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Unit 2: Designing and Desktop Publishing Tools

Notes
Figure 2.24: Changing Anchor Directions

Source: http://www.vectordiary.com/isd_post/2008/day05/change-anchor-handle.gif

Tips for Using Pen Tool

z Use as little anchor points your need to create your shape
z Add anchor points where there is a change in direction of the line/curve
z Use shortcuts like Alt/Option or Ctrl/Command to quickly swap to other tools to edit
your path
z Hold shift to lock your path while adding new anchor point for 45-degree increments.

2.2.4 Basics of PageMaker

PageMaker was one of the first desktop publishing programs, introduced in 1985 by Aldus
Corporation, initially for the then-new Apple Macintosh and in 1987 for PCs running
Windows 1.0.

How to Create a New Document?

z Upon starting PageMaker you will see a screen offering you a variety of initial choices of
templates upon which to base your publication. In our case, we will start with a blank
presentation. After becoming familiar with PageMaker we can always choose one of the
templates to create our publication. Close the templates-options screen by clicking on the
Close button located on the top right corner of the screen.

z Go to: File 4 New. A dialogue box showing the Document Setup similar to Figure 2.25 will
appear. Here we can specify the page dimensions, orientation, margins, number of the
pages, etc. Set the inside margin to “1”, all other margins to “.75” and the page size to
“Letter”.

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