FrameMaker 9

Cost:

$595.00 (Online Class - Lodestone Live)
$795.00 (Lodestone Training Center)

Time: 10 AM - 4:30 PM EST
Length: 2 day class
Type: Instructor-led

Course Description:

FrameMaker 9 is the workhorse of long document creation. In this class you will experience how to use FrameMaker 9 for Unstructured content creation. FrameMaker, which is at the core of the Adobe Technical Communication Suite, has long been the gold standard for writing, illustrating, and laying out technical documentation in print. With new features like support for rich media objects and powerful PDF export, FrameMaker excels at authoring online documents as well.

Learning Objectives:

After learning the fundamentals of FrameMaker 9 students will be able to:

• Style paragraphs
• Place graphics
• Create tables
• Add captions, cross-references, and footnotes
• Build a Table of contents and index
• Prepare content for output to print or to screen (PDF or HTML)
• Working with Unicode
• Use DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) to structure documents using XML

Target Audience:

This class is great for beginners of FrameMaker who need to create long documents. This could be books, documentation and product manuals. Instruction Designers, authors, writers, educators, and documentation specialists will all benefit by going through this class.

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Working with FrameMaker 9 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 9
• Structure and XML Integration into FrameMaker 9
• Why XML is useful
• Understanding the concept behind structure

To Register:

Toll Free - 866.665.9441 or click on a date to register online.

10/18-10/19/2010
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST

Instructor:
Josh Cavalier

Lodestone Training Center:
Charlotte or Online

Please note, assigned instructor may change. Lodestone confirms instructor schedules two weeks prior to class date.

*Classes are online via Lodestone Live and at a Lodestone training center.
The only time that a class will cancel is either if there is a power failure or other major disruption in service.