The following article was published by Aldus (as far as I know) and 
delineates the additions to Aldus Pagemaker 5.0.

Geof.
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                            ALDUS PAGEMAKER 5.0
                           Macintosh and Windows

                         ABSOLUTE PUBLISHING POWER


NEW FEATURES IN 5.0! Aldus(R) PageMaker(R) 5.0 gives you absolute power to
produce professional-quality publications. With more than 100 new or enhanced
features, PageMaker 5.0 delivers remarkable advancements in control,
integration, and versatility.

Version 5.0 introduces many new features for increased productivity and 
greater freedom of design, chief among them incremental rotation of both text 
and graphics, the ability to open and work on more than one publication at a 
time, and built-in process-color separation.

What's more, the Control palette and Aldus Additions technology, both brand-
new under Windows and significantly enhanced for the Macintosh version, offer 
you the creative freedom and performance you need to design and produce 
world-class publications of virtually any kind.



MAXIMUM PRECISION AND CONTROL

Rotation and skewing of text and graphics in 0.01! increments

Horizontal and vertical reflection of objects

Intuitive Control palette to position, scale, or crop objects and select
thetype attributes of individual characters or whole paragraphs

Numerically exact positioning and rotation of any object, from its center or
any handle

Specific "nudge" amounts for exact positioning

Incrementally rotated inline graphics

Cropping of rotated objects

Text mode of the palette visible in layout or story editor views

Numeric kerning

Baseline shift

Process-color separations of PageMaker text and graphics, as well as imported
CMYK TIFF*, DCS, and EPS images, all without leaving PageMaker

Nonconsecutive page-range printing

Object-level overprinting of PageMaker graphics

Printing scalable up to 1600%

Virtually unlimited thumbnails, including from PCL printers

Automatic centering of the page on whatever paper you're using

More printers' marks, including date/time stamping, color- control strips, and
density-control bars on separations

Overprinting for any spot or process color or tint

Spot-to-process conversion at printing

Choice of printing individual inks of process-color separations

Automatic scaling of the page to the paper size

Separate line and fill attributes

Choice of transparent or opaque dash lines

Support for up to 18 language dictionaries, plus any number of installable
hyphenation dictionaries

New search-and-replace capabilities for a character's position and case

Sophisticated kerning and track editing



EFFORTLESS INTEGRATION FEATURES

Many new or improved filters, including:

-  PICT-to-Metafile and Metafile-to-PICT conversions

-  DXF, WPG, Kodak Photo CD

-  GEM and Ventura Publisher%

OLE, using PageMaker as a client application

Ability to embed EPS files in a publication or leave them out, still linked 
for ease of updating

Images scanned directly into the PageMaker publication, using the new TWAIN
standard

Font mapping for identifying missing fonts in a publication and substituting
others, using the PANOSE* editable font- translation list



% With PageMaker 5.0 for Windows only

** With PageMaker 5.0 for the Macintosh only





NEW FEATURES IN 5.0



UNPARALLELED VERSATILITY

Custom line weights from 0.1 to 800 points

Proprietary color libraries, including PANTONE(* (spot, process, and
Euroscale), Trumatch, Focoltone, and Dainippon

Ability to create you own color libraries and reuse them

Spot colors, process colors, or tints of either



ALDUS ADDITIONS

Extend PageMaker's capabilities for specific publishing scenarios, simplify and
speed up routine tasks, or write your own Addition scripts to further customize
PageMaker.

Both versions of PageMaker 5.0 come with a wide range of easy-to-install

Additions, each addressing common publishing needs:

CREATING DESIGN/PRODUCTION SHORTCUTS

-  Build Booklet

-  Drop Cap

-  Group It

-  Keyliner

-  Open Template

-  Printer Styles

-  Sort Pages

MANAGING TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY

-  Add Cont'd Line

-  Balance Columns

-  Bullets and Numbering

-  Convert Ventura File

-  Edit All Stories

-  Edit Tracks

-  Expert Kerning

-  Find Overset Text

-  List Styles Used

-  Running Headers/Footers

-  Traverse Text Blocks

GETTING INFORMATION ABOUT TEXT

-  Display Pub Info

-  Display Story Info

-  Display Text Block Info



GAINING ACCESS TO ADDITION SCRIPTS

-  Run Script

-  Run Script Repeatedly**



AN EVEN MORE NATURAL, INTUITIVE INTERFACE

Ability to open and work on as many Page-Maker publications as your system will
allow

Ability to "drag and drop" text and objects among open publications

Tile and Cascade features for organizing publications on the screen

Listing of all open publications for easily navigating among open publications

Library palette for storing common images (with "drag and drop")

Compatibility with Aldus( Fetch* image cataloging and retrieval program`

Custom magnification (up to 800%) for zooming in to a particular part of the
page

Ability to edit rotated text directly in a layout (even the cursor is 
rotated!)

Automatic text flow, without having to display every page

Keyboard shortcuts quickly accessible in the Control palette

Automatic resizing of Indents/tabs ruler according to the size of your screen
display

Global preferences for story editor settings

Easily removable ruler guides

Redesigned print dialog boxes

Helpful suggestions from the PostScript error handler to help solve common
printing problems

Color swatches on the improved Colors palette

Automatic appearance of colors used inimported EPS files

Visual distinction between process colors, spot colors, tints, and imported 
EPS colors

Line and fill settings specifiable on Colors palette





SYSTEM RECOMMENDATIONS

WINDOWS

On an IBM or compatible PC, Aldus PageMaker 5.0 requires Microsoft Windows 
3.1 (or later) and Windows 3.1-compatible hardware.

A 486- or 386-based computer is recommended, with 4MB of RAM, an 80MB hard
drive, a high-resolution graphics adaptor card, and a mouse.

A PostScript-language or PCL laser printer, color printer, or imagesetter is
required for output.


MACINTOSH

On the Apple Macintosh, PageMaker is System 7 savvy. It also runs under System
6.0.7 with Finder 6.1.7 or later.

Any Macintosh II series, Quadra, or SE/30 computer is recommended, with 5P8MB
of RAM and an 80MB hard drive.

A color, grayscale, or black-and-white device, such as a PostScript-compatible
or QuickDraw-compatible laser printer, or a PostScript-language imagesetter, 
is required for output.



NEW UNDER WINDOWS (contained in Mac PM 4.2)

PageMaker 5.0 is, of course, file-compatible on the Macintosh and Windows
platforms, and the new and enhanced features shown elsewhere on this brochure
apply to both versions. In addition, users of PageMaker for Windows will
appreciate these new features, which first appeared in PageMaker 4.2 for the
Macintosh:

FOR PRECISION AND CONTROL . . .

Automatic true typographers' quotation marks

Baseline-to-baseline leading

Multiple-paste command, speeding up step-and-repeat work



FOR VERSATILITY . . .

Page sizes up to 42" x 42"

Option to unlink files

Standalone Dictionary Editor utility

No limit to the number of copies printed at once



AND, ON THE FAMOUS PAGEMAKER INTERFACE . . .

"Apply" button in the Indents/tabs dialog box

Keyboard shortcuts for applying styles

Options to save files faster or smaller

Interruptible screen redraw

Double-click shortcut to reset zero point




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PageMaker are registered trademarks and Fetch and TIFF are trademarks of Aldus
Corporation. Apple and Macintosh are registered trademarks and Finder, Quadra,
QuickDraw, and System 7 are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. PANOSE is a
trademark of the typeface matching system from ElseWare Corporation. ElseWare
Corporation takes no responsibility for the mapping results of the fonts that
do not also bear the PANOSE trademark. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft
Corporation. Other product and corporate names may be trademarks or registered
trademarks of other companies, and are used only for explanation and to the
owners' benefit, without intent to infringe.


