How 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 Create Technical Manuals and Help Files with Dr.Explain
How to Create Technical Manuals and Help Files with Dr.Explain I heard about Dr.Explain only recently. It’s a great layout and text editor for creating all kinds of technical manuals and help files. Especially for dedicated MS Word users, it offers a wealth of options, including the ability to capture automatically-annotated screenshots that even RoboHelp…
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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