The text wrap feature in Adobe PageMaker allows you to place graphics in a document and have the text

wrap around that image without covering it (or being covered). A basic text wrap takes only a few clicks. Difficulty: Easy Time Required: NA Here's How: 1. Place your graphic object on the page in the position where you want it. It may cover up part of the text, that's OK. 2. With your object selected, choose Element | Text wrap... from the menu bar. 3. From the Text Wrap dialog box select the middle icon for Wrap option (the third icon is not available initially until you've customized the text wrap). 4. Choose a Text flow: With Icon 1 text stops at the graphic then continues to next page or column. Icon 2 wraps text to top and bottom only. Icon 3 wraps text completely around in a rectangular wrap (until you modify it). 5. If you know exactly how much space you want between text and object, make adjustments in the Standoff section, otherwise accept the default and click OK. 6. If the text doesn't wrap exactly the way you want grab one of the dotted lines representing the standoff area and pull it in closer to the object or further away until you get the text wrap effect you want. Tips: 1. Select the 'Wrap text on same layer only' box if you don't want to wrap text on other layers around the object. 2. When placing a square/rectangular graphic between two columns of ragged right aligned text, use a slightly smaller standoff on the left side to visually balance the space around the object. 3. Align the bottom of your graphic with the baseline of adjacent text.

Drop caps are one variety of initial capitals those oversized letters used at the start of some paragraphs to catch the eye and lead the reader into the text. Here's how to use the drop cap plug-in in Adobe Pagemaker 6.5 for Windows. Difficulty: Easy Time Required: NA Here's How: 1. With the text tool, highlight the letter you wish to make into a drop cap. 2. Select Utilities | Plug-ins | Drop caps... from the menu bar. 3. In the Drop cap dialog box change the Size to the number of lines of text you want the letter to drop into the paragraph (the default is 3). 4. Select Apply to see how the Drop cap will look. 5. If you don't like it, select Remove then try again. 6. When you are satisfied with your Drop cap, select the Close button on the Drop cap dialog box. Tips: 1. If you want to use a different typeface for the Drop cap, make the changes before using the Drop cap plug-in. Suggested Reading More Adobe PageMaker Tutorials Fine-tune Initial Caps Suggested Reading Related Articles Inserting Drop Caps in a Word Document CSS Drop Caps - Simple CSS Drop Caps in Web Pages Having Fun with Initial Caps - Drop Caps in Desktop Publishing and Page Lay... CSS Initial Caps - Decorative First Letters - Use CSS to Create Initial Cap... Dripping Blood Text Tutorial in Inkscape - Use Inkscape to Make Dripping Bl...

Try all of these options for viewing your document: Choose the Zoom tool (magnifying glass in the Tools palette) then click on an area in the publication. It will zoom to the next larger view size (based on your current magnification). To zoom out, choose the zoom tool then hold down the Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) key then click on the publication. When in zoom in mode, your mouse pointer becomes a magnifying glass with a plus sign. In zoom out mode, the magnifying glass has a minus sign. Switch quickly to the Zoom tool by holding down Cmd+Spacebar (Mac) or Ctrl+Spacebar (Windows) to zoom in or the Cmd+Opt+Spacebar (Mac) or Ctrl+Alt+Spacebar (Windows) when using any other tool. Switch to the Zoom tool (using the Cmd/Ctrl+Spacebar keystroke) then click and drag a rectangular selection box around the area you want to zoom in on and release the mouse button. PageMaker zooms in on that selection. Use the View menu to Zoom In, Zoom Out, change the view to Actual Size, Fit In Window, or Entire Pasteboard. Each of these magnifications also have keyboard shortcuts as seen in the table at the end of this article. Choose Zoom To from the View menu to access the preset zoom or magnification options of 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%, 200%, and 400%. All but 25% have keyboard shortcuts as shown in the table at the end of this article. Mac: Toggle between Actual Size and 200% using Cmd+Opt+Shift then click on the page. Win: Toggle between Fit in Window and Actual Size by holding down Shift and pressing the right mouse button. Windows Only: With the Zoom tool selected, right-click on an empty portion of the page to display the menu of preset page view options or to input your own magnification percentage (Other View). Windows Only: With any tool other than the Zoom tool selected, right-click on an empty portion of the page to select Other View to input your own magnification percentage. Set all pages in your active publication to the same view by pressing Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) while choosing the desired view from the View menu. Keyboard Shortcuts Zoom Mac Windows Actual size (100%) Cmd+1 Ctrl+1 Zoom in Cmd++(plus) Ctrl++(plus) (zooms to the next higher preset magnification setting) Zoom out Cmd+-(minus) Ctrl+-(minus) (zooms to the next smaller preset magnification setting) Fit in Window Cmd+0 (zero) Ctrl+0 (zero) Entire Pasteboard Shift+Cmd+0 (zero) Ctrl+Alt+0 Shift+Ctrl+W prior to version 6.5 50% Cmd+5 Ctrl+5 75% Cmd+7 Ctrl+5 100% Cmd+1 Ctrl+1 200% Cmd+2 Ctrl+2 400% Cmd+4 Ctrl+4 + means "and" that is, Ctrl+1 means hold down the Control and 1 keys simultaneously. When plus refers to the plus sign, (plus) appears in parentheses as in Cmd++(plus) means hold down the Command and Plus keys at the same time.

A bullet list is a list of words, phrases, or sentences set apart with a simple bullet or numbers at the start of of each line. Bullet lists can help to set apart information or provide a list of steps to be taken to accomplish a task. Here's how to use the bullets and numbering plug-in in Adobe PageMaker 6.5 for Windows. Difficulty: Easy Time Required: NA Here's How: 1. With the text tool, highlight the lines to which you want to add bullets or numbers or put your cursor at the start of the first line (paragraph). 2. Select Utilities | Plug-ins | Bullets and numbering... from the menu bar. 3. In the Bullets and numbering dialog box select the style of bullet you want to use from the choices given or use the Edit button to select a different font or bullet or size for the bullet. 4. If you want a numbered list instead of bullets, select the Numbers button. Choose a numbering style and specify the number range to use if you don't want to start with number 1. 5. If you highlight the text you want bulleted or numbered, choose Only selected paragraphs for the Range; otherwise, specify the number of paragraphs that you want bulleted. 6. Select Ok to add your selected bullet or number style. Tips: 1. Be consistent in your use of bullets. Too many different styles in a publication or mixed bullets in one list are confusing. 2. Numbers are good for lists of tasks that are best done sequentially or to designate relative importance among items in the list.

There are multiple ways to create and modify margin, column, and ruler guides in Adobe PageMaker. Try all these mouse, menu, and keyboard methods. Set margin guides in the Document Setup dialog box. Specify top, bottom, left, and right margins. To create ruler guides, position the pointer in the horizontal or vertical ruler. Click, hold, and drag down or drag right to position the ruler guide on the page. The pointer changes to a two-way arrow until the mouse button is released. To help precisely align ruler guides with ticks on the horizontal and vertical rulers, choose View > Snap to Rulers. As guides are dragged on to the page, they will snap to the nearest tick on the ruler when the mouse button is released. To keep from accidently repositioning guides after you have them where you want them, choose View > Lock Guides. Choose Layout > Column Guides to specify uniform columns with gutters. To create different column setups for the top and bottom of a page, follow this procedure: 1. Choose Layout > Column Guides and enter the Number Of Columns for the top of the page. 2. Pull down a horizontal ruler guide to the point where you want the top column setup to end. 3. Place your text in the columns of the top of the page, using the horizontal guide as the bottom of the columns. 4. In Column Guides dialog box enter the Number Of Columns for the bottom of the page. Make sure the Adjust Layout check box is not selected. 5. Pull down another horizontal ruler guide that represents the top position of the bottom column setup. 6. Place new text or continue the text from the top column setup into the column setup at the bottom of the page.

Adobe PageMaker can import text files from a number of programs. If you have a word processing file or other editor file, it only takes a few steps to import text into PageMaker. Difficulty: Easy Time Required: NA Here's How: 1. Open your Adobe PageMaker 6.5 document or create a new file. 2. Select the text tool (or any other tool) from the toolbar in Adobe PageMaker. 3. Choose File | Place... or Press Ctrl-D (Win) or Command-D (Mac). 4. Select your file in the box that appears. 5. Depending on the type of file selected, a box may appear asking you to select an import filter or options for the text import filter (removing carriage returns). Make a selection or accept the defaults. 6. Place the text cursor which looks like the upper left corner of a piece of paper onto a page. 7. Click or click and drag to draw a specific size of text box. Your text will appear in a text box on the page. 8. Reposition and format the text as required. Tips: 1. When you import text from a word processing file, if your program doesn't appear in the filter list, you can try other filters but you'll probably need to install the correct filter in order to import text. 2. If you don't have a filter for your word processing program, try opening the file in your word processor and converting it to another format or plain text file. 3. HTML files will automatically place themselves on the page. Be sure you have your document open to the page you want the HTML file to appear.

The text wrap feature in Adobe PageMaker allows you to place graphics in a document and have the text wrap around that image. With one additional step you can also wrap text around other text blocks for effects such as pull-quotes. Difficulty: Easy Time Required: NA Here's How: 1. Select the text block that you want to have other text wrap around. 2. Choose Element | Group from the menu bar. This causes PageMaker to treat that text block as a graphic. 3. With your text turned graphic selected, choose Element | Text wrap... from the menu bar. 4. From the Text Wrap dialog box select the middle icon for Wrap option (the third icon is not available initially until you've customized the text wrap). 5. Choose a Text flow: With Icon 1 text stops at the text/graphic then continues to next page or column. Icon 2 wraps text to top and bottom only. Icon 3 wraps text completely around in a rectangular wrap (until you modify it). 6. If you know exactly how much space you want between text and text/graphic, make adjustments in the Standoff section, otherwise accept the default and click OK. 7. If the text doesn't wrap exactly the way you want grab one of the dotted lines representing the standoff area and pull it in closer or further away until you get the text wrap effect you want. Tips: 1. Select the 'Wrap text on same layer only' box if you don't want to wrap text on other layers around the text block/graphic. 2. Allow sufficient standoff between text blocks to visually separate them, especially when there is not a large degree of difference in the type used for each text block. 3. Align the bottom of pull-quotes with the baseline of adjacent text.

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