Design philosophy: all information in this web site should be accessible to the intended audience regardless of platform, browser, or size of screen. Graphics are kept to a minimum to reduce download times. If you see a frame or an animated GIF, feel free to flame me mercilessly.

This site uses fully compliant cascading style sheets (CSS). Older browsers should display text in their default fonts, while more recent browsers will all display fully formatted text. (However, the styles sheets will look best viewed in Internet Explorer 4.0 or above.) The site also complies with major accessibility standards.

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The base font for this page is Trebuchet MS, a free font from Microsoft designed for on-screen readability at small point sizes. The headlines are 32 pt Times bold italic, combining elegance, classical proportions, and compactness.

The logo is variation on the original logo from Aldus PageMaker and depicts Aldus Manutius, a student of Johannes Gutenberg and inventor of italics. This is to echo the roots of desktop publishing, both in the 1450s and the 1980s. The logo uses Courier from ITC to evoke the feel of metal type and Poetica from Adobe Systems to evoke the era of hand lettering.

Made on a Macintosh using Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia DreamWeaver.

Easy Way to Move Around in Long PageMaker Documents

by Peter C.S. Adams

As you move the cursor through the text in your PageMaker document with the arrow keys, you may notice something puzzling: when the cursor reaches the end of the page, it doesn’t automatically take you to the next page. Instead, PageMaker beeps and displays an error! Annoying, isn’t it? Fortunately, there is a workaround.

When your cursor is at the end of the page, press Control/Command-E to enter the Story Editor. More the cursor to that it is in a word on the next page and press Control-E again to exit the Story Editor and voila! You're on the page you want.

This tip is even more useful when you're spell checking or doing a Find or a replace — you can enter the Story Editor, find the text you want, and exit the Story Editor, and you're on the right page with the text you found highlighted.

By the way, this still works, but is not necessary if you're using frames — you can scroll to the bottom of a frame an PageMaker will let you scroll right on to the next frame, as long as they are linked.

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