You don't need to be a rocket scientist to use FrameMaker productively, or so says Victoria Thomas, author of Adobe FrameMaker 7 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide. A 12-year veteran of high-tech publishing with a passionate interest in information design, Thomas uses the Visual QuickStart's trademark straightforward approach to teach you how to do everything from using tables to working in books to creating slide presentations in this notoriously challenging program. Even if you've never used FrameMaker before, this task-based guide will have you creating full-featured FrameMaker documents in no time. Step-by step how-tos and plenty of screenshots show you just what to do at every stage of the program. By the time you've completed this handy guide, you just might agree with Thomas that "If you're not using FrameMaker, you're missing out on one of the great joys of desktop and enterprise publishing!"
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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0
Good for a reference, but for actually learning....?:
To be fair, I'm only halfway through this book at the moment, but I can't really say that I've "learned" anything more than I would have just playing around with the program on my own and using the online help. It doesn't seem to me that there was much thought put into a logical progression from one section to another, building certain skills off of previously-learned skills. Just about every section has a "see page xxx" reference on it, and most of those refer to pages much later in the book. So if you are... more info
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