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Adobe FrameMaker — Cool Ctrl + F6 Navigation Tricks
Do you use Adobe FrameMaker? Here are some cool, short, and sweet FrameMaker tricks. 1) When you select a pod… No matter how many pods you have open in an Adobe FrameMaker document, you can navigate from one to the other by just pressing Ctrl + F6 Amazingly, this works even if the pods are…
Read More3 (Great!) Adobe FrameMaker Page-Navigation Shortcuts to Save you Time
© 2010 Ugur Akinci VIDEO: Adobe FrameMaker Page Shortcuts If you’re a regular Adobe FrameMaker user, one thing goes without saying: you’ll be doing a lot of tripping back and forth between these 3 main types of pages: Body Pages Master Pages Reference Pages Yes, you can certainly select View from the main menu and…
Read More10 FrameMaker 9 Features I Like
© 2010 Ugur Akinci NOTE: To turn any toolbar on or off, select View > Toolbars from the main menu and then select the toolbar you want from the pop-up sub-menu. (1) HISTORY Panel. Press Ctrl + K or the History button on the Quick Access Toolbar to display the HISTORY of your past actions.…
Read MoreFrameMaker and TCS offer "Shared Review" of Technical Documents
Technical communicators now have a new workflow option to get their documents reviewed: “Shared Review” offered by Technical Communication Suite 2 (TCS2). Why “Shared Review”? To synchronize all review comments and use a single document for updating the reviews. Eliminating errors due to different reviewers not being aware of each other’s comments and/or the technical…
Read MoreDid You Know these FrameMaker Facts?
© 2010 Ugur Akinci I love FrameMaker. I’ve been using it on an almost daily basis for the last 12 years. It’s my authoring and publishing tool of reference for all book-length manuscripts with images, tables, TOC, Index, and multiple lists (of tables, figures, etc.), and complex pagination. It’s solid, scalable without any worries, and…
Read MoreSome Useful Adobe FrameMaker Spacing Shortcuts
Em Space — Esc + SpaceBar + m En Space — Esc + SpaceBar + n Numeric Space — Esc + SpaceBar + 1 (this equals the width of number Zero in that font) Thin Space — Esc + SpaceBar + t (this equals 1/12th of the width of Em Space in that font) Nonbreaking…
Read MoreTips for Converting FrameMaker Files into RoboHelp Files
FrameMaker and RoboHelp work together pretty well. The integration between these two applications (that come with Technical Communication Suite) is smooth and relatively problem-free, if not perfect. Advantage of RoboHelp over Web Works One obvious advantage of RH over FM’s old-mate Web Works is this: WW is basically a conversion platform custom designed for FrameMaker.…
Read MoreFrameMaker Tip: How to Copy Formats Between Chapters of a Book
© 2009 Ugur Akinci Imagine you have a FrameMaker Book with 50 chapters. Just before you generate a PDF and distribute it to the client, your client (or manager) showed up with a last-minute demand: you have to change all the Document Title, Part Number and Release Date information in the FOOTER. And you have…
Read MoreFrameMaker XML Authoring Projects using Hierarchical Books
Technical writers can use the Hierarchical Books in Adobe FrameMaker 9 as XML Authoring Projects. They can keep structapps, EDD, Template, Read Write rules etc inside the book component hierarchy. Snapshot of a Book which contains XML files and all other structured application files in a logical Folder. Click here for the rest of this…
Read MoreFrameMaker – How to Insert Text Inside an Anchored Frame
© Ugur Akinci PROBLEM: You would like to insert a text inside a frame (box) in FrameMaker (FM) with one condition: you’d like to have both the text and the frame move appropriately with the rest of the body text when anything is deleted or added to your document. SOLUTION: 1] Let’s assume that this…
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