The following article was published by Aldus (as far as I know) and delineates the additions to Aldus Pagemaker 5.0. Geof. ============================================================================== ALDUS PAGEMAKER 5.0 Macintosh and Windows ABSOLUTE PUBLISHING POWER NEW FEATURES IN 5.0! Aldus(R) PageMaker(R) 5.0 gives you absolute power to produce professional-quality publications. With more than 100 new or enhanced features, PageMaker 5.0 delivers remarkable advancements in control, integration, and versatility. Version 5.0 introduces many new features for increased productivity and greater freedom of design, chief among them incremental rotation of both text and graphics, the ability to open and work on more than one publication at a time, and built-in process-color separation. What's more, the Control palette and Aldus Additions technology, both brand- new under Windows and significantly enhanced for the Macintosh version, offer you the creative freedom and performance you need to design and produce world-class publications of virtually any kind. MAXIMUM PRECISION AND CONTROL Rotation and skewing of text and graphics in 0.01! increments Horizontal and vertical reflection of objects Intuitive Control palette to position, scale, or crop objects and select thetype attributes of individual characters or whole paragraphs Numerically exact positioning and rotation of any object, from its center or any handle Specific "nudge" amounts for exact positioning Incrementally rotated inline graphics Cropping of rotated objects Text mode of the palette visible in layout or story editor views Numeric kerning Baseline shift Process-color separations of PageMaker text and graphics, as well as imported CMYK TIFF*, DCS, and EPS images, all without leaving PageMaker Nonconsecutive page-range printing Object-level overprinting of PageMaker graphics Printing scalable up to 1600% Virtually unlimited thumbnails, including from PCL printers Automatic centering of the page on whatever paper you're using More printers' marks, including date/time stamping, color- control strips, and density-control bars on separations Overprinting for any spot or process color or tint Spot-to-process conversion at printing Choice of printing individual inks of process-color separations Automatic scaling of the page to the paper size Separate line and fill attributes Choice of transparent or opaque dash lines Support for up to 18 language dictionaries, plus any number of installable hyphenation dictionaries New search-and-replace capabilities for a character's position and case Sophisticated kerning and track editing EFFORTLESS INTEGRATION FEATURES Many new or improved filters, including: - PICT-to-Metafile and Metafile-to-PICT conversions - DXF, WPG, Kodak Photo CD - GEM and Ventura Publisher% OLE, using PageMaker as a client application Ability to embed EPS files in a publication or leave them out, still linked for ease of updating Images scanned directly into the PageMaker publication, using the new TWAIN standard Font mapping for identifying missing fonts in a publication and substituting others, using the PANOSE* editable font- translation list % With PageMaker 5.0 for Windows only ** With PageMaker 5.0 for the Macintosh only NEW FEATURES IN 5.0 UNPARALLELED VERSATILITY Custom line weights from 0.1 to 800 points Proprietary color libraries, including PANTONE(* (spot, process, and Euroscale), Trumatch, Focoltone, and Dainippon Ability to create you own color libraries and reuse them Spot colors, process colors, or tints of either ALDUS ADDITIONS Extend PageMaker's capabilities for specific publishing scenarios, simplify and speed up routine tasks, or write your own Addition scripts to further customize PageMaker. Both versions of PageMaker 5.0 come with a wide range of easy-to-install Additions, each addressing common publishing needs: CREATING DESIGN/PRODUCTION SHORTCUTS - Build Booklet - Drop Cap - Group It - Keyliner - Open Template - Printer Styles - Sort Pages MANAGING TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY - Add Cont'd Line - Balance Columns - Bullets and Numbering - Convert Ventura File - Edit All Stories - Edit Tracks - Expert Kerning - Find Overset Text - List Styles Used - Running Headers/Footers - Traverse Text Blocks GETTING INFORMATION ABOUT TEXT - Display Pub Info - Display Story Info - Display Text Block Info GAINING ACCESS TO ADDITION SCRIPTS - Run Script - Run Script Repeatedly** AN EVEN MORE NATURAL, INTUITIVE INTERFACE Ability to open and work on as many Page-Maker publications as your system will allow Ability to "drag and drop" text and objects among open publications Tile and Cascade features for organizing publications on the screen Listing of all open publications for easily navigating among open publications Library palette for storing common images (with "drag and drop") Compatibility with Aldus( Fetch* image cataloging and retrieval program` Custom magnification (up to 800%) for zooming in to a particular part of the page Ability to edit rotated text directly in a layout (even the cursor is rotated!) Automatic text flow, without having to display every page Keyboard shortcuts quickly accessible in the Control palette Automatic resizing of Indents/tabs ruler according to the size of your screen display Global preferences for story editor settings Easily removable ruler guides Redesigned print dialog boxes Helpful suggestions from the PostScript error handler to help solve common printing problems Color swatches on the improved Colors palette Automatic appearance of colors used inimported EPS files Visual distinction between process colors, spot colors, tints, and imported EPS colors Line and fill settings specifiable on Colors palette SYSTEM RECOMMENDATIONS WINDOWS On an IBM or compatible PC, Aldus PageMaker 5.0 requires Microsoft Windows 3.1 (or later) and Windows 3.1-compatible hardware. A 486- or 386-based computer is recommended, with 4MB of RAM, an 80MB hard drive, a high-resolution graphics adaptor card, and a mouse. A PostScript-language or PCL laser printer, color printer, or imagesetter is required for output. MACINTOSH On the Apple Macintosh, PageMaker is System 7 savvy. It also runs under System 6.0.7 with Finder 6.1.7 or later. Any Macintosh II series, Quadra, or SE/30 computer is recommended, with 5P8MB of RAM and an 80MB hard drive. A color, grayscale, or black-and-white device, such as a PostScript-compatible or QuickDraw-compatible laser printer, or a PostScript-language imagesetter, is required for output. NEW UNDER WINDOWS (contained in Mac PM 4.2) PageMaker 5.0 is, of course, file-compatible on the Macintosh and Windows platforms, and the new and enhanced features shown elsewhere on this brochure apply to both versions. In addition, users of PageMaker for Windows will appreciate these new features, which first appeared in PageMaker 4.2 for the Macintosh: FOR PRECISION AND CONTROL . . . Automatic true typographers' quotation marks Baseline-to-baseline leading Multiple-paste command, speeding up step-and-repeat work FOR VERSATILITY . . . Page sizes up to 42" x 42" Option to unlink files Standalone Dictionary Editor utility No limit to the number of copies printed at once AND, ON THE FAMOUS PAGEMAKER INTERFACE . . . "Apply" button in the Indents/tabs dialog box Keyboard shortcuts for applying styles Options to save files faster or smaller Interruptible screen redraw Double-click shortcut to reset zero point Aldus Corporation 411 First Avenue South Seattle, WA 98104-2871 U.S.A. Tel. (1) 206 628 2320 (C)1992 Aldus Corporation. All rights reserved. Aldus, the Aldus logo, and PageMaker are registered trademarks and Fetch and TIFF are trademarks of Aldus Corporation. Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks and Finder, Quadra, QuickDraw, and System 7 are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. PANOSE is a trademark of the typeface matching system from ElseWare Corporation. ElseWare Corporation takes no responsibility for the mapping results of the fonts that do not also bear the PANOSE trademark. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Other product and corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of other companies, and are used only for explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe.