| Overview: This three day course teaches participants the concepts they need to know to design a template supported by the tool that they are using.
Duration: 3 days
Fee: $1,290 per person
Upcoming Dates:
Sep. 15-17, Dec. 10-12
Prerequisite: A solid understanding of Adobe FrameMaker: Basics and concepts such as developing tags (Paragraph, Character, Table), managing files in books, building cross-references and so on.
Delivery: Instructor-led, hands-on, classroom-delivery training.
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.
Further Learning:
Training in tools such as Adobe Acrobat 8: Essentials I, Adobe FrameMaker: EDD Development, XML: Two Day Basics theory and practical application training.
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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
- Refine Paragraph Styles with the Paragraph Designer
- Understand Widow and orphan properties
- Adjust paragraph hyphenation
- Apply global update options
- Work with advanced numbering properties, building blocks, series labels
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Objectives: (continued)
- 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
- 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
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
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