Adobe FrameMaker 7.0:
Working with Structured Documents and Books
Who should attend the 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. You will benefit from comprehensive instruction that will enable you to become productive immediately.
How long is the course?
2 Days (optional extra day).
What are the benefits of attending?
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.
What are the prerequisites?
This course does not require you to know FrameMaker at all. It is aimed at people who are new to the software or are only using it in the most basic of ways.
You need to be familiar with PCs and the Windows environment.
Course Outline
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Templates
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FrameMaker templates
Saving documents
Deleting documents
Saving documents
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The document environment
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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
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Container elements-editing structure
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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
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Editing Text
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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
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Attributes
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Types of attribute
Working with Attributes
Setting attribute values
Inserting new elements with attributes
Attribute errors
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Validation
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Validation errors
Ignore options
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Object Elements-Graphics
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Text anchored frames for graphics
Importing graphics by reference or copying
Anchoring frames in other positions
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Object Elements - Tables
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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
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Object Elements - Cross-references
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Cross-reference formats
Manual and automatic updating of Cross-references
Automatic links
Fixing unresolvedCcross-references
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Layout
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Page layout
Body pages
Master pages
Single-sided and double-sided documents
Custom layout
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Books
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Adding a Table of Contents using a template
Validating book structure
Object elements-Footnotes
Object elements-Equations
System variables and user-defined variables
Object elements-Index markers
Adding an Index using a template
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.
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Using Conditional Text
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Creating PDF from FrameMaker
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