| Overview: This three-day course teaches participants the skills necessary to author and publish DITA-compliant documents with Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 and the Adobe DITA plug-in. Students will learn the concepts behind DITA, such as information typing and topic-based authoring.
Duration: 3 days
Fee: $1,290 per person
Upcoming Dates:
May 21-23
Prerequisite: Adobe FrameMaker: Basics training or equivalent knowledge.
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Delivery: Instructor-led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities and assignments.
Materials: Participants receive reference materials related to course topics. Sample files used in class are available by email, or on disk. Follow up support by email or phone, on topics covered, is available to participants for 90 days.
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Objectives: Upon successful completion attendees will be able to:
- Understand the history, philosophy, and motivation behind DITA.
- Create task, concept, and reference topics using structured FrameMaker 7.2.
- Create DITA map files to specify collections of topics.
- Use DITA map files to specify hierarchical and sequential relationships between topics.
- Publish DITA topics as FrameMaker books.
- Integrate FrameMaker 7.2 with the DITA Open Toolkit for publishing to HTML and other formats.
- Understand DITA content references (conrefs) to re-use DITA content.
- Apply Metadata to support filtering of DITA content for multiple audiences.
- Customize the FrameMaker DITA template to adjust the format of DITA PDF output.
- Specialize the FrameMaker DITA plug-in to meet more specific information modeling requirements.
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