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Introduction to Adobe PageMaker

Santa Clara, CA

Subject: Web & Graphic Design

Class Objectives:

* Navigate in the PageMaker environment.
* Set up a document.
* Import text and graphics.
* Format text using fonts, sizes, type styles, indents, alignment and tabs.
* Use styles to format text.
* Use master pages and guides to design a documents layout.
* Add page numbers to a document.
* Wrap text around a graphic.
* Create a booklet.
* Create and use templates.

Lesson #1: Creating a Newsletter

1. The PageMaker environment
2. Document Setup see more

Class Objectives:

* Navigate in the PageMaker environment.
* Set up a document.
* Import text and graphics.
* Format text using fonts, sizes, type styles, indents, alignment and tabs.
* Use styles to format text.
* Use master pages and guides to design a documents layout.
* Add page numbers to a document.
* Wrap text around a graphic.
* Create a booklet.
* Create and use templates.

Lesson #1: Creating a Newsletter

1. The PageMaker environment
2. Document Setup
3. Typing text and manipulating text blocks
4. Basic text formatting
5. Importing and manipulating graphics
6. Using master pages

Lesson #2: Using Text

1. Importing text
2. Spacing text
3. Indenting text
4. Using tabs
5. Using styles
6. Using the story editor

Lesson #3: Using Graphics

1. Drawing shapes
2. Applying colors
3. Text wrapping
4. Manipulating graphics
5. Cropping graphics
6. Inline graphics

Lesson #4: Printing with PageMaker

1. Creating and applying spot color
2. Updating links
3. Creating a booklet
4. Printing a proof
5. Collecting files for output

Lesson #5: Creating an Identity System

1. Creating Templates
2. Using Templates
3. Drag and drop between documents
4. Using a library

The next class is: PageMaker Level 2

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When

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Ages

18 year olds or older

Where

Santa Clara, CA

Willing to travel up to 100000 miles

Type

  • 1:1 / Private Lessons,
  • Class / Group Sessions

Skill level

Beginner


The teachers

  • Kevin Ruse
  • Taught By
  • Kevin Ruse
  • What is this?

Kevin Ruse is the principal of Kevin Ruse and Associates Inc. a web and print design and consulting firm based in Santa...

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Kevin Ruse is the principal of Kevin Ruse and Associates Inc. a web and print design and consulting firm based in Santa Clara, California. Kevin has been a trainer in Web Development and graphic design in a variety of environments including DeAnza Community College and the University of California Santa Cruz. Kevin has also taught the staff and faculty at Stanford University and UC Berkeley.

Kevin is an Adobe Certified Instructor and a Certified Training Partner for the Altova Suite of XML software and the Oxygen XML Editor. He currently teaches the following languages and software: Flex, Fireworks, Flash, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, Quark XPress, JavaScript, ActionScript, MXML, XML, XSLT, DTD/Schema, ColdFusion, HTML, XHTML and CSS.

When he is not training, consulting or working on development projects Kevin is a technical editor for Technical publishers including Pearson and Apress. Kevin is the author of Web Standards Design Guide, a college textbook used as a primer to Web Standards for Web Design. Kevin is an enthusiastic instructor who maintains a strong belief that with patience, determination and guidance all individuals can reach their maximum potential.

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