by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Mar 17, 2016 From a past Rocky Mountain Training student: Hi Barb! Can you help me with something? How do I reduce the space between the image and the table? Thanks for any help you can offer. I’m stuck! I see a few options to reduce the space […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker One of my regular FrameMaker layout jobs is chock full-o-footnotes. I know from polling many FrameMaker students over many years that most FrameMaker users don’t use very many footnotes, if any. Wish that was true for me, but it isn’t, and that’s why I still hold out hope […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker This question (and answer) came in recently from one of my Advanced FrameMaker students: Hi Barb, Here’s my NoteImage and NoteText in the NoteTable tag. Is there a way to keep this spacing as I add text to the note? I want Note to stay at the bottom […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Illustrator, InDesign and FrameMaker Yesterday, I had the opportunity to deliver an Adobe-hosted webinar on incorporating Illustrator into a FrameMaker workflow. Illustrator is included with TCS4, and Creative Suite and Creative Cloud, but most of my layout students have confessed that they don’t ever open it. Turns out, they […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated on Nov 7, 2016 From a recent Rocky Mountain Training Advanced FrameMaker student: I am working with a two-level list. The first level uses numbers, and the second list uses letters. The numbers start out correctly; as do the letters, but when I go back to numbers, things […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 23, 2020 From a recent Rocky Mountain Training FrameMaker student: I took your FrameMaker class at the beginning of the year. I have a question about variables that hopefully you can help with. I need to make a variable that contains a trademark symbol, but I can’t […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 22, 2020 Sometimes the appearance of a new feature in your favorite software application makes you immediately wonder how you ever survived without it. So how about those new line numbers in that showed up in Adobe FrameMaker 11? I wasn’t immediately bowled over by their […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Jan 21, 2021 In an earlier post, I showed how to assign a graphic to a paragraph style (see Adobe FrameMaker: More on Reference Pages). It’s a great solution when you want an image to appear above or below a given paragraph. However, two students in yesterday’s […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Yes, I do! I’m working on a publication that requires the use of Myriad Pro SemiBold. I copied the font to my Windows 7 fonts folder and fired up FrameMaker, fully expecting to see it listed in Paragraph Designer. Sadly, I couldn’t find it. After mulling it over […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker From one of our recent Adobe FrameMaker students: How do you watermark a page in FrameMaker? While this seems like a simple enough activity, she was tripped up by one unexpected default. Here’s the process: 1. Create the watermark graphic in your favorite graphics application. (Personally, I’d lean towards […]
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