Mekon Training Courses
Adobe FrameMaker 7.0:
Template Design Workshop
Who should attend the course?
This course provides the definitive introduction to the design of templates using FrameMaker 7. It is aimed at "knowledge workers" and those with the responsibility for designing templates to a high standard. It is suitable for the designers of both unstructured and structured templates.
How long is the course?
3 Days (optional extra day).
What are the benefits of attending?
You will learn a design methodology for producing templates for documents and books, both structured and unstructured. The course incorporates good practice and provides advanced techniques to ensure documents and books can be maintained and updated efficiently in the future. It ensures that the power of FrameMaker 7 is fully utilised. At the end of the course you will possess an in-depth understanding of FrameMaker which will enable you to design templates for complex documents and books immediately.
What are the prerequisites?
You should have attended either the "Working with Unstructured Documents" or "Working with Structured Documents" course or have a similar level of knowledge of FrameMaker.
You need to be familiar with PCs and the Windows environment.
Course Outline
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The Design Process
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Why templates are important
The template design process
Structured and unstructured documents
The document environment
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The Design Workshop
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Stage 1 Designing the initial page layout
Stage 2 Setting document properties
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Designing paragraph styles-basic and
default font properties
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Paragraph Designer-Default Font properties
Paragraph Designer-Basic properties
Applying paragraph properties
Creating a new paragraph style
The Paragraph Catalog
To delete a tag from the Paragraph Catalog
Basic properties-line spacing
Basic properties-paragraph spacing
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Refining paragraph styles-numbering
properties
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Numbering properties
Building Blocks
Series labels
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Refining paragraph styles-pagination
and advanced properties
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Straddle across columns
Control paragraph location
Keep with
Widow and orphan properties
Adjust paragraph hyphenation
Apply global update options
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Designing character styles
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Character Designer
Applying character properties
Creating a new character style
The Character Catalog
Deleting a tag from the Character Catalog
Types of character style
Applying a character style to an autonumber
Special bulleted paragraphs
Renaming character tags
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Preparing for graphics
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Text-anchored graphics
Text-anchored frames
Anchoring strategy
Straddling figures across columns
Reference pages
Reference frames
Including a reference frame in a paragraph style
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Designing table styles
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Table styles
Table Designer-Basic properties
Applying table properties
Creating a new table style
Naming conventions
Anchoring strategy
Table Designer-Ruling properties
Table Designer-Shading properties
Preparing paragraph styles for the table
Including a graphic into a table style
Creating new table ruling styles
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Designing cross-reference formats
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Cross-reference formats
Defining a new format
Unstructured building blocks
Structured building blocks
Deleting Cross-reference formats
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Designing page layout
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Body pages
Master pages
Single-sided and double-sided documents
Flow-tagged and untagged text frames
Headers and footers
Custom page layout
Adding a text frame to a master page
Connecting text frames
Page-anchoring
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Book Building
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Creating a book file
Organising book files
Setting up numbering for chapters in a book.
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Tables of Contents
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Generating a Table of Contents
Formatting a Table of Contents template
Changing the form and content of the Table of Contents
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Indexes
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Generating an Index
Formatting an Index
Changing the organisation and content of the Index
Optional Modules
All these modules can be substituted for modules in the standard list or they can all be taken in an optional extra day.
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Colour Definitions
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Conditional Text Options
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Customising Footnotes
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Change Bars and Version Control
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Advanced Page Layout
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