What is a drop cap? How to use it in pagemaker

A Drop Cap is a decorative element commonly used at the beginning of a section or chapter. It is a capital letter used at the beginning of a paragraph or block that has a depth of two or more lines of normal text.

If you want to show the beginning of a paragraph or page in a better way so that it attracts, then you can use the drop cap. The drop cap means capitalize the initial letter of a sentence so large that It should be bigger than two or a line larger than that. A Drop Cap is a decorative element commonly used at the beginning of a section or chapter. It is a capital letter used at the beginning of a paragraph or block that has a depth of two or more lines of normal text.

As you can see in the picture above, how O, which is the opening letter of a paragraph, is enlarged and capitalized due to which it is spread over three lines. Using a drop cap makes your page look more polished and where the beginning of the page or paragraph starts, it can also be seen quite easily.

The following steps are required to make a drop cap.

With the text tool, highlight or type the letter you want to draw in the drop cap.

Type the text and click on the Utilities menu.
Then select plug-ins-command.
After this, we will choose the option of Drop cap, which will open the dialog box below.

In this dialog box, you have to tell how much line you want to drag the character.
After this, click on the Apply button.
If you want to remove the drop cap, click on the Remove button.

What is color and style palette

Colors and style palettes are in a floating box like a toolbox. They are used to add, delete, or adjust the colors and styles used in the PageMaker document. The color and style are displayed automatically when a new PageMaker document is started, but additional palettes on the screen can be added by selecting it from the window menu.

How to display color and style palette

Style palette

This palette is used with the Text tool to apply a style above a paragraph or to see the name of an applied style. You can see it by ordering Show Styles in the Window Menu or by pressing B (Ctrl + B) Button with the control.

Special work related to Style is available in its palette menu, which you can open by clicking the arrow button near its right corner. In this, actions to duplicate, improve, etc. are available, you can also create your new style. And they can be applied on any paragraph.

Color palette

Color palette is used to give different colors to font graphics, etc. Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Red, Green, Blue, None, Paper, Registration etc. colors are displayed by default in the color palette. If you want, you can also display colors.

Select Show Colors from the Window menu to display the color palette, and use it to apply the color to the selected text or object or to see the name or type of the applied color.

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