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Adobe FrameMaker Advanced Training Course
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Monday & Tuesday 19th & 20th May 2008, Guildford, Surrey

Price: £425  (+vat) including course notes, lunch and unlimited e-mail support.

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This course is designed for new users with little or no previous experience of desktop publishing and who wish to learn Adobe FrameMaker. Starting from first principles, delegates will be led through the procedures for creating new documents and modifying existing ones. During the course, delegates will learn to use Adobe FrameMaker to create a range of simple documents including short design-intensive documents such as leaflets and newsletters, as well as single chapter books and brochures.

Delegates will also learn about the Adobe FrameMaker drawing tools, which allow the creation of complex vector-based artwork.

This Adobe FrameMaker training course can also be tailored to a clients particular needs.

Comprehensive course notes, unlimited telephone support, and, for courses held in our Training Centre, lunch and refreshments are included.

During this Adobe FrameMaker training course you will learn about:

• The Traditional Publishing Process
• The Desktop Publishing Process

• The Toolbars
• The Toolbox
• The Status Bar
• Preferences and Options

• Creating and Using Document Templates
• Understanding the Body, Master and Reference Pages
• Creating Multi-Column Layouts
• Changing Page Size and Layout

• Importing Text Created in Other Applications – by Reference and
  by Copying into Document
• Working with Text Insets
• Typing and Correcting Text
• Spell Checking Dictionaries
• Search & Replace
• Inserting Footnotes

• Formats explained – Paragraph, Character and Table
• Applying Existing Formats from a Template
• Creating New Formats
• Modifying the Properties of Formats
• Copying Formats from one Document to Another

• Choosing and Using Typefaces Effectively
• Setting Leading (Inter-Line space) Appropriately
• Typesetting for Maximum "readability"

• Simple Paragraph Numbering
• Creating Bullet Point Formats
• Complex "Point" Paragraph Numbering
• Understanding the Importance of Series Labels
• Autonumbering Tables, Figures, Captions etc...

• Creating Running Headers and Footers
• Using Variables in Headers and Footers
• Page Numbering

• Using Graphics Frames in Documents
• Importing Graphics Created in Other Applications – by Reference and 
  by Copying into Document
• Drawing FrameMaker Graphics in Frames
• Sizing and Scaling Pictures
• Rules Around Frames
• Captions
• Flowing Text Around Frames

• Drawing Graphics – Rectangles, Ellipses, Polygons and Lines
• Modifying Graphic Objects
• Understanding Bézier Curves
• Smoothing and Unsmoothing Lines
• Applying Pen and Fill Attributes

• Print options
• Saving Postscript Files for Output by Remote Service Providers
• Saving as HTML
• Creating Adobe Acrobat PDF Files