Welcome to Adobe¿ PageMaker¿ 6.0. This file contains late-breaking information not found in the printed documentation or in the online Help included with PageMaker. It contains the following sections:
Ñ INSTALLATION, SYSTEM, AND MEMORY ISSUES
Ñ UNDOCUMENTED FEATURES
Ñ MONITOR CALIBRATION
Ñ KNOWN PROBLEMS WITH PAGEMAKER AND COMPONENTS
For additional information on PageMaker╒s import and export filters, see the Filters ReadMe in the Adobe PageMaker 6.0 folder.
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INSTALLATION, SYSTEM, AND MEMORY ISSUES
Ñ Some external Read/Write CD drives (such as the Pinacle Micro CD drive) can have difficulty completing PageMaker installation. If you cannot complete installation from a Read/Write CD drive, use a read-only CD drive or install from floppy disks instead.
Ñ Do not assign all available RAM to your PageMaker partition. Check the Largest Unused Block value in About this Macintosth (under the Apple menu) and make sure that the preferred size of your PageMaker partition is set to at least 1MB less than this value.
Ñ The online registration portion of PageMaker installation may hang if you have the QuickDraw GX extension running during installation. If you have this extension installed, be sure to disable it before running the PageMaker 6 Installer/Utility.
Ñ We recommend that you upgrade to System 7.5.1 because of a possible conflict with System 7.5 and OLE that sometimes causes system software to consume all available RAM.
Ñ If you have SAM Virus Clinic 4.0.x installed, you may get a false alert for the Trojan Horse Virus when you launch PageMaker. Symantec is aware of the problem with the virus protection software and it should be fixed in the next update of SAM (v. 4.0.5).
Ñ The EHelp application that comes with PageMaker requires 1536k of RAM to start up and display PageMaker online Help screens. Depending on the amount of RAM you have installed, you may need to quit other applications to run EHelp, or quit EHelp to run other applications along with PageMaker.
Ñ The Adobe Table application is not registered by PageMaker as an OLE Server until you launch and quit Adobe Table for the first time (or if you are using a Power Macintosh, launch and quit both PageMaker and Adobe Table). Thereafter, PageMaker makes Adobe Table available in the Insert Object dialog box.
Ñ The PageMaker installer updates your system with Chooser version 7.3 if you have an earlier version of the Chooser. The printer driver 8.2.1 installed by PageMaker needs Chooser 7.3 to print correctly.
Ñ If you install from the Deluxe CD, the file ╥PageMaker 6.0 Installation Map.PDF╙ is available. This document consists of a comprehensive and annotated list of the files installed by the PageMaker 6 Installer/Utility.
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UNDOCUMENTED FEATURES
The following components of PageMaker were not documented in other printed or online pieces:
Ñ The Pub Info plug-in, identical to the version that shipped with PageMaker 5.0, is available in PageMaker 6.0. This plug-in lets you view or save a report on the current publication, with status information on the linked files, paragraph styles, and fonts necessary to print the publication. Choose Utilities > PageMaker Plug-ins > Pub Info.
Ñ Scripts Palette comes with several useful scripts installed automatically. (The exact number of scripts depends on the kind of installation you chose when installing PageMaker.) Even more sample scripts are in the Technical Library folder on the Adobe PageMaker 6.0 Deluxe CD-ROM. This section briefly describes how the script folders are arranged and what each script accomplishes. Choose Window > Scripts Palette, and click the Scripts folder to view the following additional folders and scripts available:
Color:
Add 256 System colors. Loads the Color palette with predefined colors from the Operating System.
Add rich black. Adds the color Rich black to the Color palette. The color definition is 100% process Black; 50 % Cyan; and 50% Yellow.
Add Varnish plate. Adds a new color to the color palette for creating varnishes.
Remove unused. Removes each color from the publication╒s color palette that is not currently applied to text or graphics in the active publication. (An imported color EPS file must be deleted before its unused colors can be removed with this script.)
Layout:
The next four scripts add non-printing ruler guides to indicate the page borders.
Edge guides, letter tall.
Edge guides, letter wide
Edge guides, tabloid tall
Edge guides, tabloid wide
Plug-ins:
[Each script in this folder opens the corresponding plug-in installed with PageMaker]
Add Cont╒d Line
Balance Columns
Build Booklet
Bullets & Numbering
Create Color Library
Drop Cap
Guide Manager
HTML Author
Keyline
Open Template
Running Headers & Footers
Update PPD
Printing:
(Note: the following scripts that apply bleeds are set up for letter-tall page size. If you want to use a different page size, you must edit the scripts.)
Add .5" (12mm) bleed off bottom. Extends the selected graphic vertically so that it creates a half-inch bleed off the page. (Not available for Canadian English.)
Add .5" (12mm) bleed off left edge. Extends the selected graphic to the left so that it creates a half-inch bleed off the left side of the page. (Not available for Canadian English.)
Add .5" (12mm) bleed off right edge. Extends the selected graphic to the right so that it creates a half-inch bleed off the right side of the page. (Not available for Canadian English.)
Add .5" bleed off top. Extends the selected graphic vertically so that it creates a half-inch bleed off the top edge of the page. (Not available for International or Canadian English.)
Export for prepress. Adds a printer style (a collection of Print dialog box settings) to the PageMaker Printer Style menu. You can use this style as is or edit it to suit your needs. Its settings are defined to create a .SEP file for use in a post-processing application such as Adobe TrapWise. The PPD Color General is specified for the publication.
Text:
fi ligature replacement. Finds each instance of the two-letter combinations ╥fi╙ in the active publication and replaces it with the single ligature character for finer typography.
fl ligature replacement. Finds each instance of the two-letter combinations ╥fl╙ in the active publication and replaces it with the single ligature character for finer typography.
Styles:
Remove default styles. Deletes the default paragraph styles defined for new publications.
Trapping:
95% gray as black. Lowers the Black Limit value in the Trapping Options dialog box to 95% so that a lighter black (with │ 95% Process Black in its color definition) is still trapped as a solid black. This lets you compensate for dot-gain when using low-grade paper stock.
Overprint all black objects. Specifies that black text, fills, and lines overprint throughout the publication. You choose Utilities > Trapping Options to manually change the settings back again.
Overprint black lines and fills. Specifies that black lines and fills overprint throughout the publication. You choose Utilities > Trapping Options to manually change the settings back again.
Overprint black text. Specifies that black text overprints. You choose Utilities > Trapping Options to manually change the settings back again.
Turn trapping off. Disables trapping (but not overprinting) for the active publication.
Turn trapping on. Enables trapping for the active publication.
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MONITOR CALIBRATION
Instructions for using the Gamma control panel appear on pages 16-17 of the Adobe PageMaker Getting Started manual. This section describes how to use two test files provided with the utility to help calibrate your monitor accurately. (This test was inaccurately documented in the Getting Started manual.)
--1) Follow the instructions on pages 16-17 of the Adobe PageMaker Getting Started manual.
--2) Place "Gamma 1.8.tif" into PageMaker.
--3) Look at the image from a distance of 3-6 feet. If the monitor is correctly calibrated, the smaller boxes blend in with the larger boxes surrounding them. If the smaller boxes don't blend into the larger boxes, return to the Gamma control panel window and move the Gamma Adjustment setting in the control panel window until the smaller boxes blend into the larger boxes.
If your monitor is set up for special conditions and does not have a target gamma of 1.8, you can place the image file "CurrentGamma.tif" to determine--by viewing where on the chart the boxes blend into the background--the current setting of your monitor. The number that marks the place on the chart where the boxes blend into the background indicates the target gamma.
Note: PageMaker also includes, for color management purposes, a standalone utility which can create a device profile for your monitor: the Kodak Monitor Installer. This utility is installed in the Utilities folder within the RSRC folder.
-- OLE 2.0 has incompatibilities when mixing 68k emulated and Power Macintosh native applications. Drag and drop, for example, will only work if both the source and the client application are either native or emulated.
-- The Apple Menu Options control panel versions earlier than version 1.0.2 can cause the left-most menus to disappear in PageMaker and in some other applications under certain conditions. This only occurs with System 7.5 and 7.5.1. To avoid the problem, upgrade to a new version.
-- EPS files with OPI links from Macromedia FreeHand 5.0 files do not Print from PageMaker. This problem is not corrected with the Macromedia FreeHand 5.0.1 updater available from Macromedia.
-- Norton Directory Assistance (part of the Norton Utilities II package) can cause PageMaker and some other applications to crash.
Ñ Text
-- The Drop Cap plug-in only applies the enlarged initial cap to one paragraph at a time (not to multiple paragraphs as stated in the Adobe PageMaker 6.0 User Guide). You can click the Next button in the Drop Cap dialog box to move to the next paragraph to apply a drop cap to that paragraph.
-- PageMaker Tags: Do not type a quote mark within a macro. Even if correctly escaped, the quote will cause the Tags Import filter to report a syntax error.
Ñ Graphics
-- Adobe Illustrator files must be saved or exported as EPS files to be imported into PageMaker. If you try to import the native Illustrator file directly, PageMaker responds with an alert.
-- The library palettes you create in PageMaker 5.0 cannot be used in PageMaker 6.0, and vice versa. The workaround is to place the contents of a PageMaker 5.0 library into a single publication, convert the publication to PageMaker 6.0, and drag the library items into a newly create library. Keyword, title, and other information about each library item is not retained when you use this workaround, however.
-- Native Photoshop plug-ins that shipped with Photoshop 2.5 and 3.0 are not available through the PageMaker command Element > Image > Photoshop Effects. (Other effects such as Kai╒s Power Tools and Gallery Effects are.) You can, however, use the native filters supplied with version 3.0.4 of Photoshop or later.
-- If you use the keyboard shortcut for maximum TIFF compression for RGB, CMYK, or grayscale images (Command + Option + OK), the actual result is moderate compression.
Ñ Color and Color Management
-- A greater number of CMS Precision Transforms (PTs) is available from the PageMaker installer on the Deluxe CD than on the floppy disk set. You can also choose to generate a PT for a variety of monitors with the Kodak Monitor Installer, which is installed in the Utilities folder within the RSRC folder.
-- Kodak device profiles are provided subject to the terms and conditions of the Adobe Systems Incorporated End User License Agreement (the "Agreement"). Notwithstanding any other provision of the Agreement, however, you may copy and distribute source Precision Transforms, but ONLY if they are: 1) embedded with an image or publication, 2) sent to a service provider along with an image or publication for use exclusively with the image or publication.
-- Color trapping does not work for opaque lines (that is, lines that do not have the Transparent Background setting checked in the Fill and Lines dialog box, or in the Lines menu).
Ñ Create Adobe PDF
-- Deselect the Reader Spreads option in the Print dialog box before you use the Create Adobe PDF feature. Otherwise, hypertext links and bookmarks in the PDF file jump to incorrect locations.
-- On some 68k Macintosh models, Adobe Distiller does not restore focus back to PageMaker while Distiller processes a .PS file delivered by the Create Adobe PDF command. The computer appears to be hung until the distillation is complete.
-- Several settings in the Create Adobe PDF dialog boxes are not remembered. If you repeatedly change Link and Bookmark settings (through the Create Adobe PDF command) for a publication, note that the changed settings are not consistently remembered each time you open the Create Adobe PDF dialog box. Be sure the Link and Bookmark settings are set accurately when you click OK to create the PDF file.
-- If you choose to save a PDF file out to the root-directory of a non-startup drive, the file actually writes to the root of the startup drive instead.
-- For best color fidelity between a PageMaker publication and its PDF version, define colors with the CMYK model before you use Create Adobe PDF to create the PDF. Colors defined with the RGB model can change color in the PDF version of the file.
Ñ HTML Author Plug-in
-- Version 1.0 of this component includes several known problems described here. Updated versions will be made available on the World Wide Web for downloading and may correct some or all of these problems, as well as include enhancements and new features. Check the Adobe Home Page (http://www.Adobe.com) periodically to find an updated version of the HTML Author Plug-in.
-- Before starting work on an HTML document, contact the administrator of the World Wide Web server you will be using for information on the server name and directory path of your home page. In addition, if you will place graphics into PageMaker publications for export to HTML, place them in a folder on your web directory. Do the same for any other files to which hyperlinks in your HTML document will jump.
-- Hyperlinked text or graphics that are deleted in a PageMaker publication can appear erroneously as broken links in the HTML Author plug-in dialog boxes.
-- If the last set of characters in a text block is made into a hyperlink, the HTML document will unnecessarily display the paragraph style name immediately following the hyperlinked text.
-- Hyperlinks to anchors jump to the top of the page on which the anchor appears in the PageMaker publication. To ensure that hypertext links jump to the expected anchor locations, try this workaround: Design your publication with the Author's anchoring scheme in mind. Position text that you want to use as an anchor at the top of a new PageMaker story. To ensure appropriate spacing, put each story on a new PageMaker page.
-- To keep hyperlinks from breaking, create them only after completing editing, placing graphics, and adding HTML styles to a PageMaker publication.
-- The first and last character in a text block cannot be made into a hyperlink. Inline graphics are treated as characters as well. To work around this, use a hard carriage return before the first character or after the last character prior to making a hyperlink.
-- When paragraph-level HTML styles have been applied, then the character-level attributes of bold, italic, and underline can be applied to text. Netscape does not support the <U> underline tag that PageMaker exports to HTML. MacWeb and Mosiac do. These attributes work most reliably when only one is applied to text.
-- Apply styles only after you finish typing text or you may get unexpected results.
-- Any edits you make to HTML styles in PageMaker will not be reflected in your HTML document.
-- Browsers will convert all HTML Author hyperlink preferences (color, underline, bold, italic) so that they display with a blue underline.
-- Graphics must be placed, rather than copied, into a PageMaker publication. PageMaker changes the creator type of graphics that are copied and pasted; consequently, HTML Author cannot export them to HTML.
-- During export, HTML Author inserts an empty line into paragraphs that are broken at the end of a page in PageMaker. To avoid this, do one of the following:
1) Open the publication in SimpleText and delete <P> tags inserted within paragraphs.
2) Place all graphics as inlines and export the publication as stories in HTML Author.
-- The Adobe PageMaker 6.0 User Guide indicates that only GIFs can be used as inline graphics. Currently, both GIF and JPEG formats are fully supported by HTML Author, depending on the browser you use. The Guide also indicates that you can have up to 500 links, which is incorrect; create no more than 50 links.
Ñ Other Plug-ins
-- Important: Before using the Build Booklet plug-in, do the following: 1) unlock all objects in your publication, and 2) if you have non-printing objects in your publication, select Display Non-Printing Objects in the Layout menu.
-- Build Booklet incorrectly imposes crossovers (objects that span facing pages) if text wrap is applied to the crossover. For those pages, re-create the design by using two objects (one on each page) instead of a single object spanning two pages.
-- The Open Template plug-in creates a calendar which you can update with scripts that automatically number the days of any month for the next several years. To run the scripts, however, you must move them from the Plug-ins: Templates: Calendar Scripts folder to the Plug-ins: Scripts folder. This makes them available directly from the Scripts Palette. For more information, see the Days ReadMe stored with the Calendar Scripts.
-- The EPS Font Scanner plug-in does not warn of missing fonts within EPS graphics if SuperATM Font substitution is enabled in the ATM control panel.
-- Some Gallery Effects plug-ins do not support CMYK TIFF files.
Ñ Photo CD Import Filter
-- The default import resolution for Photo CD images is based on the target printer resolution (DPI) set in the PageMaker Document Setup dialog box. The filter maps that resolution to an expected lines-per-inch (LPI) setting for that resolution device, multiplies that LPI by two, and displays that number as the DPI in the Photo CD import filter dialog box. This is the resolution at which the image will be imported. However, you can override this setting in the Photo CD import filter dialog box.
Ñ Printing
-- If you book-print two publications with different custom-page sizes, and the Use Paper Setting of Each Publication option is selected in the Print dialog box, the output pages are shifted and cropped. Please print the two publications separately.
-- To print a PageMaker publication that contains OLE-embedded tables created in Adobe Table 2.5, you must have Adobe Table installed on your machine. Be sure that you have launched and quit Adobe Table at least once since installation before printing. If you are using PageMaker for the Power Macintosh, it is important that PageMaker and Adobe Table have both been registered in the OLE database on your computer. One way to ensure that both applications have proper OLE registration is to launch and then quit PageMaker, and then launch and quit Adobe Table. This ensures you'll be able to print high-resolution versions of the OLE-embedded tables.
-- Printing a publication that contains an EPS created in PageMaker 4.x will cause a printing error.
-- EPS files created in Macromedia FreeHand 5.0 and 5.01 do not contain correct OPI comments, and bitmaps contained within them will not print from PageMaker 6.0. To correct this problem, include the bitmap image in the EPS file and move the external bitmap files to a different location on your hard drive before printing from PageMaker. In FreeHand, before exporting the EPS file, move the page to be exported as an EPS to the extreme lower-left corner of the pasteboard in the page view of the Inspector.
-- Images don't print properly on process separations when FreeHand's default black is applied to an EPS file placed in PageMaker. To avoid this problem, apply process black to the EPS in FreeHand.
-- Versions of Adobe Type Manager (ATM) prior to 3.9 may cause "out of memory" errors when printing PostScript files containing large numbers of fonts.
-- Versions of the Adobe PSPrinter PostScript driver for the Macintosh prior to 8.3, and Apple LaserWriter drivers up to and including 8.3, when run with Apple System 7.5.1 on a PowerPC, may cause problems when printing PICT graphics from PageMaker 6.0. To avoid this problem, update to the Adobe PSPrinter 8.3 driver when it becomes available.
-- In PageMaker 5.0, if you deleted one or more of the default Red, Green, and Blue colors from the Color palette, saved the publication, and then imported a story from that publication into another PageMaker 5.0 publication, a blank color with no name would appear in the Color palette just under the registration color. This problem could result in TIFFs not printing when the publication was separated to CMYK plates. If you open the publication in PageMaker 6.0, you may still have a problem when you print separations of TIFF images. To correct the problem, click the Remove Unused Colors button in the Define Colors dialog box. If this option doesn't work, create and run a script with the following command:
removecolor ""
Ñ Fax Utilities
-- Most Fax drivers require you to use the Setup option in the PageMaker Print dialog box to select phone numbers, fax quality, and other options. If you do not do so, your fax may not be transmitted or may be transmitted using incorrect settings, or you may experience a system error.
-- Global Village GlobalFax software: When you select the Open Other option in the GlobalFax Addresses pop-up menu, your system will crash when you access the address book using the Setup option in the PageMaker Print dialog box. Open the address book in any other application to make it available in the pop-up menu when faxing from PageMaker.
-- Prometheus MaxFax software: After specifying Setup options in the PageMaker Print dialog box, the number of copies being sent is set to zero when you click OK in both of the MaxFax dialog boxes. Type the desired number of copies before proceeding.
Ñ Adobe Table
-- The Adobe Table application is not registered by PageMaker as an OLE server until you launch and quit Adobe Table for the first time (or if you are using a Power Macintosh, launch and quit both PageMaker and Adobe Table). Thereafter, PageMaker makes Adobe Table available in the Insert Object dialog box.
-- You can open Table Editor 1.01 files in Adobe Table, but note that extra paragraph returns are inserted in grouped cells. If this creates tables that are too large, ungroup the cells in the Table Editor before you convert the file.
-- Borders created with a hairline or .5 line weight will display and print as 1-point borders if the table is exported as PICT and printed from PageMaker.
-- If you use the Power Macintosh version of PageMaker to print a publication created on a 68k Macintosh, and the publication includes an embedded table from Adobe Table, you must make sure Adobe Table has been launched at least once on the computer you print from in order to print the table in high resolution.
-- The Paste Special command is not supported in Adobe Table for the Power Macintosh. The Inserting Object from File OLE option is not supported in either 68k Macintosh or Power Macintosh PageMaker. If you wish to use an existing table from Adobe Table in PageMaker, export it as a graphic from Adobe Table and place it in PageMaker using the Place command.
-- If you plan to add color to a table once it is placed in PageMaker, it is best to export the file from Table as an EPS rather than as a PICT.
-- Keep table dimensions to a maximum of 40"-by-40".
Ñ Documentation
-- The PageMaker Quick Reference Card erroneously implies that the keyboard shortcut for adding a page can insert more than one page a time.
-- The Getting Started manual, page 17, misstates the purpose of the image file ╥Gamma 1.8.tif.╙ It╒s actual purpose is to verify that you have correctly chosen the right gamma with the Gamma utility (as described on pages 16-17 of the Getting Started manual). See the Monitor Calibration section earlier in this ReadMe file.
-- The Script Language Guide (included on the Adobe PageMaker Deluxe CD-ROM) incorrectly states that you can enter a page-number marker by typing Command + Option + P.
-- The PageMaker 5.0 stories filter (documented on page 285 of the Adobe PageMaker User Guide) is not included in this version of PageMaker 6.0.
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