by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker From a recent Rocky Mountain Training Advanced Adobe FrameMaker 11 student: Hi, Barb. Here’s a question for you. I want to be able to produce an index with entries similar to the following: If I’m reading Frame’s online help correctly, I SHOULD be able to automate adding the “(standard)” after the […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 25, 2020 Author’s Note: This post was written in 2012 for FrameMaker 11 and works for versions 11, 12, 13, 2015 and 2017. In FrameMaker 2019 and later, the PDF export process was updated. Bookmarks, Tags and Links can still be modified for each file using […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker From a recent Rocky Mountain Training Introduction to Adobe FrameMaker 11 student: A real quick question…I have FrameMaker version 9. I downloaded the trial for 11 to take the class. My 30 day trial ends today. I attempted to open my files using 9 but can’t. I get […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker From a recent Rocky Mountain Training Advanced Adobe FrameMaker 11 student: Hi, Barb. Hey, your class was super helpful to me; I am making great progress toward my 10/31 deadline! I have a question that I haven’t been able to find an answer to myself. Is it possible […]
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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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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 16, 2018 If you haven’t had the chance to explore FrameMaker’s object styles, then you are missing a terrific productivity tool. Experienced FrameMaker users learn to rely heavily on paragraph, character and table styles. Really, what would we do without them? The benefit of styles in […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Haven you taken a look at the Zoom pop-up menu in FrameMaker 11? It’s sporting a new look. Compare the FrameMaker 10 Zoom menu on the left, with the FrameMaker 11 Zoom menu on the right: Is it just me, or are we missing a few commands? This […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe FrameMaker This question just came in from one of my past Adobe FrameMaker students: I have a table with many rows and I want to split it into 5 tables. Not changing content. Just want to break it up. Say, take a 50-row table and break it into […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on Adobe FrameMaker Updated: Mar 17, 2015 This question came in yesterday: How do I get a paragraph tag that is present in one .fm file (and its corresponding paragraph catalog) to appear in all the .fm files and paragraph catalogs within the same book? Of course there is a […]
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by Barb Binder Updated: Nov 12, 2022 NOTE: I just ran across this post from 10 years ago and I’m really happy to report that a number of these wishes have been incorporated in the current versions of Adobe FrameMaker. I’m adding checkmarks ✅ in front of the features that have been added or changed since I […]
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