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How to Publish in Multiple Formats with Adobe FrameMaker
Adobe FrameMaker comes with a powerful publishing functionality that can publish in five different output formats: Responsive HTML5 (which automatically adapts the help controls according to screen width) ePub Kindle Web Help Microsoft HTML Help (This is of course in addition all the other output formats (like PDF) that you can select when you are doing a…
Read MoreHow to Use System Variables in Adobe FrameMaker to Create Automatically-Updated Meta Information
Adobe FrameMaker comes with a wealth of built-in SYSTEM VARIABLES. They are all listed in the VARIABLES pod. You can create fresh and automatically-updated meta-information (like chapter and page numbers, etc.) easily by using them. Here is how the variables pod look for a newly created FM 12 document: (Click to enlarge the images) When…
Read MoreHow to Create a Structured FrameMaker Document from an Unstructured FM Document by using a Conversion Table
The future belongs to structured authoring but what to do with all that unstructured legacy FrameMaker files sitting on our hard-drives? The obvious answer is of course start to convert them into structured FM documents. If you have Adobe FrameMaker it’s not that hard a process either. Here is a simple way to convert unstructured…
Read MoreFour Basic DITA Elements in Adobe FrameMaker – Topic, Concept, Task, Reference
There are four basic DITA elements that you can create easily in Adobe FrameMaker 12: Topic Concept Task Reference Topic A topic consists of a single self-contained subject matter. When created through the DITA > New DITA File menu option, a FrameMaker DITA topic looks like this: NOTE: To view the tags, select View >…
Read MoreFramemaker 12 DITA Tutorial – How to Create a Topic, Concept, Task, or Reference
© Ugur Akinci Creating an XML DITA document is so easy when you have Adobe FrameMaker 12 because everything is built-in and ready-made for you. Let’s start with creating a DITA topic in Adobe FrameMaker 12… First make sure you have selected the Structured interface for your copy of FM. Select DITA > New DITA…
Read MoreHow to Set the General Preference Settings for Adobe FrameMaker
Select Edit > Preferences from Adobe Frame Maker 12 menu bar to display the Preferences dialog box: Here are the explanations of some of the General preferences: Product Interface: select one from the drop-down menu. Monitor Size: select one from the drop-down menu. Automatic Backup on Save: Select this check-box if you would like to save an automatic copy…
Read MoreHow to Copy FrameMaker Table Background Color from One Row to Another – 3 Methods
If you want to copy the background color from one row to another in an Adobe FrameMaker table there are a few methods to do it. METHOD 1 1) Select the row from where you’d like to copy the background color. 2) Right-click and from the pop-up menu select “Custom Ruling and Shading” to display…
Read MoreAdobe FrameMaker 12 Default Document Templates
Adobe FrameMaker has not been a product in the past that offered a wealth of attractive templates to use. For some reason FM developers have not considered the lack of templates a great issue even though it was. I have known quite a few technical writers who kept generating one average looking document after another (or shifted…
Read MoreFrameMaker – RoboHelp Integration – when to preserve modifications to a RoboHelp file?
© Ugur Akinci If you prepare your source files in FrameMaker and then import (or rather, link) them to a RoboHelp project like I do, there is one feature that you should pay attention to. When you bring in a source file and then save it in RH, the application displays the following warning message:…
Read MoreTwo Ways to Work with Conditional Text Tags in RoboHelp and FrameMaker
Conditional text tags are at the heart of “single sourcing integration” between Adobe RoboHelp (RH) and Adobe FrameMaker (FM), especially if you are using FM in the unstructured mode. Even though it is possible to create your source files in RH and then use RH10 or RH11’s many delivery formats including PDF and HTML, a…
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