe PageMaker (1 day). For more details, please contact us.

Dates and venue: Our PageMaker courses are run on an exclusive basis for each client. This means that we can run the course you want when you want it. Training can take place either at our training centre in the Midlands or at your venue.

Course outline:

Creating a Newsletter
• The PageMaker environment
• Document setup
• Typing text and manipulating text blocks
• Basic text formatting
• Importing and manipulating graphics
• Using master pages

Using text
• Importing text
• Spacing text
• Indenting text
• Using tabs
• Using styles
• Using the story editor

Using graphics
• Drawing shapes
• Applying colours
• Text wrapping
• Manipulating graphics
• Cropping graphics
• Inline graphics

Printing with PageMaker
• Creating and applying spot colours
• Updating links
• Creating a booklet

Creating an identity system
• Creating templates
• Using templates
• Drag and drop between documents
• Using a library

Formatting Using Advanced Typography
• Choose typefaces
• Align type
• Align type to a Grid
• Kern type
• Hyphenate text
• Create type effects

Applying Advanced Layout Techniques
• Use graphics frames
• Use layers
• Adjust layout automatically
• Create multiple master pages

Applying Colour Management and Printing
• Define CMYK and spot colours
• Create printer styles
• Print colour separations

Creating Tables
• Creating a new table
• Import table text
• Format text
• Format a table
• Change borders and shading
• Use tables in PageMaker

Creating Acrobat PDF Documents
• Export a PDF document
• Create a PDF for print
• Set up hyperlinks
• Create a PDF for the Web