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ADOBE PAGEMAKER 6.5 TUTORIALS

Working with Frames

Frames are placeholders that let you design a

layout without actual text or graphics. You can

still work with text blocks and graphics as in

earlier versions of PageMaker, but you will

find that frames are useful for conceptualiz-

ing, structuring, and reusing layouts.

In this tutorial, you will use frames to com-

plete the next issue of a newsletter about toys.

The basic layout has been established using

frames, but additional stories need to be

added. You will learn to draw frames, and then

add text and graphics to them. You will also

change how text frames are threaded, and

change how a frame looks.

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Start Adobe PageMaker 6.5, and then insert

the Adobe PageMaker 6.5 CD-ROM. In Page-

Maker, choose File > Open. Select the

Frames.t65 file in the following location on the

CD-ROM: Tour Adobe PageMaker 6.5>

Tutori-

als>

2Frames. Click OK (Macintosh) or Open

(Windows).

The file is an untitled template, so now you

will save it with a name.

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Choose File > Save As, and type News-

letr.p65

. Specify a location on your hard disk,

and then click Save.

You will add frames to page 3 to get the layout

ready for a story you will add later.

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If light blue page guides are not visible,

choose View > Show Guides.

When you add frames to a page, they appear

with a default stroke and fill color and pattern.In this publication, weve set the frame default

to no fill and no stroke, which adds a non-

printing light-gray stroke around the frame

border. You can turn off the non-printing

stroke by choosing View > Hide Guides.

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Click the page 3 icon in the lower left corner

of the publication window. Select the rectangle

frame tool from the toolbox ( )and draw four

frames into columns as shown below.

To specify the flow of text through the frames,you will thread the text frames.

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With the pointer tool, select the first frame

you drew on page 3, and click its bottom win-

dowshade handle. Click the second frame to

drop the thread into it, then click its bottom

windowshade handle to pick up the thread.

Repeat for the third and fourth frames to

thread them all.

Plus signs in the windowshade handles indi-

cate that the frames are threaded.

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Select the first text frame after the Wacky

Animals headline, and then choose File >

Place. Select the Story3.rtf file in the 2Frames

folder in the Tutorials folder, make sure the

select the Within Frame option is selected, and

then click OK.

Now you will add a graphic in the middle of

the third column of page 3.

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Select the rectangle frame tool ( )and draw

two frames in the third column as shown

below.

The graphic you will add has already been

imported into the publication, so instead of

placing it into the frame, you will use the

Attach Content command.

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With the pointer tool, select the middle

frame in column 3, and then press Shift as you

select the building blocks graphic on the rightpasteboard. Choose Element > Frame > Attach

Content.

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ment > Frame > Frame Options. Choose Cen-

ter from the Vertical Alignment pop-up menu,

and then choose Center from the Horizontal

Alignment pop-up menu. Click OK.

Because you added a new frame for the story

at the end of column 3, you need to thread the

new frame into the text flow.

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With the pointer tool, select the topmost

text frame in column 3. Press Command +

Shift (Macintosh) or Ctrl + Shift (Windows),

and then click the selected frames bottom win-

dowshade handle. This breaks the thread to thenext frame and all the text rolls into the top-

most frame in column 3.

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With the topmost frame still selected, click

the bottom windowshade handle. The cursor

turns into the thread icon.

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With the thread icon, click in the bottom-

most frame in the third column. Click the bot-

tom windowshade handle of the same frame,

and then click the text frame at the top of the

fourth column.

A red triangle appears in the bottom window-

shade handle of the frame in the fourth col-

umn, indicating that there is still more text in

the Wacky Animals story than can fit in the

frames on page 3.

To solve this problem, you will continue the

story on page 4 by drawing a text frame thereand then threading this story to it.

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Go to page 4 and select the rectangle frame

tool from the toolbox. Draw a rectangle frame

in the rightmost column as shown.

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Go to page 3, use the pointer tool to select

the last frame of the Wacky Animals story, and

then click its bottom windowshade handle. Go

to page 4 and click the frame you just drew in

the last column. The unflowed text from the

Wacky Animals story appears in this frame.

Story is threaded from page 3 to page 4.

You will add a graphic of a dog to the lower

left corner of page 3. On page 2, there is a

frame containing a bowling-ball graphic.

Because the dog graphic will be centered in a

frame just like the bowling ball graphic, you

will copy the bowling ball frame as you drag it,

and then you will replace the bowling ball

with the dog.

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On page 2, press Control and Option

(Macintosh) or Ctrl and Alt (Windows), drag

the bowling ball frame to the right, and align

the copy of the bowling ball frame with the

lower left corner of the page margins on page 3.

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With the copy of the bowling ball frame

still selected, choose File > Place. Select the

Dog.tif file in the 2Frames folder in the Tutori-

als folder, select Replacing Frames Content,

and then click OK.

The green rectangle in the lower right corner

of page 3 was originally intended to hold a

graphic, but you now want it to hold text. You

will convert it to a text frame, then change itscolor.

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Select the green rectangle in the lower

right corner of page 3, and choose Element >

Frame > Change to Frame. Then choose File >

Place. Select the Story4.rtf file in the 2Frames

folder in the Tutorials folder, select the Within

Frame option, and then click OK.

Graphic changed to frame.

Frame after text added.

You can change the stroke and fill color for a

frame the same way you do for a basic shape

by using the Colors palette.

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Select the green frame in the lower right

corner of page 3. Choose Window > Show Col-

ors, click the fill icon on the Colors palette, and

click Yellow.

The newsletter is nearly complete. All that

remains is to align text correctly in the high-

lights column on page 1.

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Go to page 1. Select all five text frames in

the leftmost column.

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Choose Element > Frame > Frame

Options. Choose Bottom in the Vertical Align-

ment pop-up menu, and then click OK.

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Congratulations! Youve completed the

newsletter layout. Choose File > Save.

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