FrameMaker 2019 Structured Workbooks now available

Calling all aspiring FrameMaker structured authors template designers! My Structured Authoring and Structured EDD development workbooks are now available for ordering in the Books section in the menu above. I’ve gone through all the lessons and exercise files, and updated all the screen captures to match the FrameMaker 2019 release. I’ve also redesigned the covers…

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FrameMaker 2019 Update 3 now available

Adobe released FrameMaker 2019 Update 3 today. Use the Help > Updates menu item in FrameMaker 2019 to update, or visit https://supportdownloads.adobe.com/product.jsp?product=22&platform=Windows to download the updater manually. Interested in FrameMaker 2019 training? See TRAINING in the menu above for a free Introduction to FrameMaker 2019 course, as well as courses in advanced authoring and template design…

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Achieving Content Nirvana with FrameMaker

Content nirvana: A state of content bliss, free from the repetitive effort and suffering associated with digital publishing and ad hoc formatting. How to get there The first step on this path is to understand where your time is currently being spent, and in particular, where you are spending time on things other than content creation…

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Publishing Context-Sensitive Help (CSH) with FrameMaker

You’ll need to do two things prior to publishing CSH with FrameMaker: Create CSH markers Create and edit a map (.h) file To publish context-sensitive Help, you need markers in your documents that FrameMaker can use to create links in your output for your developers. FrameMaker uses TopicAlias markers to store map ID information in…

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