PageMaker: Designing an invoice

Three simple steps to create a invoice page.

1)Draw the layout

Open PageMaker, in File menu select New and setup a document of page size A4 with Orientation: Tall, margins: 10mm and target output resolution:300 dpi.

Now, draw five rectangle box with following dimension(W x H) 187mm x 36mm, 187mm x 37 mm, 187mm x103.5mm, 67.5mm x 35.5mm, 187 mm x 29.7mm.

PageMaker: Making simple visiting card step-by-step

In this post you will learn how to create simple visiting card using Adobe PageMaker 7.0. Below is the image of a simple visiting card you are going to try.

First, open the PageMaker application. Close the Templates window, which opens initially on startup of PageMaker, Now click on File menu and select New . A Document setup window opens,make the fields of Document Setup as seen in the image below and click OK

Now select rectangle box tool from Tool box and draw a rectangle.

Designing in PageMaker:Quick learn

PageMaker is an application software  used as desktop publishing(DTP) in GUI based system. PageMaker was first introduced in Apple Macintosh system in 1985 by Aldus. Later in 1987 Pagemaker was also available in Microsoft Window OS. Publications created in PageMaker can be used in areas such as business, education, home-office etc. Its interface and various tools helps the user to create customized publication

Using pagemaker user can create publication such as brochure, business card, Invitation cards, ads,newsletter and more. Sometimes user can use the templates provided by the application for various publications.

Pagemaker software introducing in this post is Adobe PageMaker version 7.0(released in July 2001). InDesign is the successor of PageMaker

By designing a simple publication you can easily understand the interface of this application and can create lots of other DTP works, such as, wedding card ,invitation card, brochures,books, magazine etc., with PageMaker. So, lets get an introduction by making a simple visiting card
First open the application.