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The following article was published by Aldus (as far as I know) and
delineates the additions to Aldus Pagemaker 5.0.
Geof.
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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.