Inserting non-equation characters into FrameMaker equations
One of the students in my FrameMaker course discovered she couldn’t type character strings containing spaces (like volume in cubic feet) into equations. It turns out there’s more than one easy way around this problem. While investigating the issue I discovered there are other characters that don’t easily fit into FrameMaker equations, including the underbar (_) character.…
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FrameMaker 2017+ Wishlist: Scope of Find/Change and Spell Check
One of my favorite things about the Tech Comm Tools community is the conversations I get to have with members. Click here to join my free Tech Comm Tools community Rushina P. emailed me with this suggestion: Hi Matt, I [have] one small suggestion for future FM releases. Can we have a feature in FM to use…
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FrameMaker 2017 NEW FEATURE: The Project Manager
The Project Manager Starting with FrameMaker 2017, the Project Manager gives you the ability to collect assets related to one or more projects without directly including them in a book file. One of the biggest advantages to a project file is drag and drop access to your graphics files. Once you’ve added a folder to…
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FrameMaker 2017 NEW FEATURE: Support for High Resolution Displays (4K)
Got a super high-res monitor? With FrameMaker 2017, you can now make use of every last pixel. Check out this video I created for Adobe to find out how. Script from the video The latest 2017 release of Adobe FrameMaker has a new user interface with crisp icons and a richer contrast ratio. Where possible, we…
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