Need a good introductory tutorial for FrameMaker 12

2014-01-23 Thread David Downing
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

Can't get to either the Paragraph Designer or Character Designer

2014-01-27 Thread David Downing
I was humming along very nicely with one of those tutorials until I hit a major snag. I was supposd to do something with the paragraph designer, and neither the tutorial nor the FM 12 User Guide was very clear on how to get to it. I searched on my own, and found the menu option Format - Paragraph

Why is the Edit Frame button grayed out

2014-01-29 Thread David Downing
Okay, I have something else that isn't working as advertised. I just went through a lesson that involved the use of the Anchor frame option. I had trouble getting it to display on the screen as well, but I figured that out this time. I tried to change the position of the frame to Run into

Re: RECORDING of What's new in FrameMaker 12 webinar from Jan 28 with time chart

2014-02-03 Thread David Downing
This might be helpful to me, since I'm trying to learn my way around FM. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Maxwell Hoffmann mhoff...@adobe.comwrote: Yesterday we had huge turnout at our first FrameMaker 12 webinar, which covered many significant new features. The session is 2 hours and 15

Conditional text - looks like there are some big differences between 9 and 12

2014-02-03 Thread David Downing
That tutorial for FarmeMaker 9 has been working pretty well for me until now, because there appear to be some big differences in the interface for conditional text tags. The tutorial for FM9 says to click the Apply button at the top of the list of tags and select the in radio button -- but neither