This is a collection of tutorials for PageStream. Although I assert copyright (these tutorials are not public domain) they can be freely redistributed. Any alteration that furthers its use as a tutorial for PageStream is expressly permitted.
The videos are currently being created on OS X with ScreenFlow. Two versions are exported, both at 400x300 resolution: the standard version is 100kbps and the "large" is 300kbps. The flash videos were encoded using Adobe Flash from a lossless export from ScreenFlow. Apparently flash scales the video down to an odd resolution and then scales it back up for playback. The net result is much lower quality video that is harder to read any text in. Unfortunately the final file is still nearly as large as the 300kbps quicktime. I don't recommend flash if you can view the quicktime versions.
Although the videos are free for use and freely redistributable I would appreciate donations to help defray the costs associated with making and distributing the tutorials (the default amount is just to avoid having an empty field, any donation is appreciated).
| Tutorial | Duration | Uploaded | Other Encodings |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01: Lesson 1 | ~16 minutes | 20090108 10:38:33 | Large swf |
| 02: Lesson 2 | ~19 minutes | 20090108 01:08:10 | Large swf |
| 03: Managing Fonts | ~6 minutes | 20090108 12:26:33 | Large swf mpg |
| 04: Create Calendar | ~21 minutes | 20090108 15:37:15 | Large swf |
I suppose that because the tutorials are made entirely on OS X it is somewhat surprising that they demonstrate the linux version of PageStream. The reason for this is simple: to work with a clean environment I captured a virtual machine session. To be specific, I used Fusion. I could just as easily have demonstrated the Windows version of PageStream using Parallels but I've been working with Fusion recently so that was what was handy.