It's been over four years since the last release of Adobe PageMaker, and long-awaited version 7 is finally available! This page layout program now offers loads of new features, including a new simplified workflow with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, and added integration with popular business tools such as Microsoft Word, QuarkXPress, and more. PageMaker 7.0 also features integrated Portable Document Format (PDF) creation tools, as well as new data merge capabilities that use images and text exported from databases -- enabling PageMaker 7.0 to assist in direct mail pieces, for example. PageMaker is ideal for educators, business professionals, small office/home office users, and anyone wanting to create professional-quality documents such as brochures, newsletters, flyers, business reports, and more. Adobe PageMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book is a self-paced learning course in a hands-on workbook. It offers complete training based on real-life projects, organized by chapter. Practical, focused lessons are designed to fit into busy schedules and teach the ins and outs of PageMaker quickly and easily.This cross-platform book contains a CD-ROM with specially created files and images, so readers can work through the lessons and projects at their own pace.
As with each entry in the Classroom in a Book series, this one is used as part of Adobe's official training and certification program. Adobe PageMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book (With CD-ROM) offers practical, step-by-step, timed lessons covering all of Pagemaker's features and tools and ensures that readers master the application. In addition, it provides clear explanations on how and why things work the way they do and supplies elegantly professional artwork on which to practice.
Each lesson is well organized, from the opening rundown of what will be covered to the final chapter review, complete with quiz questions (and answers). Projects are the sort of practical challenges that most desktop publishers face today: flyer, letterhead, project proposal, CD jewel-case booklet, brochure, print and Web-based newsletters, color catalog, and more. You learn how to work with master pages, styles, and inline graphics and how to format a sidebar and use the story editor.
Each project also addresses real-world practicalities like spot colors, trapping, registration, bleeds, and other prepress issues. Understanding how each of these affects your print piece will be invaluable when it's time to talk with your printer. In addition, readers learn how to format and generate an index and a table of contents and how to use the version 7.0-enhanced Export PDF command.
One of the more compact books in this series, Adobe PageMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book won't leave readers buried under excessively detailed projects. There's no wasted space and the trim, to-the-point text makes it enjoyable to work through the exercises while learning the software. Whether you use Pagemaker casually or as a daily part of your workload, you'll definitely want to pick this one up. --Angelynn Grant
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Adobe Pagemaker 7.0, Classroom in a Book:
The lessons are logically structured. They take you from basic concepts to more advanced ones, while reapplying previously learned concepts for reinforcement. The book takes you step by step through the exercises contained on an accompanying CD. To give the student an overview of the final product, the exercises start out with a review of the finished product. Communications are clear and concise. This is the way to learn Pagemaker - far superior to working your way through the help topics contained in the... more info
Very Frustrating:
I am a college student majoring in Multimedia Publishing. This book was used as the Pagemaker textbook for my digital publishing class, and I found it very frustrating. The step by step instructions were very unclear on some parts and hard to follow. I felt as if steps were being skipped, and things just weren't explained well enough for me. Also, the fact that some of the needed fonts were missing from the disc did not help matters. If not for my class instructor, I'm not sure I would have learned anything... more info
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I have used PageMaker before starting with Version 6.0. I used an after market book "Teach Yourself PageMaker 6.0 in Twenty Four Hours" to learn it. Unfortunately they did not Publish the same book for 7.0. I had to brush up my PageMaker skills so I thought I would get Adobe's Publication "PageMaker 7.0 Classroom In A Book". To say the book is confusing is an understatement. The book gives you an estimated time that would be suffient to finish each lession usually two hours. All I can say to that is, In... more info
PageMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book:
I found myself very frustrated using this book. I kept going back as I thought I had missed something. For example, the author claims that all the needed fonts are included on the disk, but they are not, and without them, the examples do not look like they should. It is apparent that the book was not closely edited. REference is made to vertical rules when the action described must be a horizontal ruler! These types of errors make it very difficult for the novice to learn the application. Not that every... more info
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