FrameMaker
Adobe FrameMaker Pet Peeve: No Way to Edit and Delete Conditional Text Tags Wholesale Across All the Chapters of a Book
© Ugur Akinci Adobe FrameMaker is a great product that I’ve been using for over 15 years now. It’s dependable, scalable, and won’t leave you stranded in the midst of a project by crashing (unless you run out of RAM, which is a possibility when you’re using FrameMaker together with other resource-hungry applications like RoboHelp,…
Read MoreHow to Use Adobe FrameMaker’s Lock File on Network (.lck) Feature Properly
Adobe FrameMaker has a “Lock File on Network” feature that can both be a great lifesaver and also a sheer nuisance, depending on the situation. You can toggle this feature on and off in FrameMaker 11’s Edit > Preferences dialog screen: Once turned on, FrameMaker starts generating a lock (.lck) file that accomplishes two things:…
Read MoreHow to List All the Image Files Used in a FrameMaker Document
There are times when you may want to have a complete list of all the images included in a FrameMaker document. Perhaps you may want to use this list to make sure all images are zipped and sent to your reviewers. Or perhaps you may want to make sure no carry-over images from another project…
Read MoreAdobe FrameMaker 12 Offers Exciting New Publishing Options
I’ve recently sat in a 2-hour webinar hosted by Adobe on the new Adobe FrameMaker 12. I really liked what I saw and will upgrade to it soon by taking advantage of Adobe’s great limited-time offer to existing registered FM customers: now for only $29.99 a month you can subscribe (online) to the whole TCS5…
Read MoreHow to Suppress Alert Messages in FrameMaker Documents
Adobe FrameMaker is such a smart program that if you have any fonts missing, if any of the cross-reference links are broken, it’ll let you know right away when you are opening the file by displaying an alert message. Alert messages are a great way to correct what’s wrong with your document except… when you…
Read More6 Ways to Display Paragraph Style Catalog in Adobe FrameMaker
© Ugur Akinci Adobe FrameMaker offers many ways to organize and display your paragraph style catalog that comes in very handy when your are working on a document or creating a template out of the document you are currently working on. 1) Display the paragraph style catalog (Format > Paragraph > Catalog). 2) Scroll down…
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How to Turn Off and Hide Images in an Adobe FrameMaker Document
Introduction There may be times when you might want to hide the FrameMaker images in a large Adobe FrameMaker document by turning them off. For example, imagine you have a 1,000 page document with 500 complicated images. Opening and closing such a file may take time. You might be snagged if any of the images…
Read MoreHow to Draw Symmetrical Objects in Adobe FrameMaker
Granted, Adobe FrameMaker is not designed as the mother of all illustration programs. Its graphic capabilities are limited but still plenty for most general purposes if you know how to use FM’s graphic tools. Here is an easy method I use to draw symmetrical objects in FrameMaker. 1) Make a line drawing by using the…
Read MoreHow to Import Adobe FrameMaker 11 Object Styles from one Document to Another
© Ugur Akinci Once you create your preferred Object Styles for a technical document, you do not need to re-create them for other files of the book. You can just import them from one file to all the other documents in the collection. Select File > Import > Formats to display the Import Formats dialog…
Read MoreHow to Create Object Styles in Adobe FrameMaker
One of the great new features introduced with Adobe FrameMaker is the “Object Styles” — the ability to assign styles to anchored frames, text frames, images, etc. By using Object Styles, for example, you can make sure all your anchored frames throughout a document will be of the same size, positioned to the left of…
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