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This manual is designed to help the beginner get started with the use of PageMaker 6.5. The manual starts with the assumption that you possibly know what desktop publishing actually is and have a desire to start using one of the "industry acceptable" programmes to produce your work. There is also an assumption that you are familiar with the operations of using Windows 95 or later. It is suggested that if you are not, this course may be too difficult to cope with.
Desktop Publishing can be just a hobby, where the individual produces personal news letters or those for small organisations, through to fully professional where this is actually your area of employment. Whatever the case, PageMaker will offer you a way to express your creativity and produce professional documents.
This manual will only cover the basics of how to get started with PageMaker 6.5. For those who need to move into the advanced techniques, there are many manuals available through most bookstores; you can enrol in suitable courses with recognised training organisations; or, for the more daring, experiment with the programme and extend the skills this manual will have helped you to acquire.
Whilst this manual is designed primarily as a teaching aid manual, it is possible to use it as a teach yourself manual. I have tried to make the instructions and their associated screen dumps as clear as possible so that the manual can be used to help you teach yourself or, as a student, to be able to refer back to the manual as a refresher after you have completed your training
Whilst this manual is designed for PageMaker 6.5, for the more adventurous, it could be readily adapted to many other Desktop Publishing programmes. If you use this manual for that purpose, remember that locations of controls and even the names of those controls may vary from programme to programme.
For those in the classroom situation, your teacher/facilitator will take you through the steps in the manual, but it is most important that you practice the techniques yourself. The manual does list some additional exercises you can do yourself but you need to go beyond this and practice producing other publications.
A CD containing all the text and graphics required for the course is supplied with the manual. For those using this system in the classroom situation, you may have only received the manual and these files will be found on your computer or on the network. These will fit on a single floppy disk so you may want to copy them to practice with: check with your trainer about this before you do it.