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Notes often feature a series of photographs of the same subject. These images are then combined,
with advice columns and tables of data, explaining how to reproduce certain effects. Pages
such as these combine material from at least three different sources. Titles and headlines
are also added to the magazine’s cover.
Among Scott’s favourite PageMaker features is the pasteboard. Reminiscent of a traditional
typesetting desk, material can be laid around the page and then laid in or taken out at the
editor’s request. Because this feature was based on the methods Scott had been trained in,
the transition to desktop publishing was relatively simple. “Like a lot of PageMaker
features, it harked back to techniques I’d been using for years. It’s a lot more convenient
but doesn’t alienate people used to traditional publishing techniques.” Scott also makes
frequent use of the package’s frame features. In PageMaker, a series of frames can be
created and filled with either text or images. These frames can also be linked so that a long
piece of text can easily be spread across several frames. Finally, Scott praises the package’s
Story Editor. This feature allows the user to edit content, even after layout has been
completed, and contains word processing tools such as search and replace. “I’m a writer
more than a designer,” Scott says. “So the story editor gives me total control over the
article.”

In the past two years, Scott has employed Anthony Viney as art director for the magazine.
“When Anthony joined he was used to working with Quark Xpress,” says Scott. “But
because we’ve been using PageMaker for 13 years, we asked him to change systems, and
it didn’t take him very long.”
Questions:

1. Study and analyze the case.
2. Write down the case facts.
3. What do you infer from it?

Source: http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Case-Study-Adobe-PageMaker-65

14.9 Summary

z PageMaker is a desktop publishing program. It is used to create documents with a complex
layout of text and graphics, such as brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, fliers, reports, etc.
z The PageMaker Toolbox contains all of the tools you will use for creating and manipulating
text and objects.

z We can move around a page by four methods – Scroll Bars, Hand Tool, Master Pages and
Page Numbers.
z We can add and edit text to our PageMaker document.

z Like text we can also add, edit and place figure in a document.
z A template is a file that contains standing elements for use in each issue.
z PageMaker uses nonprinting ruler guidelines to help you align and position objects.

z Guides are used to help visualize non-printing areas, align text, and align images and
other graphic elements on the page and to each other.

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