Introduction to Framemaker
Training
In Newbury
Discover how to use the powerful page layout and text features available to generate print documentation of a high standard!
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Type
Training
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Level
Beginner
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Location
Newbury
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Duration
3 Days
Learn how to use the powerful page layout and text features available to generate print documentation of a high standard with this Introduction to Framemaker training, organized and offered by the prestigious Armada Training Centre.
Adobe FrameMaker has long been the authoring tool of choice for many technical authors. Its template-based authoring environment offers unparalleled options for publishing long documents reliably and consistently throughout your organisation.
Introduction to FrameMaker provides newcomers with a thorough grounding in standard FrameMaker (unstructured mode), teaching how to generate high-quality print documentation. Sessions cover master pages, graphics, tables and FrameMaker’s document revision features.
This course is ideal for newcomers to FrameMaker, and those with limited FrameMaker experience. At the end of the course, you will be able to confidently create and modify FrameMaker documents.
Don't miss this chance and enrol in this course now. Contact Armada Training Centre through Emagister.co.uk. You will receive all the information needed to take a step further in your career!
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- CourseOutlineIntroductiontoFrameMaker.pdf
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About this course
- To gain a thorough grounding in Adobe FrameMaker.
- To teach delegates how to use FrameMaker's most popular features whilst exploring the advanced features available using FrameMaker's unstructured mode.
This course is suitable for:
- Newcomers to Adobe FrameMaker.
- Novice users with limited FrameMaker experience.
None.
Delegates can book in any of the following ways:
Phone: call 01527 834783
Online: www.armada.co.uk.
Email: Please email full details, including your name, address, email address, contact phone number and the date of the course you want to attend to training@armada.co.uk.
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Subjects
- Authoring
- Design
- Communication design
- Image Editing
- Framemaker
- Graphics
- Adobe
- Printing
- Drawing
- Technical authoring
- Technical publishing
Teachers and trainers (1)
Lynne Telfer
Adobe trainer
Course programme
Introduction to Adobe FrameMaker training covers the following topics:
An Overview of FrameMaker
- Overview of FrameMaker and the interface document
- Navigation techniques
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Setting preferences
- Output to PDF
- Using find and change
- Running the spell checker
Working with FrameMaker Documents
- Creating, opening and editing documents
- Using Save, Save-As and closing documents
Find/Change, Spell Checker and Thesaurus
- Searching for any item
- Changing items
- Managing dictionaries
- Customising the spell checker and using the thesaurus
Templates
- Creating a new document based on an existing template
- Understanding the difference between character and paragraph formats
- Applying paragraph and character formats
Creating and Modifying Formats
- Creating and applying predefined paragraph and character formats
- Using the character and paragraph designers to design new formats
- Discussing format overrides, indents and alignments
- Tabs, spacing, and hyphenation
- Pagination
- Special heading formats
- Numbered and bulleted lists
- Multiple autonumbers
- Renaming and deleting formats and Importing and updating formats across files
The Graphics Editor
- The tools palette
- Drawing and selecting objects
- Applying and changing properties
- Grouping and ungrouping objects
Importing Graphics and Anchored Frames
- A discussion of graphic formats and importing techniques
- Creating, positioning and editing anchored frames
Tables
- Inserting tables
- Using the table catalog
- Filling tables with text and graphics
- Copying and removing tables
- Positioning tables
- Adjusting rows and columns
- Rotating cells
- Controlling page breaks
- Ruling and shading
- Creating table formats and converting between text and tables
Using Footnotes and Table Footnotes
- Inserting footnotes and table footnotes
- Changing footnote formats
Master Pages
- Displaying master pages
- Creating headers and footers
- Creating and editing custom master pages
- Assigning master pages to document body pages
Reference pages
- Using references pages to attach artwork to paragraphs
Variables
- A discussion of the role of system and user variables
- Creating, inserting and editing running header and footers
- Creating new user variables
Text Insets and Cross-References
- Working with imported text files
- Inserting and maintaining cross-references within a document
- Cross-references to other documents
- Creating and modifying cross-reference formats
Conditional Text
- Creating a multi-version document using conditional tags
Table of Contents Creation
- Generating, formatting and updating a Table of Contents
- Generating a Table of Figures list for stand-alone documents and books
Index Creation
- Inserting and editing index markers
- Generating, formatting and editing an index for a stand-alone documents and books
Book Building
- Creating a book file from scratch
- Setting-up document numbering and pagination properties across multiple documents within a book
- Moving files in and out of a book
- Inserting a TOC into a book file
- Inserting an index into a book file
- Updating and maintaining books to ensure cross-references lists
- imported graphics and pages numbers are always correct
- Printing and creating PDFs from book files
The Equation Editor
- Inserting and editing equations
Additional information
Introduction to Framemaker