FrameMaker - Basic/Intermediate/Advanced Adobe Framemaker (3 days)

Scheduled 2012 dates: 30-31 Jul, 22-24 Oct.

Option to attend Basic/Intermediate training (days 1-2) or Advanced training (day 3) separately.

Course objective: To gain a thorough grounding in FrameMaker used in unstructured mode (standard FrameMaker). From first principles, you learn how to use FrameMaker's most popular features and a range of techniques for generating documentation of a high standard. On completion of the course, delegates will be able to produce consistent and coherent books comprised of multiple documents, with a table of contents, index and cross-references.

Who should attend? Newcomers to FrameMaker, and users with a small amount of experience. Suitable both for those new to desk-top publishing, and those who have previously used another DTP tool. Delegates should be familiar with basic word processing techniques.

Instructors: Course hosted by Adobe Certified Instructor who is an Adobe Certified Expert in FrameMaker.

Courseware and certification: We provide you with comprehensive courseware and a certificate confirming you have attended and successfully completed Adobe-authorised FrameMaker training.

After course support: Delegates are entitled to 30 days email support from Armada to help with any post-training issues.

Course covers:

Overview of FrameMaker
• How to think about FrameMaker
• Flexible page design
• Graphic tools
• Book building and revision management
• Professional colour control
• Stylized tables for organizing information
• Multiple versions of a document
• Information links
• Templates for standardized documents
• Typeset mathematical equations
• Online help system
• More about FrameMaker

Working with documents
• Opening files and touring the document Window
• Saving documents
• Zooming the document
• Window guides and view options
• Changing pages
• Printing documents
• Closing and saving documents

Character font properties
• Untagged font properties
• Character formats

Default font and basic properties
• Setting default font properties
• Basic properties
• As is and global update options

Tab properties
• Positioning tab stops with the formatting bar
• Modifying tab properties

Pagination and advanced properties
• Keeping paragraphs and lines together
• Using special formats for headings
• Setting advanced properties

Numbering properties
• Using autonumbered paragraph formats
• Modifying autonumbered paragraph formats
• Using character formats in autonumber formats
• Text-only autonumber formats

Multiple autonumbers
• Resetting autonumbered paragraphs
• Using series labels in autonumbered paragraphs
• Using multiple counters in autonumber formats

Anchored frames
• Working with anchored frames
• Positioning anchored frames in the margin
• Using run into paragraph

Working with tables
• Using tables
• Adjusting tables

Table formats
• Using basic properties
• Using ruling properties
• Using shading properties
• Using the paragraph designer with tables

Master pages
• Background graphics and text on master pages
• Single-sided and double-sided documents
• Custom master pages

Reference pages
• Using reference page graphics on a body page

Variables
• Using system variables
• Adding user variables
• Using table variables

Text insets and cross-references
• Using text insets
• Using cross-references
• Creating and editing cross-reference formats
• Updating cross-references
• Resolving cross-references

Tables of Contents
• Generating a Table of Contents from a document
• Formatting a Table of Contents template

Indexes
• Generating an Index
• Formatting an Index

Books
• Book files
• Setting up numbering and pagination in a book
• Opening, saving, and closing all files in a book
• Generating/updating files in a book
• Generating a Table of Contents for a book