Adobe Framemaker - Template Design (Adobe Authorised)

Mekon Creatives

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In London, Sutton, Surrey, Nottingham

£ 995 + VAT

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London, sutton, surrey, ...

  • Duration

    3 Days

You will learn a design methodology for producing templates for documents and books, both structured and unstructured. The course incorporates good practice and provides advanced techniques to ensure documents and books can be maintained and updated efficiently in the future. It ensures that the power of FrameMaker 7 is fully utilised. Suitable for: It is aimed at "knowledge workers" and those with the responsibility for designing templates to a high standard. It is suitable for the designers of both unstructured and structured templates.

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London, Sutton, Surrey, Nottingham (Surrey)
Mekon House, 31-35 St Nicholas Way, Sutton, Surrey, Sm1 1jn, SM1 1JN

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On request

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Course programme

At the end of the course you will possess an in-depth understanding of FrameMaker 7 which will enable you to design templates for complex documents and books immediately.
Course Outline
The Design Process
  • Why templates are important
  • The template design process
  • Structured and unstructured documents
  • The document environment
    The Design Workshop
  • Stage 1 Designing the initial page layout
  • Stage 2 Setting document properties
    Designing paragraph styles
    Basic and default font properties
  • Paragraph Designer-Default Font properties
  • Paragraph Designer-Basic properties
  • Applying paragraph properties
  • Creating a new paragraph style
  • The Paragraph Catalog
  • To delete a tag from the Paragraph Catalog
  • Basic properties-line spacing
  • Basic properties-paragraph spacing
    Numbering properties
  • Numbering properties
  • Building Blocks
  • Series labels
    Pagination and Advanced properties
  • Straddle across columns
  • Control paragraph location
  • Keep with Widow and orphan properties
  • Adjust paragraph hyphenation
  • Apply global update options
    Designing character styles
  • Character Designer
  • Applying character properties
  • Creating a new character style
  • The Character Catalog
  • Deleting a tag from the Character Catalog
  • Types of character style
  • Applying a character style to an autonumber
  • Special bulleted paragraphs
  • Renaming character tags
    Preparing for graphics
  • Text-anchored graphics
  • Text-anchored frames
  • Anchoring strategy
  • Straddling figures across columns
  • Reference pages
  • Reference frames
  • Including a reference frame in a paragraph style
    Designing table styles
  • Table styles
  • Table Designer-Basic properties
  • Applying table properties
  • Creating a new table style
  • Naming conventions
  • Anchoring strategy
  • Table Designer - Ruling properties
  • Table Designer - Shading properties
  • Preparing paragraph styles for the table
  • Including a graphic into a table style
  • Creating new table ruling styles
    Designing cross-reference formats
  • Cross-reference formats
  • Defining a new format
  • Unstructured building blocks
  • Structured building blocks
  • Deleting Cross-reference formats
    Designing page layout
  • Body pages
  • Master pages
  • Single-sided and double-sided documents
  • Flow-tagged and untagged text frames
  • Headers and footers
  • Custom page layout
  • Adding a text frame to a master page
  • Connecting text frames
  • Page-anchoring
    Book Building
  • Creating a book file
  • Organising book files
  • Setting up numbering for chapters in a book.
    Tables of Contents
  • Generating a Table of Contents
  • Formatting a Table of Contents template
  • Changing the form and content of the Table of Contents
    Indices
  • Generating an Index
  • Formatting an Index
  • Changing the organisation and content of the Index
    Optional Modules
    All these modules can be substituted for modules in the standard list or they can all be taken in an optional extra day.
  • Colour Definitions
  • Conditional Text Options
  • Customising Footnotes
  • Change Bars and Version Control
  • Advanced Page Layout

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