by Barb Binder I had an opportunity last week to teach an Advanced Acrobat X class for one of the well-known ski towns in Colorado. The folks in my class were responsible for reviewing building plans from architects, engineers and even the untrained homeowner scribbling on a napkin to make sure that the plans adhered to […]
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by Barb Binder It’s easy to ignore the Description tab of the Document Properties dialog box in Adobe Acrobat. You may never even think about it as you create, enhance and review your PDFs. But if you start amassing a large collection of PDFs, that would be a grave mistake. The Description fields are easily searched […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Acrobat Updated Nov 18, 2020 for Acrobat DC Yesterday, I found myself in the undesirable situation of having just created 50+ PDFs that were ready to be sent to the client, only to realize that I forgot to enter the description fields… on all of them! (If you […]
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by Barb Binder I received the following inquiry from one of my recent Advanced Adobe FrameMaker students. I have a question about formatting tables in FrameMaker 9. My document has a large table that is built with 6 columns (example below): I need to create additional rows at the bottom of the table, that evenly divide […]
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by Barb Binder I was asked this question twice today: once during today’s Introduction to FrameMaker 9/10 class, and again via email by a student from a past FrameMaker class: I’m […] trying to get book chapters to auto-number. I have added them to my book, carefully following instructions in the guide, but I am getting […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Oct 20, 2022 NOTE: This method will still work in any version of FrameMaker. However, the process has been greatly simplified with the Fall 2022 release of FrameMaker (v17). See Adobe FrameMaker: Tracking the Last Page Number in a Book. In a previous post (Adobe FrameMaker: The […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 23, 2020 FrameMaker makes it easy to track (and reference) the page count of a single chapter. FrameMaker comes with a Page Count variable that makes it easy to set up running heads with page numbers that look like this: 1 of 6, 2 of […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 26, 2020 Once upon a time, the vision for FrameMaker was to be one of those 3-in-1 programs that were popular back in the ‘80s (remember Lotus 1-2-3?). The three components were word processing, illustration and page layout. Fast forward 30 years and FrameMaker is […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 26, 2020 Another question I regularly hear from my Adobe FrameMaker students is how to quickly compare two different versions of a single file. There’s an easy answer, but because the command isn’t readily visible, it’s often overlooked. Here’s how it works: Open two versions […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 26, 2020 The next topic in our FrameMaker Editing series is on Track Text Edits. (Previous articles in the series are on Change Bars and Compare Documents.) This is a familiar tool for many Word users, and is a terrific way to allow an author […]
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