Oct, 2010 how to apply conditional text to your framemaker documents. Framemaker, which is at the core of the adobe technical communication suite, has long been the gold standard for writing, illustrating, and laying out technical documentation in print. He also covers editing documents, working with tables, using footnotes and crossreferences, generating books and indexes, and using conditional text and hyperlinks. Framemaker vs indesign 04 feature framemaker indesign book management books control the consistency of all lists, tocs, and documents.
Today, adobe framemaker is still a widely used publication tool for technical writers, although no version has been released for the mac os x operating system, limiting use of the product. The instructor text condition is defined to display in orange. Framemaker templates and formatting tech comm tools. Create templates to change conditional tags settings. How to apply conditional text to your framemaker document. All modifications of the commands via fm cfg file, g, script or plugin are shown. You can specify conditional tags in framemaker at the book level or at an individual chapter level. Click the showhide button in the conditional text dialog box to display the showhide conditional text dialog box. By assigning conditional tags, you can turn these conditions on and off at will. Use the conditional tags pod to work with conditional text in your documents. Adobe framemaker 10 mif reference color map the optional color map defines colors used for the imported graphic. Adobe systems acquired the product and returned the focus to the professional market. I inherited a book from a previous writer that has two conditional tags defined.
If you have defined conditional indicators such as style, color, or background color, the text. You can use any of the following combinations of size and color of icons. Ff is the maximum intensity and 00 is the minimum none. Creating your first document starting framemaker 7 welcome. Reference pages 2 and 5 are used for html and xml conversions. With framemaker 2015 release, conditions now can be applied beyond content within files.
Conditional build tags logic hi all, working on rh x5 generating webhelp. With conditional text, we can add all of the text into a single file, assign condition tags, and then hide and show the various languages. So we have added small colored icons to the color dropdowns in dialogs like the paragraph, character, and table designer as well as the add conditional tags dialog. After applying conditional tags to the text in a document, you use the. Framemaker 2017 essential training linkedin learning, ex.
In the new dialog box, click explore standard templates. For example, if an image applies only to the print output of a document, apply the printonly tag. Deleting any text frame along with grouped objects and then trying to undo the delete operation causes framemaker to crash. This works perfectly in all chapters of the book except one, and yet the condition definitions are identical in all chaptersfiles. No way to edit and delete conditional text tags wholesale across all the chapters of a book. Creating conditional text documents and preparing content for output to print or. Leverage existing conditional tags and expressions to enable end users to dynamically filter content in the final html5 output, thereby delivering. Updated jan 20, 2018 i wrote this post in response to issues i encountered in getting pdf output from framemaker 12 while researching the problem, i found a number of potential solutions, so i decided to write this as a reference for the next time a setting goes awry.
Two ways to work with conditional text tags in robohelp. When you apply conditional tags to a structured document, the processing instructions to handle the tags are defined in the structured application. How to display conditional text in framemaker by using a. To change the color, click on the edit icon the second from the left at the top, which looks like a pen. The decision to cancel framemaker caused considerable friction between. Hello everybody, i have started working with framemaker lately and am elaborating a qaprocedure for one of my clients. The books homepage helps you explore earths biggest bookstore without ever leaving the comfort of your couch. Then i created an interactive pdf from framemaker that included both the print materials and images from the document, and interactive elearning. Rh will automatically assign a default color for your new tag. If fm had such a feature, every time you inherited the kind of mess that ive described above, all you had to do is. Delivered at your offices, or any other location of your choice. Hiding the parent element does not hide the child elements tagged with a different condition setting. Learn to set up your work area and learn about framemakers work area.
I apologize for responding in terms of the english user interface. Note that when you apply conditional tags to text, it is. Create conditional text in framemaker by creating and applying conditional tags. When framemaker launches, it queries the default printer and gathers its printing information from that printers ppd postscript printer description file. Here youll find current best sellers in books, new releases in books, deals in books, kindle ebooks, audible audiobooks, and so much more. Framemaker sometimes freezes while editing or doubleclicking a conditional tag in the conditional tags pod. May, 2014 conditional text tags is at the heart of single sourcing integration between adobe robohelp rh and adobe framemaker fm, especially if you are using fm in the unstructured mode. If you do the work and dont feel completely prepared to create and manage your framemaker template, i will work with you to get you up to speed or refund your course fee, at your discretion. Conditional text in framemaker allows you to apply conditions to text.
Framemaker 11 commands this list has been generated by a framescript from itl. Framemaker for single sourcing spectrum writings blog. Welcome voiceover okay, once youve created your conditional text tag, its time to apply those tags to content in your framemaker document. The new document window should appear similar to the following. Disable these features to determine if they are at the root of the problem. The conditional tags pod does not have a column for color.
Changing font color in framemaker software applications. Hello framers, this blog post is to share a few utilities written by the engineers of the framemaker team. This gives author the power to perform various actions like element insertion, applying conditional tags, applying paragraph tags, variable insertion etc. Text for product a is color coded in green, and text for product b is color coded in corporate blue. The new conditional tags pod makes it easier for you to create and manage conditional text settings by providing an. For example, if you apply the tag to a paragraph of text and text color for the tag is. Oct 28, 2011 excerpt from the autumn 2009 issue of communicator magazine text insets and conditional text for framemaker users seeking single sourcing on a shoestring, tammy van boening of spectrum writing offers a solution based on these features. I also use framemakers conditional text feature to keep track of content that is specific to one product or the other. For example, if you start a framemaker session with a blackandwhite that is, grayscale printer set as the default printer, framemaker restricts itself to print documents without color.
Publish the right content, in the right formats, for the right audience. Color and commercial printing when you create a multi color publication, you want the colors in the final printed piece to match your expec tations as closely as possible. Conditional build tags not working at content level. Move into the show listbox the condition that you want to make active. Feature framemaker indesign book management books control the consistency of all lists, tocs and documents. Click ok to list the new tag in the conditional build tags list box which rh8 calls a pod. David rivers explains how to add and format text, customize page layouts to suit your needs, and work with colors, character formats, and graphics. The command sequence in this report corresponds to their. Singlesource publishing framemaker had early support for conditional text, which could show and hide some content, creating different versions of a document or manual from one set of source files. Adobe framemaker 2015 release is a complete solution for bidirectional. Adobe framemaker 11 classroom in a book, first edition. Framemaker graphic issues chautauqua 2007 framemaker. This makes identifying and selecting the color of your choice much more easy.
As my translation shall be proofread by an engineer, i have thought of making changes visible by using a different font color as these framemaker change bars only indicate where changes have been made, but not what has been changed. For instance, early versions of framemaker used conditional text control to create a unix and windows version of framemaker documentation. If you have defined conditional indicators such as style, color, or background color, the text on which the tags is applied is conditionally formatted based on the indicators. Conditional text and auto numbering it sounds like when you applied the condition you applied it to the text but forgot to include the endofparagraph mark of the paragraph. I have got one project which have contents for different version i.
Showing or hiding conditional text as per condition 374. Troubleshooting books framemaker 7 books and generated files. This document can contain conditional tags and conditional graphics for each type of output. It includes text editing and formatting, graphics, page design and layout, and more. Well work with tables to organize information and well delve into the use of referencing with the use of footnotes and cross references. It consists of 256 bytes of red, followed by 256 bytes of green, followed by 256 bytes of blue.
I need some logic help or some help on developing different manuals for different users for the same system, will explain below. Framemaker working with content preface xxi introduction xxii acknowledgments xxii ways to connect xxiii mistakes were made xxiii new features by version xxiii part i, getting started with framemaker chapter 1. Apply condition tags to text linkedin learning, formerly. Also, specify the conditional tag at book level without the need to apply conditions or expressions to individual chapters. That is, a paragraph tag helps you define the formatting properties font name, size, color, and so on for the. As you can see here, in module one, the piano bench,the very first sentence indicatesthat its made out of black walnut. Framemaker strengths advantages of creating content with framemaker 2 uses for framemaker 5 chapter 2. Nov 22, 2017 paragraph formats or paragraph tags in adobe framemaker are what let you spice up those otherwise boring and dull documents.
Conditional text at book level conditional text pod conditional tag expressions with nested parentheses. Learn how to set up a framemaker file for conditional text by creating condition tags to be used in the document, choose formatting for those tags, and delete tags that wont be used. By applying conditions directly to books and all their components, you can expand the power of publishing. For this tutorial, you use one of framemaker s sample documents. Text insets in framemaker offer a way to singlesource content by sharing chunks of text across multiple files and books. Deleting conditional tags at book level crashes fm. So with our conditional tags pod open here,we can go to the us condition, click the state box,and now with that selected, we can goto the apply button and thats the statethat will be applied to our selected text. Feature framemaker indesign book management books control the consistency of all lists, tocs, and documents. Framemaker 2017 release adobe framemaker 2015 release adobe framemaker 12 adobe framemaker 11 adobe framemaker 10 adobe framemaker 9 dita specialization support smart paste wizard to create structured applications content filtering using attributes comparing structured documents attribute editor xml tags. Users proceed with selfpaced lessons in framemaker, using images and files from the cdrom. For details, see the specifying conditional text output section of the framemaker structure application developersreference. Updating text inset source removes condition tags from target paragraph. After you have created conditional tags, you apply these tags to conditionalize text in your document.
Oct 17, 2012 actually i like the idea of the highlights, and so i came to conditional tags. From this pod, you can add, modify, delete, apply, or remove conditional tags in a document. Delivered live online via webex and guaranteed to run. Though a variation of the same exists in previous versions of framemaker, but the new experience is much better. Two ways to work with conditional text tags in robohelp and. Welcome to framemaker creating and publishing content. You may wish to include a book template to demonstrate the setup of a book. Well spend time learning how the use of color and graphics can add visual interest.
A shortcoming of conditional text, however, is the handling of the numbers in the table titles. Jun 02, 2015 with framemaker 2015 release, conditions now can be applied beyond content within files. Framemaker vs indesign for technical documentation. Framemaker specializes in longdocument formatting and automates mundane but. Framemaker provides the following six reference pages. Conditions now can be applied beyond content within files. To set all conditionally tagged paragraphs to be shown in the chapters within a framemaker book file. If there is a condition that is applicable to all chapters in a book, then you can easily apply that condition to all chapters with a single click. Examine similarities and differences between content related hardware, but different models product has different functionality set for various customers new release version. Findchange cross reference formats conditional tags variables. Inconsistent color settingsthe file has color definitions or color. When printing pdf from fm source files, you turn on the print tag and turn off the online tag. As conditional tags are in each documents condition catalog only, there is no direct operation at the book level to remove a tag from all documents in the book same as for most other catalog items, paratags, character tags, colours, etc.
Notice, though, that the tag is shown in the selected color. Well also learn about how you can generate books with framemaker and make use of indexing, conditional text, and. Introduction to adobe framemaker training adobe courses. To help you evaluate our training, we have made some of the tutorials for adobe framemaker 5. Framemaker 2019 and indesign cc comparison for technical. By applying conditions directly to books and all their components, you can expand the power of publishing and save time. Framemaker, which is at the core of the adobe technical communication suite. If youd like to assign your own preferred color to the new tag, click the blue tag icon and select a color from the popup color list. Find out how to easily convert paragraph and character tags in framemaker 6, apply character tags to styled text, and learn a foolproof method of applying one paragraph designer property to many paragraph tags with just a couple of clicks. For those of us who work on multiple versions of a file, its awesome. Framemaker vs indesign for technical documentation comparison. Adobe framemaker 2015 release is a complete solution for bidirectional technical content.
Conditional text at the book level enhanced eliminate the tedium of applying conditions or expressions to individual chapters in books by applying them to the entire book directly while updating the book in the same operation. Conditional tag expressions with nested parentheses. Early releases of framemaker had no color support, as 95% of. Adobe framemaker 11 classroom in a book, first edition book. Jan 08, 20 how to insert a watermark and change a background color in adobe framemaker 11 january 8, 20 how to create customized bullet for a bulleted paragraph tag in adobe framemaker january 7, 20 how to create a customized work space in adobe framemaker 11 january 6, 20. This indispensable guide covers the framemaker features that both technical writers and business people need to produce powerful and effective long documents.
Voiceover okay, once youve createdyour conditional text tag,its time to apply those tags to contentin your framemaker document. Fwiw, bulk deleting conditional tags at the book level doesnt work in earlier versions either. Use conditional tag formatting rules to easily identify conditional content in your document. If you think this course could be better in any way, please let me know at any time so i can address your concerns. Documents in books can be grouped and excluded from output.
Now just click anywhere in the paragraph,youll see that formatting wechose for the us condition which isblue in color with the overline. When you work with books, you may encounter problems or errors you need to. How to create and apply conditional tags in robohelp 8. In the book window, highlight problematic chapter or chapters and choose view showhide conditional text. Framemaker is an easy but powerful tool for creating and publishing xml content including dita duration. Understand what conditional text is and work with conditional tags in framemaker. With new selection from adobe framemaker 9 classroom in a book book. If you want to have showhide capabilities on the entire paragraph including its number then you have to conditionalise the entire paragraph, including its endof. The latest version now provides conditional index entries, which are great for. Sometimes you author different types of content for different output formats using the same framemaker document. Reference page 1 is used to store frequently used graphics. Adobe framemaker for more efficient xmldita authoring. In this adobe framemaker training class, students will learn to create, manage, and format documents and create books using framemaker.
Click set to turn the color of all previously conditioned set of texts to your selected color. Framemaker vs indesign 04 feature framemaker indesign book management books control the consistency of all lists, tocs and documents. To top it off, i showed the audience how to create conditional build tags in framemaker that allowed me to single source two versions of the document. If each tag has different conditional indicators, framemaker attempts to combine the.
Documents in books can be reordered but not grouped or excluded from output. Troubleshoot pdf creation problems in framemaker 8. Framemaker enables you to build documents and books from. Welcome instructor once youve created your conditional tags as we did in the previous movie, its time to apply those tags either to existing text or text were going to add to our document.
But again, for this example,lets say thats only for the us version. Framemaker standard tag names for blank documents and other. Just set up a set of conditional tags for each year and define a highlighting background color. He also covers editing documents, working with tables, using footnotes and crossreferences, generating books and. Compare versions of adobe framemaker xml authoring adobe framemaker 2017 release adobe framemaker 2015 release adobe framemaker 12 adobe. How to insert a watermark and change a background color in.
Leverage existing conditional tags and expressions to enable end users to dynamically filter content in the. All the chapters and lesson contents of adobe framemaker 5. We will also cover electronic publishing from a framemaker document or book. Developed and tested by the training experts at adobe, readers come away with a thorough understanding of framemakers tools and features. You can add these elements to existing reference pages, or create your own reference pages to store these elements.
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