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© Ugur Akinci In Adobe FrameMaker underlining a sentence or paragraph produces uneven results if the fonts do not have the same size. Here is an example: To eliminate this ugly-looking variation in line width, follow these easy steps: 1) Select the FrameMaker text. 2) Display your Character Designer (Ctrl + D, or select Format…

Say you have a FrameMaker book consisting of 100 chapters. Your client has asked you to update the book and insert a “New Edition 2010” notice to every page footer. How would you do it? As usual, there’s a hard way and a relatively easier way. The hard way is no secret: you open every…

Follow these steps to add a drop-down sub-menu to an Adobe FrameMaker image. 1) Do everything described in this post and create a drop-down menu attached to your image. 2) Then, go to your Reference Pages by either using the Esc+v+R shortcut or selecting View > Reference Pages from the menu. 3) On any reference…

Introduction Would you like to add a 1- or 2-level drop-down menu to any image in your Adobe FrameMaker technical document Follow These Easy Steps It’s easy and this is how: 1) Create a new FrameMaker (FM) document or open an existing one. 2) Either add a new image or select an existing one. For…

© 2010 Ugur Akinci Rotating selected objects is no big deal in Adobe FrameMaker. If you know the shortcuts, it’s a breeze. Here is a short hotkey list to help you rotate objects any way you like: Display Rotate Selected Objects dialog box to rotate a selected object by a specific degree, in any direction  …

Here are some great shortcuts to help you zoom in and out of your Adobe FrameMaker document. They all depend on the Esc + z combo keys. Display Zoom Menu Options dialog box    Esc z s Zoom in one step    Esc z i Zoom out one step    Esc z o Zoom to fit the window…

© 2010 Ugur Akinci The Ctrl+q combination of key strokes creates some very useful alphanumeric effects in Adobe FrameMaker. Keep the following list next to your keyboard when working on your FM document: Ctrl + q + 1 – ± Ctrl + q + 6 – ¹ (Superscript 1) Ctrl + q + 7 –…

© 2010 Ugur Akinci Adobe FrameMaker 9 (FM9)’s master pages are powerful layout tools that will help you organize your document easily. Anything on the master page template is repeated on every page that uses that template, saving you time and effort. You can insert VARIABLES onto a master page as well. On a body…

VIDEO: How to Make a View-Only FrameMaker 9 file Editable again… What would you do if you’re trying to edit an Adobe FrameMaker document but a warning message tells you that you can’t do that because the document is “view only”? One obvious solution: launch your Windows Explorer. Find the file. Right-click and select the…