FrameMaker 5.5.6 for Dummies [With CDROM]

by Sarah O'Keefe

FrameMaker is a long-document publishing tool. This guide to FrameMaker 5.5.6 offers information on features for producing effective long documents, including text editing and formatting, graphics, page design and creating templates. The CD-ROM contains templates, plug-ins and examples.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764506374
• ISBN13: 9780764506376
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Excellent!

I've read some of the previous reviews and couldn't believe that they were not 5's across the board. Several years ago, I had to learn Framemaker very quickly. This book made that possible. Since that time, I've used Framemaker on a day-to-day basis and I still consider _FM_5.5.6_for_Dummies_ to be a very good book. (I use FM 6.)

An example of how to explain things usefully

I have used the few manuals that exist for FrameMaker, and this one is the only one I have found really usefull. My work advanced rapidelly with it.

Finally!

I am a self-taught FM user and am now training others in the office. I've only read through page 39 of the book and I am AMAZED at the number of new things I've picked up already!When is the advanced version coming out!

It's About Time

It's embarrassing to be overjoyed about the publication of a software book, especially one with the word "dummies" on the cover. But until now, FrameMaker users have had no good reference text at all. We've been struggling to decipher Adobe's online help files, and we've been solving each other's problems through online mailing lists and local FrameMaker Users Network meetings. It's ridiculous that a tool as widely used as Frame has had no comprehensive reference. Every Frame user should nab a copy of FrameMaker for Dummies before it sells out.If you're a beginning Framer, be certain to start with pages 7 - 10, which explain why you want to fiddle with this complicated & powerful tool in the first place. Frame has a long learning curve, but I think mine would have been much shorter if I'd had this book. And if you feel like a real dummy because you don't understand everything that Frame can do, don't worry - no one needs or understands it all. Except, evidently, for O'Keefe, but not all of us aspire to that level of geek wisdom.As an experienced Framer I've found the answers to four questions so far by using the index, and the book saved me at least 2 hours on one problem alone (which paid for the book right there, with cash left over for therapy). "Tip" icons and question sidebars hold the promise of knowledge I don't even know to look for. The appendices have great information, especially Appendix B: Online Resources.Truthfully, I'd probably be thrilled to get any book on Frame. I'm especially glad this one is easily referenced, well written, and useful.