Archive for August 2008

FrameMaker (FM) is such a wonderful software to write long and complicated books and documents. In my long years of experience as a writer, nothing comes close. FM has a very powerful built-in marker functionality with which you can mark not only your index words and cross-references but your “pending stuff” as well. Let’s say…

You want to display different versions of the same text in a FrameMaker technical document. You’d like to toggle different versions on and off. There is one condition however: you do not want to use multiple copies of the same text block (with perhaps different paragraph tags assigned to them) for fear of messing up…

FrameMaker has a very powerful cross-referencing (linking) functionality. You can easily refer to another section or element in your book by a hyperlink that will be alive when you save your document as a PDF file. The linked cross-references are updated automatically when you edit your document or book and select Edit > Update References.…

Introduction Those technical writers who have written manuals running hundreds and even thousands of pages know the difficulty of keeping various kinds of markers under control. But if you are an Adobe FrameMaker user, you are lucky because FM provides you with many ways to mark a document. Comment Marker Open your document and press…

If you have a document that will be printed hardcopy (or distributed as PDF) as well as used as a help file, the hyperlinked page number cross-references usually create a problem since page numbers do not make sense in a help file and should not be there. So what are you going to do? Create…

Here are three important Adobe FrameMaker tips that will save you a lot of time and make your life a little easier. Renaming the FrameMaker Books Think twice before changing the name of a FrameMaker book file especially if the book includes TOC, index, List of Figures (LOF) and List of Tables (LOT) files. Because…