Who should attend this Adobe Framemaker course?
This intensive course is aimed at
technical authors, typesetters, engineers, administrative personnel, and knowledge workers who need
to prepare documents and manuals to a high standard within Structured Framemaker. You will benefit
from comprehensive instruction that will enable you to become productive immediately.
How
long is this Adobe Framemaker course?
2 Days (optional extra day)
What are the
benefits of attending this course?
The course will equip you with the skills necessary to
work with structured templates to produce valid documents conforming to an EDD or an SGML DTD. It
introduces the use of container elements and object elements. It explains how to identify attribute
types and how to set appropriate values. It describes ways of manipulating structure. It
demonstrates how structural errors are located and fixed. The course will also teach you how to
produce structured books comprising multiple documents, which are fully cross- referenced, including
a table of contents and an index.
Course Outline
Templates
- FrameMaker templates
- Saving
documents
- Deleting documents
- Saving documents
The document
environment
- The document window
- The QuickAccess Bar and the Formatting
Bar
- Zoom controls
- Visual guides
- Navigation techniques
- The structure
view window and how to work with elements
- Attribute display
- The element catalog and
how to set available elements
- Save options
Container elements-editing
structure
- Working with structure
- Structural errors
- Types of
element
- Formatting
- Working with structure
- Adding structure
- Importing
a structured flow
- Moving elements
- Wrapping and unwrapping elements
- Merging,
nudging and splitting elements
- Element Catalog options
Editing
Text
- Adding and deleting text
- Selecting and changing text
- Using the
Clear and Undo commands
- Cutting, Copying and Pasting text
- Adding special
characters
- Smart Spaces and Smart Quotes
- Context-sensitive menus
- Spell
Checker
- Find/Change
- Thesaurus
Attributes
- Types of
attribute
- Working with Attributes
- Setting attribute values
- Inserting new
elements with attributes
- Attribute errors
Validation
- Validation
errors
- Ignore options
Object Elements-Graphics
- Text anchored frames
for graphics
- Importing graphics by reference or copying
- Anchoring frames in other
positions
Object Elements - Tables
- Table structures
- Table
styles
- Moving around in a table
- Selecting parts of a table
- Modifying the
shape of a table
- Resizing selected columns
- Adding data to a table
- Formatting
data in cells
- Customising a table
Object Elements -
Cross-references
- Cross-reference formats
- Manual and automatic updating of
Cross-references
- Automatic links
- Fixing unresolved
Cross-references
Layout
- Page layout
- Body pages
- Master
pages
- Single-sided and double-sided documents
- Custom
layout
Books
- Adding a Table of Contents using a template
- Validating
book structure
- Object elements-Footnotes
- Object elements-Equations
- System
variables and userdefi ned variables
- Object elements-Index markers
- Adding an Index
using aĂtemplate
Optional Modules
All these modules can be substituted for
modules in the standard list or they can all be taken as part of an extended day.
- Using
Conditional Text
- Creating PDF from FrameMaker
