by Barb Binder I love almost everything about Adobe InDesign, but if you forced me to focus on the one feature I couldn’t live without, it would have to be paragraph styles. One can design beautiful documents in InDesign without them, but why would you? There are three reasons why you should consider using styles on […]
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by David R. Mankin By now, many of you have discovered the most amazing new feature of Acrobat 9 Professional – the PDF Portfolio. The PDF Portfolio is a unique and exciting type of file that allows you to share and distribute ANY type of file – not just PDFs. These files are wrapped up in a […]
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by Barb Binder What do religion, politics and hyphenation have in common? These are emotional subjects for most of my students, and I try to keep discussion on all three of them out of the classroom. If you are thinking that hyphenation couldn’t possibly fall into that category, then you probably haven’t spent much time teaching […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: July 14, 2021 In FrameMaker, bullets are defined in the Numbering Properties of the Paragraph Designer. If you are willing to use a plain, round bullet • you are in luck! It’s the very first option shown: Just select the bullet symbol and the tab character as […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated Mar 21, 2022 FrameMaker offers us two ways to restart numbered lists in our documents: a manual technique and an automatic option. Restarting a List Manually Let’s start by examining the manual option, which is built into the Paragraph Catalog of all new FrameMaker documents. If you […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Aug 31, 2020 For those of you transitioning to FrameMaker from Microsoft Word, the empty pages left at the end of a document can be bothersome. The first rule to learn is that the single fastest way to delete empty pages is to save your document. When […]
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By Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Jul 28, 2023 Ever wondered how to edit the rules listed in Table Designer? When you are designing a new table format, or refining an existing one, you need to make decisions about how the ruling lines should look in your tables. When you go to […]
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by Barb Binder Updated for FrameMaker 2015 on May 3, 2016 FrameMaker has had a view-only option for as long as I can remember. Long before most of us began using Acrobat for view-only file distribution, a product called FrameViewer was available to address that need for early FrameMaker users. The idea was that you could […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Jan 21, 2021 In a previous post, Adobe FrameMaker: What are Reference Pages?, I talked a bit about the most basic reference page, called Reference. In a new default document, when you chose View > Reference Pages, you land on a page that looks like the one below, and […]
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by Barb Binder, Adobe Certified Instructor on FrameMaker Updated: Jan 21, 2021 FrameMaker offers three types of pages: body pages, master pages and reference pages. Body pages are where you will do most of your work. This is where you flow your text and place pictures. The content on the body pages will change from page […]
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