PageMaker 6.5: For Macintosh (Visual QuickStart Guides) (Paperback)

Don't have the time or artistic skills to design business documents from scratch? The latest update of PageMaker, PageMaker 6.5 Plus, adds hundreds of professionally designed templates to its impressive list of tools. To help you get the most out of this upgrade, PageMaker 6.5 Plus for Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide shows you how to use and customize these templates to create your own professional-looking pieces.

Even if you've never "designed" anything more complicated than a business letter, you'll soon be creating newsletters, brochures, print ads, and more, thanks to the book's clear, step-by-step explanations and hundreds of illustrations. Design tips sprinkled throughout the pages will help you turn out polished work, whether you need to pull together a flyer for the company picnic or produce a complete corporate identity system for your small business.

Adobe PageMaker has long been one of the leading professional page layout tools available to desktop publishers. With the release of Version 6.5, Adobe has added breakthrough new layout capabilities that significantly improve how documents can be structured, and it has added all new online publishing features. Version 6.5 also adopts the new look and feel that Adobe has been creating for all their products and includes a newly revised interface, new menus, and new keyboard shortcuts.

This guide is the easiest way for newcomers to learn the basics of PageMaker. It is also the fastest way for experienced PageMaker users to get up to speed with all the new features of Version 6.5. The book covers PageMaker basics, such as creating a document, setting preferences, and more. It moves on to explore working with type, graphics, and layout in PageMaker. New users learn how to work with text, define and use styles, place images, work with Photoshop and Illustrator, and more.

Experienced PageMaker users will use the Visual QuickStart Guide to learn all the new keyboard shortcuts, as well as the new features, such as using document-wide layers, automatic layout adjustment, the enhanced polygon tool, and new color publishing options. All users will be excited by the new online publishing features including the hyperlinks palette and extensive support for electronic delivery in HTML format and in Adobe PDF format.

• The easiest, most inexpensive way to learn this popular page layout program
• PageMakerÕs new interface, menus, and keyboard shortcuts mean that experienced users and newcomers alike need a handy reference book
• Covers new Web publishing capabilities including the hyperlinks palette and enhanced HTML features

• Books > Computing & Internet > Hardware
• Books > Computing & Internet > New to Computing > Graphics & Publishing > Desktop Publishing
• Books > Computing & Internet > Software & Graphics > Desktop Publishing > Adobe Pagemaker
• Books > Computing & Internet > Software & Graphics > Desktop Publishing > Macintosh

• Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
• I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
• I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.