FrameMaker 8
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FrameMaker 8
Course Outline:
Lesson 1: Working with FrameMaker 8 Documents
- Exploring the document window
- Applying predefined paragraph formats
- Applying predefined character formats
- Character and Paragraph Formats
- Paragraph & Character Designers
- Character Font Properties
- Default Font and Basic properties
- Tab Properties
- Pagination and Advanced Properties
- Numbering Properties
- Frame Auto Numbering Basics
- Multiple Autonumbers
- Paragraph & Character Format Importing
Lesson 2: Defining Paragraph Formats
- Creating a custom document
- Copying text
- Setting up rulers and the grid
- Creating a side-head area
- Displaying the Paragraph Designer
- Formatting headings
- Formatting body text
- Formatting numbered lists
- Formatting bulleted lists
- Creating a chapter title
- Deleting formats
Lesson 3: Defining Colors and Character Formats
- Defining custom colors and tints
- Adding color to paragraph formats
- Adding color to autonumbers
- Emphasizing words and phrases
Lesson 4: Page Layout
- Changing column layout
- Displaying master pages
- Numbering pages
- Creating a running footer
- Custom master pages
- Assigning master pages to paragraph tags
- Create a new paragraph format
Lesson 5: Graphics
- Adjusting header and footer frames for graphics
- Importing a graphic
- Masking Graphics
- Copying graphics
- Drawing lines and rectangles
- Aligning and distributing objects
Lesson 6: Document Editing
- Viewing the document
- Turning off the display of graphics
- Defining a user variable
- Inserting variables
- Finding and changing text
- Changing a variable definition
- Using the Thesaurus
- Checking spelling
Lesson 7: Tables
- Inserting a table
- Filling in the table
- Adding rows and columns
- Rearranging information
- Formatting text in table cells
- Resizing columns
- Changing the table format
- Straddling table cells
- Reusing a table format
Lesson 8: Customizing Tables
- Viewing a sample table
- Importing text into a table
- Formatting body cells
- Formatting the table title
- Setting basic table properties
- Resizing columns
- Using tabs in table cells
- Defining ruling styles
- Setting table ruling
- Using custom ruling and shading
Lesson 9: Anchored Frames and Graphics
- Editing text containing anchored frames
- Importing a graphic
- Anchoring graphics in the column
- Using art in the margin
- Copying anchored frames
- Using inline graphics
- Reusing anchored frames
- Using run-in art
- Creating a drop cap
- Importing movies into documents
Lesson 10: Cross-References and Footnotes
- Inserting a paragraph cross-reference
- Displaying the source of a cross-reference
- Inserting an external cross-reference
- Creating a cross-reference format
- Using the new cross-reference format
- Resolving cross-references
- Inserting footnotes
- Changing how footnotes look
Lesson 11: Books
- Creating a book file
- Adding documents to the book
- Opening files from the book window
- Adding a table of contents
- Generating the table of contents
- Setting up chapter numbering
- Fixing the pagination
- Changing the layout
- Adding a title
- Formatting the entries
- Changing the contents of entries
Lesson 12: Indexes
- Adding an index to the book
- Changing the layout
- Adding a title
- Updating the page footer
- Formatting the entries
- Formatting page numbers
- Fixing bad line breaks
- Adding index entries
- Editing index entries
Lesson 13: Conditional Text
- Viewing conditional text
- Setting up your document
- Creating condition tags
- Adding conditional text
- Tagging text as you type
- Adding a conditional graphic
- Adding conditional table rows
- Saving versions of a conditional document
Lesson 14: Hypertext and PDF
- Creating a hypertext TOC and index
- Using cross-references as hypertext links
- Testing hypertext links
- Adding navigation buttons
- Saving as Hypertext, HTML
- Saving as PDF
Lesson 15: HTML and Web Publishing
- Viewing the finished document
- Saving as HTML
- Viewing the results in a Web browser
- Refining the mappings
- Specifying a graphic format
- Adding hypertext links
- Splitting the document into multiple Web pages
- Viewing the results in HTML
- Review questions and Answers
- Part Two Structured Adobe FrameMaker 8
- Structure and XML Integration into FrameMaker 8
- Why XML is useful
- Understanding the concept behind structure
Lesson 16: Structured Documents
- FrameMaker 8 for structured authoring
- Structured features
- Structured FrameMaker 8 window and menu
- Setting up Structured FrameMaker 8 work space
- Working in the Structure window
- Collapsing and expanding elements
- Viewing attributes
- Using the Element Catalog
- Display options
- Changing display options
- Creating a custom element list
Lesson 17: Authoring XML
- FrameMaker 8 for structured authoring
- A brief XML tutorial
- CIBColorDoc1. fm to CIBColorFinal. fm
Lesson 18: Exporting and Importing Structured Files
- Exporting to XML
- Exporting to PDF
- Viewing the XML file in a browser
- Viewing the PDF file in Adobe Acrobat
- The XML Round trip
- WebWorks Publisher
- Creating a WWP project file for HTML conversion
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