Adobe FrameMaker
(PDFM 001)
Overview of the main features of Adobe FrameMaker as a tool for technical communicators. Topics include: creating master and body pages; creating reuseable templates, character and paragraph definitions; page layout; inserting graphics; advanced editing features; creating tables; creating table of contents; conditional text; and converting FrameMaker files to pdf.
Note: Minimum System requirements for this course
Intel Pentium 4 processor, MS Windows XP or Windows Vista, min 512MB RAM, 2GB free hard disk space, 1024x768 monitor resolution with 16-bit or greater video card (256 colours).
Software: Adobe FrameMaker 9 - 30-day trial version can be used for this course - ONLY available for PCs
Note - Manual required for this course: "Adobe FrameMaker 9 Classroom in a Book". Adobe Creative Team. Adobe Press. 2009. Print ISBN-10: 0321647505; Print ISBN-13: 978-0321647504, 288 pages.
This book is available in a digital format from www.lulu.com. (ISBN-13: 978-0321670984).
If you prefer, manuals are available in a print edition - from the Vancouver Island University Bookstore, Amazon.ca, Amazon.com, or your local bookseller.
PDFM 001
Julie Clarke
S12W01 - 6 weeks: Feb. 28 - Apr. 8, 2012
$349 CAD ($435 CAD for International Students)*
*Prices subject to change without notice.
Instructor Bio
Julie Clarke has an extensive
background in computers and computer software,
having spent a large part of her working
career programming, developing, and maintaining
computer software and hardware of all types.
Currently responsible for Continuing Education
co-ordination for Vancouver Island University's Powell River
Campus, she has also taken on responsibility
for online courses for several of the university's campuses. With a Masters in Business from
the University of Toronto, she is in touch
with both the day-to-day functioning of a
wide variety of computer software as well
as the large picture of how software can
be an invaluable tool in Technical Writing
applications. Julie is keen to share her
knowledge of computers and software!