In article <xQ2dj.99856$GV4.71323@trnddc05>, "Claude Balls" <claudeballsjr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Harry. I'll give it a try. Simple question - what do the > plug-ins do?
As in many other applications, PageMaker's plug-ins add functions to make things easier or automate complicated tasks. PageMaker comes with some and you can download more ... but many of them are fairly useless to most users.
PageMaker's plug-ins are found in the Utilities -> Plug-ins menu.
Some of the perhaps more useful ones to an average user are:
Drop Cap Creates a drop cap - a larger letter that spans multiple lines of text
Change Case Changes the case (upper case, lower case, etc.) of the selected text.
Word Counter Counts the words in the selected text.
Keyline Adds a border around the selected object with user defineable style / thickness, colour and distance from the object.
Build Booklet Takes a document with a series of A5 pages (for example) and creates a new document with A4 sized spreads - when printed double-sided, sorted and folded / stapled you end up with a booklet with the pages in the same reading order as they were in the A5 sized document.
Personally I've only ever bothered with the last two of those.
As well as Plug-ins there are Scripts, but these tend to be even more "useless" (or perhaps the word is "specialised for a particular use"). These are seen and run via a palatte window you can display from Window -> Plug-in Palattes -> Show Scripts. Other than a cursory "play", I've never wasted time with any of these.
