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Adobe® FrameMaker®
Introductory Course

Next courses: Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th January 2012

Price: £425 now only £399 (+vat) including course notes, lunch and unlimited e-mail support.

Location: Guildford, Surrey (GU1 1HZ)

Duration: Two Days

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Related courses:

Adobe FrameMaker Advanced Training Course
Adobe Acrobat Introductory Training Course

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Adobe™ FrameMaker™ is pretty much the standard when it comes to technical documentation. No other electronic publishing product on the market comes close to the power of FrameMaker™ for long document handling. I use the term "technical documentation" here loosely, since you don't have to be writing anything very technical to benefit from the features FrameMaker has to offer.

If you need to use complex "point" numbering (1.1.(i); 1.1.(ii); 1.2.(i)) or something similar, and you've struggled to get Microsoft Word to behave in precisely the way you want, then this feature alone could sell you on the idea of FrameMaker.

 Now add precise frame anchoring to make sure that illustrations and figures stay where you put them relative to the text that's associated with them and then cross-reference the whole thing with sophisticated index/table of contents generation, and you have quite simply the most powerful publishing software around for anything from Technical Data sheets, to Scientific journals consisting of thousands of pages.

Adobe™ FrameMaker™ is a template-based authoring and publishing solution for unstructured, structured and XML/DITA content. Easily author content with an enhanced user interface and standards-compliant tools, collaborate and review with out-of-the-box content management system CMS integration, and automatically schedule and publish via Adobe FrameMaker Server 10* software to multiple channels such as PDF, HTML, WebHelp, Adobe Air®, Adobe FlashHelp®, and Oracle Help

This Adobe FrameMaker 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.

Comprehensive course notes, unlimited e-mail support, and, for courses held in our Training Centre, lunch and refreshments are included.
During this Adobe FrameMaker training course you will learn about:

Overview of Desktop/Electronic Publishing

  • The Traditional Publishing Process
  • The Desktop Publishing Process

Understanding the User Interface

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

Opening, Creating and Saving FrameMaker Documents

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

Editing Text

  • 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

All About Formats (Tags)

  • 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

Printing & Typesetting Terminology Explained

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

Autonumbering and Bullets

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

Headers & Footers

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

Creating and Using Frames

  • 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

Using the Drawing Tools

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

Printing and Other Output Options

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

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