Template Design Best Practices
Overview:
Our FrameMaker Template Design course emphasizes the development of FrameMaker templates incorporating the principles of good document design and best practices using FrameMaker’s powerful features. Many of the topics will be familiar to those using FrameMaker.
Please note: This course is version agnostic. It covers the why & how of template content and documentation design.
This course is only for unstructured templates.
Structured templates require a structured application and then template format is mapped to the structured elements, i.e. EDD creation.
This three day course teaches participants the concepts they need to know to use best practices to design a template supported by FrameMaker.
Delivery: Instructor-led, hands-on delivery either online, or onsite.
Duration: Flexible scheduling
Further Learning:
XML – Essentials
Adobe FrameMaker – Read/Write Rules
Adobe FrameMaker – Structured FrameMaker EDD Development
Adobe FrameMaker – Authoring Structured Documents
Authoring Structured FrameMaker Documents
Overview:
The Authoring Structured Documents course introduces you to FrameMaker’s structured interface and shows you how to create documents with elements. Learn about elements, their relationships to each other, and how to modify them in the structure view.
You’ll create content by inserting elements for text, cross-references, variables, and other components. By working with the elements in a sample structured template, you’ll see how templates provide you with a structure for your document and offer time-saving features such as automatic insertion of elements.
This two-day course teaches participants the skills necessary to author structured documents using FrameMaker. This course is developed specifically for clients requiring users to work with existing structured templates.
Delivery: Instructor-led, hands-on delivery either online, or onsite.
Duration: Flexible scheduling
Further Learning:
Adobe FrameMaker – Read/Write Rules
Adobe FrameMaker – Structured FrameMaker EDD Development
Structured FrameMaker – EDD Development
Overview:
This three-day course teaches participants how to plan and design a structured template, or element definition document (EDD).
You will create an EDD and add new elements to it. You’ll define container elements, and you will add elements for document components such as footnotes, cross-references, and graphics. You will also implement general rules, set up inclusions/exclusions and automatic insertion of children, add formatting to the EDD, and add prefixes and suffixes to elements.
Delivery: Instructor-led, hands-on delivery either online, at client site. Our custom training meets your needs.
Duration: Flexible scheduling
Prerequisites:
Adobe FrameMaker – Authoring Structured Documents
Further Learning:
XML – Essentials
Extensible Stylesheet Language – XSLT for Publishing
Adobe FrameMaker – Read/Write Rules