Fee: $1,290.00 per person

Materials: Participants receive reference materials related to course topics. Follow up support by email or phone, on topics covered, is available to participants for 90 days (4 hour limit).

Further Learning:
XML
Essentials
Adobe FrameMaker
Structured FrameMaker Template Design and Best Practises EDD Development
Adobe FrameMaker
Authoring Structured Documents

Objectives:

Upon successful completion attendees will be able to:

• Document Analysis - identify and determine the needs of those who will use the documents

• Plan the FrameMaker template

• Determine the output the document will be viewed in Principles of good document design

• Page layout - page size, white space, margins, typefaces, type sizes, leading, line width, interactions of type size, line width and leading

• Highlight techniques - tips, notes

• Provide specific format considerations for technical manuals: Copy formats

• Create a 'usage and rules' document for authors

• Localization (translation) considerations

• Apply settings: Body pages; apply Master pages; Headers and footers; Add custom master pages; Map paragraph tags to master pages

• Add text frames

• Refine Paragraph Styles with the Paragraph Designer

• Use keep with options

• Understand Widow and orphan properties

• Adjust paragraph hyphenation

• Apply global update options

• Work with advanced numbering properties, building blocks, series labels

• Design character styles: Create and apply character styles; apply a character style to an autonumber

• Special bulleted paragraph styles

• Use Color: Apply color to character, paragraph, and table tags

• Tables: Create new table styles, apply table properties; ruling and properties; paragraph styles in tables; include graphics in tables

• Work with Reference Pages

• Boiler plate graphics

• Book Building: Set up numbering for chapters in a book; create a book file

• Tables of Contents: Generate and format a table of contents

• Indexes: Generate and format an Index

• Test and Update Templates

• Organize your Templates

Optional Topics: May be able to covered over the three day period:

• Anchored Frames and Graphics

• Variables: Insert, change and add variables

• Conditional Tags: Apply conditional tags to text

• Create a conditional watermark

• Cross-references: Change cross-reference formats - add building blocks and character tags; add custom cross-reference formats, Hyper-link cross-references