RE: Need a good introductory tutorial for FrameMaker 12
As other have stated, FrameMaker and PageMaker have except for the Maker part of their name. However, I can hear poor ol' PageMaker now... I'm not dead yet g Believe it or not, Adobe still sells it. They try to get you to switch to InDesign, but it is still available on the store for $500 US. Regarding tutorials... Video: TV.Adobe.com (free); You can watch anything from 9 up to get the basics. Lynda.com (you can get one week free); Lessons are on Frame 10, but basics are still the same. (This is not a complete list.) On-line or on-site training by Adobe Certified Instructors: http://training.adobe.com/training/partner-finder.html#p=1product=adobe-fr ame-makertype=aci This link focuses on the USA, but you can change it if necessary. David Creamer IDEAS Training http://www.ideastraining.com Adobe Authorized Instructor Certified Expert since 1995 Authorized QuarkXPress Instructor and Certified Expert since 1988 ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Need a good introductory tutorial for FrameMaker 12
Hi David, Lynda.com has a FrameMaker 11 course, but since it just covers the basics anyway, it would be appropriate for FrameMaker 12. It will cost you $25 per month, but since you have a 30 day trial this will be just right. There are tons of great course on there that you will have access to for the monthly fee. No formal connection to them, just a satisfied customer. Rick Rick Quatro Carmen Publishing Inc. 585-366-4017 r...@frameexpert.com From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Downing Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 12:48 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Need a good introductory tutorial for FrameMaker 12 I just downloaded the 30 trial version of FrameMaker 12. I have never used FrameMaker at all (although I have used its predecessor, PageMaker). I need to find a good tutorial that will get me started with FrameMaker 12, and that begins by assuming total ignorance of the product. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Need a good introductory tutorial for FrameMaker 12
Here are some tutorials: http://www.prismnet.com/~tcm/etwr2472/guides/frame9/ http://wiki.scriptorium.com/tiki-index.php http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=framemaker%20tutorialsm=3 http://www.lynda.com/FrameMaker-training-tutorials/1059-0.html Lynda.com costs $25 a month for basic access. The others are free. They are all for older versions of FrameMaker, but the GUI hasn't changed much since version 9, so anything from 9 and above should be fine. Shmuel Wolfson Technical Writer 052-763-7133 On 22-Jan-14 7:47 PM, David Downing wrote: I just downloaded the 30 trial version of FrameMaker 12. I have never used FrameMaker at all (although I have used its predecessor, PageMaker). I need to find a good tutorial that will get me started with FrameMaker 12, and that begins by assuming total ignorance of the product. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as shmue...@gmail.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/shmuelw1%40gmail.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Need a good introductory tutorial for FrameMaker 12
Pick up a copy of Matt Sullivan's bible of FM - Publishing Fundamentals of FM11 From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of David Downing Sent: January-22-14 12:48 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Need a good introductory tutorial for FrameMaker 12 I just downloaded the 30 trial version of FrameMaker 12. I have never used FrameMaker at all (although I have used its predecessor, PageMaker). I need to find a good tutorial that will get me started with FrameMaker 12, and that begins by assuming total ignorance of the product. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Need a good introductory tutorial for FrameMaker 12
David, just be sure you do not compare FrameMaker to PageMaker. Two different worlds, one long gone and replaced by InDesign. FrameMaker is more like a very able text processor with focus on text content, rather than layout of individual pages. Be sure you cover master pages, format tags and catalogs. Enjoy, Urszula Witherell www.jetsetcom.net | www.trainingonsite.com 301.524.3165 Sent from iPad On Jan 22, 2014, at 12:47 PM, David Downing david.h.down...@gmail.com wrote: I just downloaded the 30 trial version of FrameMaker 12. I have never used FrameMaker at all (although I have used its predecessor, PageMaker). I need to find a good tutorial that will get me started with FrameMaker 12, and that begins by assuming total ignorance of the product. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as urszulawither...@jetsetcom.net. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/urszulawitherell%40jetsetcom.net Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Need a good introductory tutorial for FrameMaker 12
Total ignorance is probably overstating it, but one fundamental fact you have missed is that PageMaker and FrameMaker do *not* have a common ancestry. What they have in common (besides the coincidental similarity in their names) is that they were both acquired as mature products by Adobe. PageMaker was originally developed by Aldus Corporation with the original Macintosh version released in 1985 and a version for Windows 1.0 two years later. The company and its products were acquired by Adobe in 1994, and the product was eventually discontinued in 2004. FrameMaker, on the other hand, was originally developed by an astrophysics grad student at Columbia. An entrepreneur saw a demo version running on a Sun workstation and formed a company, Frame Technology, to commercialize it circa 1985. Originally it ran only on SunOS, but it was also ported to other flavors of UNIX in its early years. In 1990 a Mac version appeared, and a Windows version followed two years later. The lower-cost Mac and Windows versions killed the sales of the much more expensive UNIX version and the company's sales and profit steadily slid toward zero before Adobe purchased them in 1995. Also, the two products do not (or rather, *did* not since PageMaker is a dead issue) the same thing. PageMaker was intended for things like brochures, newsletters, and magazines, where each page is likely to have a different layout. FrameMaker is intended for long documents (e.g. books) with consistent, repetitive page layouts. It can do page-by-page layouts, but not very flexibly and not very efficiently because that's not what it was designed for. -Fred Ridder From: urszulawither...@jetsetcom.net Subject: Re: Need a good introductory tutorial for FrameMaker 12 Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:24:16 -0500 To: david.h.down...@gmail.com CC: framers@lists.frameusers.com David, just be sure you do not compare FrameMaker to PageMaker. Two different worlds, one long gone and replaced by InDesign. FrameMaker is more like a very able text processor with focus on text content, rather than layout of individual pages. Be sure you cover master pages, format tags and catalogs. Enjoy, Urszula Witherell www.jetsetcom.net | www.trainingonsite.com 301.524.3165 Sent from iPad On Jan 22, 2014, at 12:47 PM, David Downing david.h.down...@gmail.com wrote: I just downloaded the 30 trial version of FrameMaker 12. I have never used FrameMaker at all (although I have used its predecessor, PageMaker). I need to find a good tutorial that will get me started with FrameMaker 12, and that begins by assuming total ignorance of the product. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks. ___ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
