@HEADLINE = Aldus PC Pagemaker @BYLINE = Courtesy of the Aldus Forum on Compuserve PageMaker desktop publishing software integrates text and graphics, allowing PC users to design, edit and produce high-quality printed communications within an office setting. In combination with a laser printer, PageMaker produces near-typeset quality output at a fraction of the time and expense required by conventional production techniques. By bringing production in-house, it gives users greater flexibility and control throughout the design and production process. Payback on the $695 package is immediate and direct. Users frequently recover the full cost of the program in the savings on their very first job. Aldus Corporation has designed PageMaker to support the broadest range of hardware and software of any desktop publishing product on the market today. That advantage is expected to persist for three reasons. First, PageMaker has been written to support more word processing and graphics packages from the outset. Second, Aldus Corporation, as the recognized leader in desktop publishing, is working with other industry leaders to establish standard file formats and import mechanisms that will make it easy for other software vendors to make their applications compatible with PageMaker. Third, PageMaker runs under the Microsoft Windows operating environment, the PC standard that allows PageMaker to easily address a wide and growing range of printers, peripherals and other software programs. @EPE BOX2 = PAGEMAKER FEATURES: User Interface: - Screen functions as an electronic pasteup board, complete with rulers, column guides and a toolbox of design aids - Pull-down menus - Mouse-based selection and manipulation of text, graphics and menu commands - Many keyboard shortcuts - Five page views: full-page, actual size, 200% enlargement, and 50% and 75% reductions - WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) screen display - A highly intuitive and interactive environment for electronic page composition Document Formatting: - Up to 128 pages per file, 9,999 pages per document - Up to 20 columns per page - Page sizes up to 17 inches by 22 inches - Master pages for recurring design elements and page numbers - Automatic page numbering - Independent formatting of left- and right-hand pages - Ability to override master page formats at any point in the document - Ability to insert or delete pages Page Composition: - Complete control over page composition - Ability to integrate text and graphics from many sources - Ability to change the number of columns, column widths (both regular and irregular), and column positions page by page - Ability to resize and reposition text blocks - Abiltiy to resize and reposition graphic elements - Ability to see and work on facing pages simultaneously Text Handling: - Powerful built-in text editor for inserting, deleting, cutting, pasting or creating new text - Ability to change the length, width or position of text blocks on a page or between pages - Automatic text threading from column to column and page to page so that changes ripple through the entire document - Ability to present text flush left, flush right, centered or justified and to change such specifications at any time - Ability to wrap text around both regularly and irregularly shaped graphics - Ability to change type specifications - i.e. type size, face and style - for any increment of text, including a word, line, paragraph, column, page or entire story Typography: - Type sizes from 4 to 127 points - Type styles including plain, bold, italic, small caps, all caps, strike thru, subscript and superscript - Support for a wide range of type faces (depending on the printer capabilities) - Support for reversed type - Complete control over leading (line spacing) in half-point increments - Control over word spacing, letter spacing and paragraph spacing - Kerning, both automatic and manual - Automatic hyphenation and justification, based on a 110,000-word Houghton-Mifflin dictionary and user-specified entries of up to 1,000 words - Prompted and manual hyphenation - The ability to fill the space between tabbed columns with dots, dashes, underlines or user-specified characters (leadered tabs) - Em-space, en-space and thin space characters Graphics: - Cropping - Proportional resizing (reducing and enlarging) - Non-proportional resizing - Ability to draw lines, squares, rectangles, circles and ellipses in widths from .25-point (hairline) to 12-point - Rapid repositioning ("fast move" feature) - Ability to create screens in PageMaker at 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%, 60% and 80% - Ability to fill in PageMaker-created shapes with 10 patterns - Ability to place PostScript graphics files (on PostScript-compatible printers)