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FrameMaker 101: Rookie
Description
This class provides you with the concepts and skills to use Adobe FrameMaker effectively. You’ll get hands-on practice working with techniques in the Unstructured View of FrameMaker in order to get the most out of your experience. You will learn the skills that will allow you to take advantage of long-document support that includes book management features, sophisticated tables, and rich formatting options offered by FrameMaker.
Prerequisites
This 3 day course is designed for complete beginners and new users to the software who wish to fully understand the text and page layout features of this powerful publishing package.
Assumed Knowledge
Because of the amount of material we cover in class, we do require students to be comfortable using a mouse, opening and saving files, and the general operations of computers. While we will make every reasonable effort to help, students with insufficient skills may be required to observe the class lessons or do their best to keep up without slowing down the rest of the class.
Skills
- Unstructured Documents
- Using Templates
- Paragraph Styles
- Character Formatting
- Working with Tab Stops
- Inserting New Elements
- Validating a Document
- Drawing Objects
- Importing Files
- Working with Tables
- Course content
Working with FrameMaker Documents
- Exploring the document window
- Applying predefined paragraph formats
- Applying predefined character formats
- Writing a short memo
Defining Paragraph Formats
- Creating a custom document
- Copying text
- Setting up rulers and the grid
- Creating a side-head area
- Displaying the Paragraph Designer
- Formatting headings
- Formatting body text
- Formatting numbered lists
- Formatting bulleted lists
- Creating a chapter title
- Deleting formats
Defining Colors and Character Formats
- Defining custom colors and tints
- Adding color to paragraph formats
- Adding color to autonumbers
- Emphasizing words and phrases
Page Layout
- Changing column layout
- Displaying master pages
- Numbering pages
- Creating a running footer
- Finishing the footers
- Custom master pages
- Assigning master pages to paragraph tags
- Create a new paragraph format
Graphics
- Adjusting header and footer frames for graphics
- Importing a graphic
- Masking part of a graphic
- Copying the graphics
- Drawing lines and rectangles
- Aligning and distributing objects
- Copying the graphics
Document Editing
- Viewing the document
- Turning off the display of graphics
- Defining a user variable
- Inserting variables
- Finding and changing text
- Changing a variable definition
- Using the Thesaurus
- Checking spelling
- Viewing the finished article with graphics
Tables
- Inserting a table
- Filling in the table
- Adding rows and columns
- Rearranging information
- Formatting text in table cells
- Resizing columns
- Changing the table format
- Straddling table cells
- Reusing a table format
Customizing Tables
- Viewing a sample table
- Importing text into a table
- Formatting body cells
- Formatting the table title
- Setting basic table properties
- Resizing columns
- Using tabs in table cells
- Defining ruling styles
- Setting table ruling
- Using custom ruling and shading
Anchored Frames and Graphics
- Editing text containing anchored frames
- Importing a graphic
- Importing a second graphic
- Anchoring graphics in the column
- Using art in the margin
- Copying anchored frames
- Using inline graphics
- Reusing anchored frames
- Using run-in art
- Creating a drop cap
- Importing movies into documents
Cross-References and Footnotes
- Inserting a paragraph cross-reference
- Displaying the source of a cross-reference
- Inserting an external cross-reference
- Creating a cross-reference format
- Using the new cross-reference format
- Inserting a spot cross-reference
- Resolving cross-references
- Inserting footnotes
- Changing how footnotes look
Books
- Viewing the finished book file
- Creating a book file
- Adding documents to the book
- Opening files from the book window
- Adding a table of contents
- Generating the table of contents
- Setting up chapter numbering
- Fixing the pagination
- Changing the layout
- Adding a title
- Formatting the entries
- Changing the contents of entries
- Finishing the Preface.fm file
Indexes
- Adding an index to the book
- Changing the layout
- Adding a title
- Updating the page footer
- Formatting the entries
- Formatting page numbers
- Fixing bad line breaks
- Adding index entries
- Editing index entries
Conditional Text
- Viewing conditional text
- Setting up your document
- Creating condition tags
- Adding conditional text
- Tagging text as you type
- Adding a conditional graphic
- Adding conditional table rows
- Saving versions of a conditional document
Hypertext and PDF
- Creating a hypertext TOC and index
- Using cross-references as hypertext links
- Testing hypertext links
- Adding navigation buttons
- Saving as Hypertext, HTML
- Saving as PDF
HTML and Web Publishing
- Viewing the finished document
- Saving as HTML
- Viewing the results in a Web browser
- Refining the mappings
- Specifying a graphic format
- Adding hypertext links
- Splitting the document into multiple Web pages
- Seeing the results in HTML
