Just click away from the selected elements and they will deselect If you accidentally capture the wrong element or too many elements, don’t panic. The net will disappear and all elements-a drawing, a text block, or a graphic-that were completely enclosed by the net will now be selected. Notice that this creates a rectangular dashed line or net. Hold and drag the net over the graphics you want to select To create a netĬlick the mouse in an area where you will not select anything (a margin would typically be a safe location) This will select the drawing without selecting anything else. HINT: To capture a drawing that is within a text block or too near another element to select, create a net big enough to capture the complete drawing without capturing the complete text block or other element. Any element fully enclosed by the net will be selected.
A net is a dashed line created with the Pointer tool. If the drawing is made inside of a text block or too close to another drawing or graphic, you may have to use a Net (sometimes referred to as a coupon box) to select it.
The previous layers do not remain selected unless you are also holding down the key.Īt times it may be difficult (and seem impossible) to select a drawing. OPTIONAL: In order to select each layer of graphics, hold down the or key while clicking on the graphic. Hold down the key while clicking on other lines and shapes you want to select With the tip of the Pointer, click the first line or shape If it does not, it is not selected and you must repeat this step, paying close attention to where the tip of the Pointer is positioned. HINT: If the graphic element has a fill pattern, you can click on the fill pattern. With the tip of the pointer, click the line or shape Selecting a Line or Shapeįrom the Toolbox, select the Pointer tool You can reselect a line or shape by using the Pointer tool. Lines and shapes are selected directly after they are drawn and stay selected until you draw another line or shape or until you click the mouse. When a graphic element is selected, it becomes surrounded by small boxes called handles, which are used for resizing. I haven't use it to extensively yet and I am sure I can probably streamline it to some extent.A line or shape must be selected in order for it to be deleted, moved, or modified. I did have to rename the "PM65.CNF" file to "PM65old.CNF" and let the program recreate the file in order to be able to save defaults.
#TUTORIAL FOR PAGEMAKER WINDOWS 10#
I can now insert the USB drive into my Windows 10 computer and start PageMaker 6.5 from the flash drive. I then cloned the hard drive of the laptop to a USB flash drive. I reloaded PageMaker onto an old Windows XP laptop to have a more current operating system and smaller cleaner hard drive. Much to my surprise, PageMaker 6.5 started. Out of curiosity I double clicked on the PM65.EXE file. Of course this hard drive had the operating system from the old computer since I had simply pulled the hard drive from the unit. On my Windows 10 computer, I was looking through a hard drive from an old computer (running windows 98) which was able to run PageMaker 6.5. I did stumble upon a potential work around. I have been a user of PageMaker 6.5 for many years and was disappointed when it would not load on my new Windows 10 computer.