University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine Yearbook 2003 | Layouts

Aesculepius 2003 pages are made using PAGEMAKER. A copy of the complete instruction manual will be made available to Toronto Meds Yearbook 2003 Editors and Lay-out Staff. Please see below for how to access Pagemaker from the Medical Sciences Building Computing Labs and for some basic Pagemaker commands.

ACCESSING PAGEMAKER FROM MSB COMPUTERS

Login using username and passwords from your assigned student accounts
Go to Drive Y
Double click on Autorun.exe
Install Pagemaker 6.5
Please wait as it takes a few minutes to load and install
Look over read me file before use if necessary
You may keep your files in the Yearbook folder under a separate folder under your name or the name of the section you are working on. For security purposes always back up your files on your personal server or disks.

Very Important!
Toronto Meds Yearbook 2003 editors and lay-out staff have ready access to this service. A list of names for lay-out volunteers have also been submitted for access. If you are not on the list you will NOT be able to use Pagemaker from the MSB computers. If you wish to do lay-out and need to use Pagemaker let us know and email Toronto Meds Yearbook 2003.

For student computing account difficulties check with the MSB Computing Network Administrator Michael Mares. He can be reached in person at his office in MSB Rm 3285 or by email. BASIC PAGEMAKER COMMANDS FOR AESCULEPIUS 2003
Notes taken by Julie Saunders from the Nov 2002 Workshop

Naming files:

Give file names page numbers, and then a subject in brackets just for your own reference; ex. PG002-003 (basketball)

Settings to change before you do anything:

Element > Link Options > select that you do not want to store copy in publication
CMYK > get rid of the RGB from colours menu (delete it by dragging it to the garbage can on the menu)
File > Preferences > General > use picas
File > Document Setup:
Number of pages: select 2
Start on page #: need to select an even number,
or it won’t give you a double page spread
Margins: inside 1, outside 3, top 2, bottom 4
Layout > Columns: ex. Could use 5 columns,
with 1 pica in between

Working on your file:

File > New
Don’t run any faces or text thru the gutter (between the 2 pages of the dps).
Only use frame shapes with the X’s inside; to draw an exact square with them, hold down shift while drawing.
Zoom out by pressing control and the magnifying glass at the same time.
Right click to get a pop-up menu; this has the Fit in Window command, which is a useful way to zoom out to see everything.
To undo, press Control Z.
Element menu: has to do with shapes and frames.
To link text boxes, so that long blocks of text flow from one to another, select the red tab at the bottom, and drag the chain symbol to the next box to link.

File > Place: to place a photo in a box

Element > Frame > Separate Contents: to be able to resize photos within the frame. Hold down shift while resizing (otherwise you could stretch the photo and change its proportions) and when it is the right size, choose Frame >Attach Contents.
With type, be careful if it is so large a size bec it gets squished automatically to fit into the column.
Control J brings up colour menu. Check in the colour menu that you always have Process colour selected (it tends to revert to Spot colour, but that costs a lot more to print).
Element > Arrange > Send to Back (to get overlapping elements in the order you want).
If you are wrapping text around a polygon, you can adjust the clipping path to wrap tight to it.
Get rid of the text box outline by going to Element > Stroke.