Adobe FrameMaker – Basic Course

The course is designed for regular users, who want to learn to create documents in Adobe FrameMaker.

• basic concepts of setting
• control Adobe FrameMaker
• create  simple documents, creating a group of linked documents - the book
• create master pages, reference pages and pages of the document
• work with paragraphs, characters and styles
• create tables
• define the colors
• create anchored frames
• work with XML / DITA data
• print and export the document to different formats

Basic concepts

• working environment of program
• unstructured and structured environment
• tools, panels, workspace customization
• saving and opening documents
• preferences
• shortcuts
• rulers, guides
• display Modes

Creating documents

• creating a new document
• document properties
• pages and spreads
• masters
• masters of structured documents

Working with text and composition

• text frames
• text frames options
• text editing
• inserting spaces, special characters
• text flow, unstructured import / xml document
• using fonts, missing fonts, font substitution

Text formatting

• local character formatting
• local paragraph formatting
• character styles
• paragraph styles
• tabs
• lists

Colors

• color palette
• viewable - printable
• fill
• stroke

Graphics

• simple drawing in Adobe FrameMaker
• transforming objects
• anchored frames

Tables

• creation of tables
• formatting and editing tables

Outputs from Adobe FrameMaker

• prepress
• export to PDF, XML

Related courses

Typography in Practice [TYPO1]

Adobe InDesign – Basic Course [INDE]

Adobe Acrobat – Creating Press Quality PDFs [ACR4]

Adobe InDesign – Using XML in Publishing [INDE4]

Adobe InDesign – Advanced Techniques [INDE2]