| OverviewYou've added Adobe PageMaker7.0 to your digital studio (or
plan to). Now pick up the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way
to master the award-winning page-layout program-Adobe PageMaker
7.0 Classroom in a Book. This bestselling, hands-on workbook
and CD package delivers something no other guide can: Adobe's
official training series, developed by the company's own
experts and tested in its classrooms and labs. Each chapter is a self-paced lesson, based on real-world design
projects. And each project builds on the skills you learn in
previous lessons. For example, you may start by creating a
single-page, black-and-white flyer, then quickly progress to more
challenging projects, such as designing professional-quality
letterhead, an eight-page CD booklet, a sports catalog, a Web-based
newsletter, and more. Along the way, you'll learn to take
advantage of version 7.0's new features, including its
seamless integration with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, its
ability to merge text and images from database and spreadsheet
programs, and the way it now allows you to view and create PDFs, as
well as open and edit QuarkXPress documents. Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionHands-on workbook and CD package delivers something no other guide can: Adobe's official training series, developed by the company's own experts and tested in its classrooms and labs. Softcover. CD-ROM included. | Amazon.com ReviewAs 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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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 20 reviews. Adobe Pagemaker 7.0, Classroom in a Book, 2008-11-04 Reviewer rating: 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 program, and far more exhaustive than ordinary self-learning books on the topic. You can be confident in applying the power of the program in practical situations. I recommend it highly. | Very Frustrating, 2007-03-31 Reviewer rating: 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 with this book alone. I know this is supposed to be one of the better books out there, and it may be good for tips for those who are more experienced, but if you are a beginner like me, I STRONGLY suggest that you find another book! | Where is the Birch Fornt?, 2005-06-10 Reviewer rating: 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 your Dreams! Try 3 to 4 hours. There is a set of mysterious fonts one of which is Birch thus the tittle of this review which certainly wasn't on the accompaning CD which is used through out the book. Has anyone ever found this mythical font. I was a good boy and loaded the fonts in Adobe Type Manager off of the CD and starting in lession 2 I didn't have the Birch font. Trusting soul that I am I loaded the CD back in the drive opened ATM and the birch font was nowhere to be found. If anyone has located it please tell me, I am sure it was one of things Adobe put in the book but not on the CD to drive users crazy, and for me that is a short trip.
Over all the content was good and the example give you a good overall feel of the product. | PageMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book, 2004-07-27 Reviewer rating: 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 thing is terrible, but when you spend hours because of omissions or mistakes trying to do what should only take a few minutes, it is frustrating. I do not recommend this book to anyone new to the application because unlike some of the reviewers, I do not know where to find the missing fonts. I also do not know enough about the application to know when I've followed the lessons and have gotten bad the results that it is not because I have made a mistake, but because the instructions were incomplete. So I found myself starting over and over again with the hope of getting it right. Frustrating! | Classroom In A Book - still the best series!, 2003-05-07 Reviewer rating: If you're the sort who likes to buy software and then use it without consulting the manual you probably own a Mac. That's fine, because that is precisely what the folks at Apple wanted to produce, a computer that needs no manual! Still, the software that goes on that Mac or on that manual-required-before-you-start Windows=driven PC can get downright ornery. And the accompanying manual is as confusing as some passages in the Bible! If you're one of the rest of us and have bought an Adobe product, I advise you to get the Classroom In A Book tutorial. The book and accompanying cd are terrific for any new pagemaker user. If you work for on on a newspaper, newsletter or magazine you also should get Publication Production Using Pagemaker. The two go great together. |
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