Product Description

Millions of professional-looking pages have been designed and printed using Adobe's PageMaker desktop publishing software. Now with the program's latest release and PageMaker 6.5 For Dummies, Internet Edition, you can take advantage of all the powerful layout features built into PageMaker to create excellent pages for a whole new medium, the World Wide Web. Author and PageMaker pro Galen Gruman gets you started quickly, whether you're new to PageMaker or just new to Version 6.5, introducing you to all of the PageMaker program's capabilities as well as to graphic design basics you may not know. Then you discover how to work within the constraints of HTML and slow graphic download times to produce eye-catching, effective Web pages. You'll also find out how to take existing documents intended for print and convert them to documents that look like they were intended for the Web. Before you start busting your chops hand-coding documents in raw HTML -- about the most un-WYSIWYG approach there is -- use PageMaker 6.5 For Dummies, Internet Edition, to bring the benefits of professional desktop publishing to the Web.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #897471 in Books
• Published on: 1997-04-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

About the Author
Galen Gruman is the executive editor of Upside magazine and the coauthor of 11 books on desktop publishing, including Macworld QuarkXPress 4 Bible and PageMaker 6.5 For Dummies Internet Edition, as well as a contributor to The PC Bible, 3rd Edition. Originally a news reporter and editor, Gruman got caught by the production-technology bug in 1979 and hasn't recovered. He led one of the first successful conversions of a national magazine to desktop publishing in 1986 and has covered publishing technology since then for several publications, including the trade weekly InfoWorld, for which he began writing in 1986; Macworld, whose staff he joined in 1991 and for which was executive editor from 1994 to 1998; and the magazines Magazine Design & Production and Publish.

Customer Reviews

Where are the Desktop Publishing Instructions?
This must be the book I bought and returned because, although its title suggested otherwise, it dealt exclusively with the internet. I like "Dummies" books and wanted one on PageMaker desktop publishing, not on webpages. I understand from reading another customer's comments that there is not one on straight desktop publishing. I wish the authors had been more straightforward about what their book contained...it would have saved me a lot of time and trips to the bookstore. Guess I will have to look elsewhere for my Pagemaker instructions.

Great Web Page Development Source but NO DESKTOP PUB!!
Excellent and easy to understand and read (like all the Dummies books (LOL)). So, hey IDG, "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO WRITE THE PAGEMAKER 6.5 FOR WINDOWS FOR DUMMIES (NON-INTERNET VERSION)? Although I am glad I bought the internet version, I bought it crossing my fingers that it would contain Desktop Publishing (the main purpose of PageMaker 6.5). My supplier said there is not a "regular" version available for 6.5 yet!!!

Where's the desk-top publishing?????
This book would have been very good if I had wanted to publish a web page. Unfortunenately, I'm using PageMaker for it's intended purpose, desktop publishing. PageMaker 6.5 for Dummies never addressed how to use the program for print publishing. I was very disappointed.