PAGEMAKER

SUBJECT CODE:16RSBE4:1
Unit-I
[Link] was PageMaker introduced?
July 1985,Manutius went on to found the first modern publishing house, the Aldine Press.
The flagship program of Aldus Co—PageMaker was released in July 1985.
2. What is PageMaker for?
Adobe Pagemaker is an application from Adobe Company. It is a software used for
Desktop Publishing. That means, we can design e-books, brochures, hand bills, visiting cards and
other printing works. After designing in Adobe Pagemaker, you can take print in printing press.
3. How many tools does PageMaker have?
The PageMaker Toolbox contains all of the tools you will use for creating and
manipulating text and objects. It also contains two tools to help you view your publication. This
document will familiarize you with the tools in the toolbox.
4. What is computer DTP?
Desktop publishing (abbreviated DTP) is the creation of documents using page layout
skills on a personal computer. Desktop publishing software can generate layouts and produce
typographic quality text and images comparable to traditional typography and printing.
[Link] are the tools of Pagemaker?
PageMaker Tools
Function Description

Rectangle Text Box Creates rectangular-shaped text boxes.

Ellipse Creates circular and oval shapes.

Ellipse Text Box Creates circular and oval-shaped text boxes.

Polygon Creates basic polygons.

6. How to save a publication in pagemaker?
To save the publication, click Package, and set options as follows: From the Report Type
pop–up menu, choose Formatted (for a PageMaker publication) or Text only (for an ASCII text–
only file).
7. How to Work With Text in PageMaker?
o Select the "Text" tool from the Toolbox. Move the cursor back to your document,
where it will turn into an I-Beam (see diagram).
o Click the mouse at the spot in your document where you want to type in your text.
...
o Release the mouse once the text box is of the size you want. ...
o Begin to type in your text.

[Link] to Creating Columns in pagemaker?

 Move to the page on which you want the columns to appear (this can be one of the master
pages if you want them to appear on all the left or right pages)
 From the Layout menu, select Column Guides… ...
 In the Column Guides dialog box, type the number of columns that you want for the
page.

9. What is the use of Place command in Pagemaker?

PageMaker is a desktop application that is used for layout design. It allows you to create,
modify and print offline publications, such as brochures, flyers and newsletters. You
can place text and graphics from other applications directly into PageMaker.
10. What is menu bar in Pagemaker?
A tour round the PageMaker screen
 Along the top of the screen runs the menu bar with the Apple icon in the top left-hand
corner. ...
 The PageMaker workspace is enclosed by the usual Macintosh window, with the familiar
scroll bars, scroll arrows, closing box, scaling boxes and title bar.

11. What is standard toolbar?

standard-toolbar. Noun. (plural standard toolbars) (computing) the bar of icons (save,
print, help, etc.) on the screen below the menu bar in applications such as Microsoft Word.
12. How to Work With Text in PageMaker
 Select the "Text" tool from the Toolbox. Move the cursor back to your document, where
it will turn into an I-Beam (see diagram).
 Click the mouse at the spot in your document where you want to type in your text. Drag
your mouse to create a rectangular box.
 Release the mouse once the text box is of the size you want.

13. How do I edit text in PageMaker?

Using the Text Tool to Edit your Text

 Click on the Text tool from the toolbox.

 Position the cursor at the beginning of the text you want to format.
 Click and drag the I-beam across the text to select it.
 Edit the selected text as follows.
14. How do I change text color in PageMaker?

 Tags:

 Select the text whose color you want to change.

 Go to the Type menu and select Character.
 Change the color to whatever you like.
 Click OK.
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Two Mark Questions:

1. What is story Editor?

Story editor is a word processing program it helps to work large amount of
data easily. We can edit, find and replace, check the spelling of text. We open story
editor in “Edit menu” and “edit story” is click.

2. Define spelling.
Story editor is help to check the spelling in page maker. It is opened by click
“utilities menu” and chooses “spelling” then it will display a dialog box with
correct spelling list. We can change the correct word for the misspelled word.

3. How can you find the repeated words?

Story editor is help to find the repeated words in page maker when it is
misspelled. This is difficult to change when misspelled words in more number of
page. So we use “find” to easily find the misspelled words in whole document.

4. What is a Table?
It is a collection of data in row and column format. Each data is entering into
a cell. To create a table click “Edit menu” and choose “Insert object” after that
select the “Adobe table 3.0 then give no of rows and columns.

5. What is Master page?

Master page are non printing pages it helps to a foundation of entire
publication. To create master page click “L and R” icon on bottom left of
Publication page. Then common design to all pages is designed.

6. Define styles.
It is the set of format setting that is to name, save and apply to paragraph.
Click “Type menu” and choose “define styles” then click “New” button and define
the user style like character styles.
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7. How can you rearrange pages?

We can rearrange the pages in publication easily using sort pages in
PageMaker. Click “Layout menu” and choose “sort pages” then rearrange the
pages in order to drag and drop according to our desire.

8. What is masking object?

Masking object defines to display a portion of an object through a drawing.
To mask an abject, first click “Element menu” and choose “Mask” then the portion
of an object is masked.

9. What are the difference between group and ungroup objects?

Group objects is to combine two are objects into one object. Ungroup object
is to decompose the object into different objects. Click “Element menu” and
Choose “group” and “ungroup”.

10. Define insert page.

To insert page in publication according to number of pages given. Click
“Layout menu” and choose “insert page” then give number of page. It will insert
number of pages.
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Unit -3
1. What are strokes?

The design of a page by customizing the appearance of the lines you drawn Lines
which are also called strokes in PageMaker are characterized by their weight and style.

2. Define cropping a graphic

Cropping a graphic changes its appearances in a publication, but it dues not

permanently delete any portion of the graphic.

3. How to Rotating an object.

We want to change the angle of an object in your publication. The Rotating Tool
in the tool box lets you rotate graphics by 360 degrees in increment to .01 degrees.

4. What are the arrange menu in PageMaker?

They are the four type of arrange menu

[Link] to front 2. Bring forward 3. Send backward 4. Send to back

5. What is shadow box? How to create.

A shadow box is a box with a drop shadow on two sides. To create a shadow box,
you draw a box, copy the box, fill the copied box with black and then send is to the back
of the stack.

6. Define Frame.

A frame is a special kind of object that can hold graphics or text and can act as a
placeholder for content. you draw a frame using the frame tools in the toolbox.

7. What is Tracking?

It is the space between two or more characters. You usually adjust tracking to
improve the appearance of a block of text, such as a paragraph.

8. What is Tabs and how to setting Tab?

Tabs are nonprinting characters that let you position text at specific location
within a text block. Tabs can help you create columns of text within a text block. We can you
insert a tab by pressing the Tab key.
9. What is use of Bullets and Numbering Plug-in?

A bullet is a small picture, usually a dot,used to identify an item in a list. We can

add bullets or numbers to consecutive paragraphs, to all paragraphs with the specific style, to
every paragraphs in a story, or to only selected paragraphs.

10. Define Indents.

An Indent is a set amount of space between the first or last word in a line of text
and the right or left margin. Indents let you move text inward from either the right or left margin
without changing the original margin settings.
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1. How to create a proof version?

A proof version is a smaller, less costly version of the final poster. Because
posters are expensive to produce.

2. Write note on reference point.

When modify on object using the control Platte, must choose a side, a corner
or the center of the object to serve as reference point.

3. Define Layers.
 Designing a page by placing all the objects directly on the page, on
can place object on multiple layers.
 Using layers feature is comparable to placing group’s of object’s on to
sheets of transparency flim, and then stacking the sheets to create a
single page.

4. How to using image control?

Page maker’s image control feature alters or enhance the appearance of gray
scale and line art images in on publications.

5. What is information brochure?

Information Boucher’s includes detailed information about a product or
service.

6. Define Spot color.

A spot color use one specific link to create a color .for example, to create
green using spot colors,you use one of pagemaker’s online colore liberies to
specify color.

7. What is process color?

Process colors are made from four basic colors combined in percentages to
create other colors .the four basic colors are Cyan Magenta,Yellow,Black.
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8. Define tint.
A tint is new color based on a percentage of color you created or based on
one of PageMaker’s default colors.

9. What is trapping?
 Trapping is a technique used to compensate for the gaps that can
between colors when creating color separations.
 The gap between colors is called [Link]
occurs when one or more of the colors in a multiple color process is
nit printed in exact alignment with the colors.

[Link] to create a separation?

 Separations are printouts on paper or film, one for each of the four
process colors.
 If you used spot colors, PageMaker prints out a separation for each
spot color applied to your publications.

[Link] field.
 A Field represents a unit of variable information.
 For example, a typically data source containing names and addresses
could include a separate field for each recipient’s name, street,
address, state or postal code.
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Unit- V

[Link] is index entries?

Index entry command to include a word or a group of words in an index. This

command adds an index marker next to the selected for inclusion in the text

[Link] index.

When planning a publication with many pages,we should consider adding an index
to help our readers find specific information in our document.

[Link] is index keyboard shortcuts?

We can use shortcuts that allow us to quickly add index. Using keyboard shortcuts
saves our time;however, we cannot see index markers because we are working in the
publication window instead of story editer.

[Link] is index shortcut menu?

We can use the change command shortcut in story [Link] command allows us
to index all occurrences of words or phrases with one command.

[Link] cross- reference.

Cross- references are helpful to readers who want to find related or additional
[Link] use the add index entry dialog box to identify cross-references.

6. List out any four index format options.

i)Following topic, ii)Between entries iii)Page range iv)Entry end

7. What is TOC?

Desining a Table Of Contents is as important as designing the index;however it is

generally less work since we have already created the main headings by the time we
generate the TOC.

[Link] is HTML?

HTML(hyper text markup language) is a computer language used to create files

known as web pages that can be viewed on the World Wide Web.
9. Define PDF.

PDF stands for portable document file. A publication saved in a PDF format retains
all page designs and layouts created in PageMAker and can be viewed and printed on most
computer platforms.

[Link] is Hyperlink?

A navigation scheme contains links to the main pages of a Web site. Most navigation
schemes include a link to the home page plus links either to the remaining pages in the web
site.

[Link] out any four URL types.

i)http:// ii)ftp:// iii)file:// iv)mailto:

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
QUESTION BANK
Subject: Page Maker
Subject code: 16RSBE4:1

UNIT I
TWO MARKS:
1. When was PageMaker introduced?
2. What is PageMaker for?
3. How many tools does PageMaker have?
4. What is computer DTP?
5. What are the tools of Pagemaker?
6. How to save a publication in PageMaker?
7. How to Work With Text in PageMaker?
8. How to Creating Columns in PageMaker?
9. What is the use of Place command in Pagemaker?
10. What is menu bar in Pagemaker?
11. What is standard toolbar?
12. How to Work With Text in PageMaker?
13. How do edit text in PageMaker?
14. How do change text color in PageMaker?

FIVE MARKS:
[Link] to Opening a publication ?Explain.
[Link] (i)Viewing the page maker program window
(ii)Setting the zero point and Using ruler guides.
[Link] Working with the Toolbox.
TEN MARKS:
[Link] explain (i) creating a new publication
(ii)Resizing and moving a graphic
(iii)Placing a graphic
[Link] (i)Adding text and lines
(ii)Formatting Text
(iii)Saving and printing a publication.

UNIT II
Two Mark Questions:
1. What is story Editor?
2. Define spelling.
3. How can you find the repeated words?
4. What is a Table?
5. What is Master page?
6. Define styles.
7. How can you rearrange pages?
8. What is masking object?
9. What are the difference between group and ungroup objects?
10. Define insert page.

Five Mark Questions:

1. How can you moving a graphics?
2. Explain creating a publication?
3. Write about open and save a publication.
4. Explain manipulating text block.
5. How can you import text?
6. Explain graphics and its advantages.

Ten Mark Questions:

1. Explain Formatting text.
2. Discuss about the creating column.
3. Explain moving and resizing text block.
4. Write about the dragging and insert text block.
5. How can you format a paragraph?
UNIT III
TWO MARKS
1. What are strokes?
2. Define cropping a graphic.
3. How to Rotating an object.
4. What are the arrange menu in PageMaker?
5. What is shadow box? How to create.
6. Define Frame.
7. What is Tracking?
8. What is Tabs and how to setting Tab?
9. What is use of Bullets and Numbering Plug-in?
10. Define Indents.

FIVE MARKS
1. How do you cropping a graphic and rotating an object?
2. Discuss the concept of bullets and numbering.

TEN MARKS
1. Enumerate the concept of Frame. In detail.
2. Describe the concept of strokes.

UNIT IV
TWO MARKS:
[Link] to create a proof version?
[Link] note on reference point
[Link] layers.
[Link] to using image control.
[Link] is information brochure?
[Link] spot color.
[Link] is process color?
[Link] tint.
[Link] is trapping?
[Link] to create a separation?
[Link] field.

FIVE MARKS:
[Link] to using color Library.
[Link] the control palette in object view.
[Link] to applying color to text and graphics.
[Link] color and creating a tint.
[Link] trapping colors.
[Link] notes on frames.
[Link] do you create frames?

TEN MARKS :
[Link] the mail merge in pagemaker.
[Link] to applying on skewing object and trapping colors .

UNIT- V
TWO MARKS
[Link] is index entries?
[Link] index.
[Link] is index keyboard shortcuts?
[Link] is index shortcut menu?
[Link] cross- reference.
6. List out any four index format options.
7. What is TOC?
[Link] is HTML?
9. Define PDF.
[Link] is Hyperlink?
[Link] out any four URL types.

FIVE MARKS
1. How to create a new publication document?
2. Explain the concept of editing index.
3. How do you creating a cross reference

TEN MARKS
1. How do you creating a table of contents? Explain.
2. Explain the following (i) Adding a cropcap (ii) Adding index entires.