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Unit 14: PageMaker

14.10 Keywords Notes

Constrained Line: This tool enables you to draw horizontal, vertical and 45-degree angle lines.
Frames: Frames are placeholders that let you design a layout without actual text or graphics.

Graphics: Elements like pictures that can be added on the PageMaker document.
Guides: Lines on the page that allow you line up text and graphic boxes.
Master Page: A Master Page is the page that contains basic formatting information, such as
guides, that you wish to use across a multiple page publication.
Page Icos: Identify the various functionalities of the document.
Pasteboard: The area surrounding the page(s) of your publication on the screen.
Publication: A newsletter, brochure, catalogue or other file that you have created with
PageMaker.
Ruler: They help you align and position objects.
Templates: A template is a predefined layout that you can copy and modify (if desired) for your
publication.

14.11 Review Questions

1. Explain all the tools available in the toolbox in PageMaker.
2. Give the steps to place a figure in a document in Pagemaker.
3. What is the difference between a template and a publication?

4. What is the difference between opening a normal publication and a template?
5. What are the different ways to move around a PageMaker document?
6. Briefly explain the place command used to place text.

7. Elaborate the process to change the view of a publication.
8. Explain the concept of guides.
9. What are rulers? Explain vertical and horizontal rulers.
10. How do you place text in a column?

Answers: Self Assessment

1. Show Tools 2. Pasteboard

3. Zoom In, Zoom Out, Actual Size, and Fit in Window
4. Scroll Bars, Hand Tool, Master Pages and Page Numbers
5. True 6. False
7. Layering Graphics 8. Shift

9. TIFF 10. Pointer
11. Oblique Line 12. False
13. True 14. True

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