PageMaker How-To: Simplify Layout Tasks with Templates

Templates are a fast, easy, and efficient way to produce multiple page layouts in Adobe PageMaker 7.
Written on June 13, 2002

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Wth all the hullabaloo about InDesign and QuarkXPress, you PageMaker stalwarts may be saying: "Hey, what about us?" Never fear, we're here.

Adobe's PageMaker team -- and who knows more about PageMaker? -- shows you how to use templates to increase efficiency and simplify your page-layout efforts. (ID and QXP users might pick up a tip or two.)

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One of the problems with using PDF may be that you're not making it compatible enough. I have the full version of 4.0, but am not permitted to view the document.

PS; after spending 6 years as a prepress professional, I can probably make most of these templates as fast as you can find them. However, most of the jobs I've seen that the outsider folks (graphic artists) either cannot, or will not take the time to figure out how to put something multiple up on a page, or fold properly. PLEASE use these templates, they're going to be much better than a graphic artist who "eyeballs" it.

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