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Yearbook Publishing
 ~ How To...
 ~ ~ Advertising
 ~ ~ Camera Ready
 ~ ~ Captions
 ~ ~ Color pages
 ~ ~ Copy
 ~ ~ Cover Designs
 ~ ~ Digital Camera
 ~ ~ Divider pages
 ~ ~ Endsheets
 ~ ~ Grade 10 Writeups
 ~ ~ Headlines
 ~ ~ Interviewing
 ~ ~ Job Assignments
 ~ ~ Layout
 ~ ~ PageMaker
 ~ ~ Photography
 ~ ~ QuikPic
 ~ ~ Scanning
 ~ ~ Sections
 ~ ~ Signatures
 ~ ~ Terminology
 ~ ~ Theme
 ~ ~ Title page
 ~ ~ Typography
 ~ Exercise 1
 ~ Exercise 2
 ~ Exercise 3
 ~ Exercise 4
 ~ Exercise 5
 ~ Exercise 6
 ~ Exercise 7
 ~ Exercise 8
 ~ Exercise 9
 ~ Exercise 10
 ~ Exercise 11
 ~ Exercise 12
 ~ Exercise 13
 ~ Exercise 14
 ~ Exercise 15
 ~ Exercise 16
 ~ Exercise 17
 ~ Exercise 18
 ~ Exercise 19
 ~ Exercise 20

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How To ~ Use PageMaker

PageMaker is what is used in the Publishing industry. The skills you learn here are directly transferable to a future job. Because PageMaker is so powerful you have to be more careful about how you put your documents together. Here are some of the operations you will need to know to avoid problems.
File names
File names should tell the people who have to work with your file what page(s) the file contains.
eg: p006-007.p65
(.p65 is automatically added by PageMaker)
Blurry pictures
Click File > Preferences > General. In the Graphics display group choose High resolution

If pictures are still not clear you have a bad picture
Picture Frames
click on the Frame tool and draw a frame on your document
Click on the Pointer tool and choose the picture frame to insert the picture into.
 
Click on File > Place and navigate to find the picture you want to use.
Choosing Pictures
  1. Choose the picture you want to use from the I:\everyone\yearbook directory
  2. Ask the picture editor/s (Beth or Lisa) to move them for you
  3. you will find them in I:\everyone\yearbook\submission
  4. edit the picture with PhotoShop and save changes to same directory

idrive.jpg (31790 bytes)
Placing Pictures
  1. Click on Picture box in PageMaker and note size in Contol Panel ~ below

pm-box.jpg (22418 bytes)

  1. Open picture in PhotoShop
  2. Crop/Resize picture if needed
  3. Adjust width ~or~ height to match PageMaker box
  4. Crop remaining height ~or~ width to match PageMaker box
  5. Deselect Resample and
    change Resolution to 300
  6. Reselect Resample
  7. Save picture and close PhotoShop
  8. Place adjusted picture in PageMaker box

pm-box2.jpg (37657 bytes)

dani-1.jpg (32339 bytes)

res-300.jpg (19906 bytes)

dani-2.jpg (33835 bytes)
adjust crop selection to 20.9 Picas wide

dani-3.jpg (26513 bytes)
final image 20.9 x 23
Printing
Choose File > Print to display the dialogue box at right.

Click
Change the settings to match what is shown
Size = Letter
Deselect Printer's marks
Deselect Page information
Deselect Center page
Change Scale to
Reduce to fit

Click Print ~ allow 10 min. to print ~ or ~ more if there a lot of graphics