Customer Reviews

FrameMaker 6: Beyond the Basics

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I use "Framemaker 6" eight hours a day, five days a week. I am a power user. This is the book I have been waiting for. It streamlined my everyday procedures and took me step by step uncharted territory I was afraid to use before. Even a power user FM^ can be intimidating. The closest I can come to how I felt after reading the book is it is like having a personal trainer. I accomplish more with less effort, and my documents look great. I am not kidding, FM6 can stress out, I feel better. When I get backed in a corner I use this book first to resolve my problems. I subscribe to the Adobe Tech support. This book has helped me in situations that had Adobe TS stumped. I recommend they buy a copy or even better, include it with the software.

This book works on so many levels. The first time I read the book it was like taking a very informative college level class in FM. I learned a more streamlined approach to template setup that eliminated so many little annoying problems. For the first time I have FM..books that have no error log listings!

I also use it like a reference book. Unlike the user manual you get with FM 6, this one is truly useful. I prefer it for several reasons. It is filled with workable universal examples that are complete, all the steps are there. The format makes it easy to use and find topics.

I am fairly new to the FrameMaker world and was involuntarily charged with the task of putting together a template. Needless to say I was overwhelmed. This book was good timing. It gave me the information I needed to get through some of the more difficult tasks like figuring out what all that header and variable stuff is about. I'm still no expert but I was able to get the stuff in the template working just fine from the teaching in this book.

This book has rounded out my understanding of some of the details of FrameMaker 6 that I was lacking. It's well organized, with comprehensive explanations of the how and why of commands and features before going into examples. One thing I particularly liked was that the author is very enthusiastic and insightful. Overall this book is well worth it and I recommend it to anyone who already has a basic understanding of FrameMaker

It Works! Finally, a book that helped me to clearly understand why my table of contents never worked correctly! That alone is worth its weight in gold.

This book was very helpful when working on a book already created in Framemaker 6 by a third party. I had little to no knowledge of Framemaker 6 and this book answered all of my questions/problems created by the previous designer. The price was fantastic. I paid for expedited shipping but shouldn't have. It took longer than regular mail would have! I would not recommend it for someone wanting to know how to set up a basic framemaker file.This is for trouble shooting already created files and larger books.

JKS

This is not an advanced book, nor is the indexing comprehensive. I would expect that a "power user" would know how to index better. If you attempt to work with multiple dictionaries in FM and then find anything on it within the index - no can do. Writing style is extremely elementary and insulting to a power user (aka other writers). If you can read to the third grade level, you can read this. Much of the information is "fluff," and is not necessary to the teaching. You could cut out 2/3rds and have a useful guide.

Printing problems (standard in Framemaker) are not even discussed. This book should be titled: FrameMaker 6: BARELY the Basics.

After following numerous examples in this book, I end up getting a different result as was shown. I believe Framemaker is operating system specific, therefore something that works in the examples using Mac, doesn't work in Unix. The author should of noted this in each of the examples.