Make a PDF with PageMaker

With Pagemaker you can create an advanced PDF file that can be used for easy directory navigation.

first step:

1. First you must install Adobe's PageMaker 6.5, which is a tool for making PDF. It is a document layout editing tool for Adobe's housekeeping. Powerful, it can typeset and produce exquisite illustrations and documents, which is suitable for large-scale document typesetting and printing production. Exporting a PDF file is only a small branch of its many functions. I'll take this out now and use it to make beautiful PDF files. At the same time, it must be noted that when installing PageMaker 6.5, Acrobat Distiller is essential in the custom installation options. The key to its function is to convert PS files into PDF files.

2. Then you must have a Postscript printer for PageMaker. The printer driver must include a PPD file. (The PPD file provides information about the user's Postscript printer. It includes a list of the printer's native font, paper size, screen, and resolution capabilities. This information is provided by the printer manufacturer and reflects the most common configuration of the device. If you do not have PPD file support, you must find the manufacturer to upgrade your printer program. Speaking so much nonsense, think about the other friend who went to buy a Postscript printer. Is there no printer? Obviously there are ways. In fact, the solution is very simple. (This is the short cut that I took half a day to study.) You can find a Postscript-ready printer driver in the Windows 98 installation and install it on your system. You don't even need to have any printer. But what kind of printer supports Postscript? Tell you about it. KODAK series can be.

The second step:

Well, ready for the first step, you can start to do PDF files. For simplicity and clarity of examples, I don't add as much text or graphics in my examples. In fact, the operation of adding text patterns requires your familiarity with PageMaker, and its operation is not very complicated, and is very similar to other typesetting programs. I will focus on how to create a more complicated file that contains multiple interfaces and can be navigated through directory navigation.

1. Launch PageMaker, file--new--the following interface appears; This is the page setup interface for text. Note that I set the page number of the file to 5 pages and the start page number to 1. This is more important. When generating a PDF file, the starting page must be 1 so that it does not cause coding confusion.

2. Then you can freely edit the documents you need in PageMaker's editing interface. PageMaker's editing capabilities are so powerful that you can insert frames of various sizes anywhere in the page. And arbitrarily move to a random position. You can easily insert various formats of graphics, documents, links, and even QuickTime format animations. How to vividly use PageMaker's powerful features to make a beautiful document depends entirely on your artistic ability. I will not introduce one by one about the specific operation of PageMaker, and a friend in need can consult the relevant instructions. I still talk specifically about our specific question - how to create a text containing a directory index. Now, for convenience, we have created a document with five pages. On the first page we are left free as a directory guide page. Suppose we start editing the document from the second page. We first select the second page, use the area tool to draw a rectangular box, and then use the text input tool to locate the box, enter the text 1 LEVEL. Then select the rectangle as a whole, copy one, and paste them on the third, fourth and fifth pages respectively. Finally, edit the text box and change it to the corresponding title. After the title is edited, you can insert various texts, graphics, and animations you need in other places, depending on your personal preferences.

3. Next is the key to the entire directory design. Our goal is to automatically generate a directory that can be hyperlinked. Now we set it up. First select type--paragraph to set the paragraph properties. Be sure to select "Include in table of contents" where the mouse is pointed, and allow it to be added to the directory (focus.). Then we select type→define styles to edit a paragraph style. You can design a new style based on your own requirements for the title section, or you can edit a new style. The main thing is to be sure to select the paragraph option when editing, and select "Include in table of contents". Finally, we need to select each title box in turn. Note that after inserting the text edit input point in the title box, select type-style--"you edited paragraph style".

4. Now we can automatically generate a title list. Select Utilities--Create TOC(Create table of Content). Select the properties of the directory in the following dialog box. You can define the name of the directory and the page number that does not need to indicate the title. We select Page number after entry to compile the page number after the directory search. Select the first page and place the directory box in the appropriate place. If nothing else, you should see the directory below. (Okay, our editorial work is over here, remember to save it. You can take a break, drink some water, and go to the next section to finish outputting the PDF file.

third step:

You're done. Before outputting the PDF text, you can set the printer's attributes, which will not be described in detail. Select file→export--adobe PDF, you will see the following dialog box; here you can set the properties and output control of the PDF file, the options are relatively simple, mostly related to the attributes of the font, control and print page, you can Your own preferences need to be set. We checked include downloadable fonts to allow downloading of fonts. Select distill now to convert immediately. Select view PDF using , specify what to open the generated PDF text to browse, here we set to adobe acrobat 4.0 After setting, click export to start the conversion. PageMaker will automatically convert the edited page into a postscript PS file, start distiller and convert the PS file into a PDF file, and then automatically open the generated PDF file. You can see the effect of the generated file. A PDF text with a full catalog index is generated. Click on the table of contents in the quoting window or browsing window and 1 level will be linked to the corresponding 2 pages. 1,2,3. Convenient and fast, a more complex PDF text is ready.

Source: Flying Bird Software Guide