by Barb Binder What do religion, politics and hyphenation have in common? These are emotional subjects for most of my students, and I try to keep discussion on all three of them out of the classroom. If you are thinking that hyphenation couldn’t possibly fall into that category, then you probably haven’t spent much time teaching […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated May 27, 2018 When I produce a book in FrameMaker I usually begin by importing Word documents that have been sent to me from a variety of authors. These files will frequently contain colors that float into my FrameMaker documents with the Word files, but I rarely […]
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by Barb Binder Sure you know how to get from one page to another in a FrameMaker document, but are you a Page Navigation Expert? If not, you certainly should be. As I’ve said many times, shaving seconds off your work here and there can quickly add up to minutes or even hours of production time […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: May 23, 2020 In a previous post, Adobe FrameMaker: Adding Tabs to a Table of Contents, I talked about how to use the TOC Reference page to add the missing tab between a table of contents text entry and the page number that follows it. Here […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Oct 29, 2023 “Discoverable”. That’s a new Adobe buzzword for features that users can discover on their own. I’d say that adding a tab character between the entries and page numbers in a table of contents does not fall into that category. One of my most […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: July 14, 2021 In FrameMaker, bullets are defined in the Numbering Properties of the Paragraph Designer. If you are willing to use a plain, round bullet • you are in luck! It’s the very first option shown: Just select the bullet symbol and the tab character as […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated Mar 21, 2022 FrameMaker offers us two ways to restart numbered lists in our documents: a manual technique and an automatic option. Restarting a List Manually Let’s start by examining the manual option, which is built into the Paragraph Catalog of all new FrameMaker documents. If you […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Aug 31, 2020 For those of you transitioning to FrameMaker from Microsoft Word, the empty pages left at the end of a document can be bothersome. The first rule to learn is that the single fastest way to delete empty pages is to save your document. When […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Jul 28, 2023 Ever wondered how to edit the rules listed in Table Designer? When you are designing a new table format, or refining an existing one, you need to make decisions about how the ruling lines should look in your tables. When you go to […]
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by Barb Binder Updated for FrameMaker 2015 on May 3, 2016 FrameMaker has had a view-only option for as long as I can remember. Long before most of us began using Acrobat for view-only file distribution, a product called FrameViewer was available to address that need for early FrameMaker users. The idea was that you could […]
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