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Week 8/May 22

Lesson 7: Recreational Catalog
This week we plunge into the deep, dark mysteries of color printing. As you will see, there's a lot more than meets the eye to the job of preparing a high quality color publication for a commercial printing press. In particular, we'll explore the use of process color separations to create a full rainbow of colors from just four inks. Then we'll have to deal with the issue of registration and trapping, which arises when printing overlapping colors. In addition, Lesson 7 introduces several new PageMaker features:

  • Kodak Photo CD. One of the first, and still one of the best, ways to store high quality photos on digital media. PageMaker lets you edit and place photos directly from a Photo CD.

  • Inline Graphics, which are like any other placed graphics except that they are inserted into a text block using the text cursor, and consequently stay "inline" with the text.

  • Paragraph Rules. A nifty way to create filled boxes behind your headlines, they streamline formatting and stay with the type when it moves (and can be saved as a style!).

  • Links Manager. As you may have noticed, every time you place a graphic in a PageMaker file, you have a choice of embedding the new file or just linking to it. Linking is better (it keeps down the file size), but when you go to print, you better be able to find those links!

  • Preparing files for a prepress service provider. Most PageMaker jobs consist of several, perhaps dozens of, files; i.e., fonts, graphics, colors, etc.. The printer needs them all to successfully print your job. Fortunately, there's a plug-in to pull them all together.

What you need to know about Lesson 7:
In order to successfully complete this assignment, you need to make sure you have the following features installed on your system (they should already be there if you performed typical install of PageMaker 7 and Classroom in a Disk files):

  • Kodak CMS, or Color Management System (on the PageMaker 7.0 installation disk)

  • Kodak Photo CD Import Filter (on the PageMaker 7.0 installation disk)

  • Adobe Acrobat Distiller (on the PageMaker 7.0 installation disk)

  • Agfa 9800 PPD, or Postscript Printer Description (on the Classroom in a Disk CD ROM)

To see an example of the PDF Separations file, click here.

Please let me know if you have any trouble finding or using any of these tools. The final exercise of this lesson is to create a PDF file of color separations. Please send this file to me by noon Monday, May 29.

Final Project: Student's Choice
Lesson 7 is our last project in Adobe PageMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book. Your next, and final, project is free play; you get to design and produce a PageMaker publication of your own choosing. This can be a newsletter, a booklet, a brochure, a business report, or any other project that interests you. For more information on the Student Project, click here.

This week in the Conference Room:
Don't forget to check into the Discussion Board this week to ask questions or discuss issues that come up as you work through your PageMaker lessons. Don't be shy; let's talk!

Questions about how to do your lessons?
 Check out Weekly Lesson Plan for tips on the correct way to complete and submit your assignments. Be sure to follow the e-mail guidelines for all e-mail messages and file attachments you send to Bill.

 

assignment 7:

Complete to turn in:
Lesson 7: Recreational Catalog (pp. 212-241). Send final version of file: PDF Separations.

Deadline:
Monday, May 29

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