FrameMaker 5.5.6 for Dummies | 
 enlarge | Author: Sarah S. O'keefe
Creator: John Warnock
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc (Computers)
Category: Book
Buy New: $47.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 420686
Media: Paperback
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 7.3 x 1
ISBN: 0764506374
Dewey Decimal Number: 686.225445369
UPC: 785555021655
EAN: 9780764506376
ASIN: 0764506374
Publication Date: October 1999
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Product Description
FrameMaker can be intimidating -- but not with FrameMaker 5.5.6 For Dummies! Find out how to create technical manuals, research reports, and other long or complex documents -- without spending a fortune on training. Discover how to Build books of any length Create templates to simplify layout Use indexing tools Output to paper, XML, HTML, or PDF Save time by using autonumbering Create and maintain multiple document versions FrameMaker 5.5.6 For Dummies comes complete with a bonus CD-ROM containing a tryout version of FrameMaker 5.5.6 for Windows and Macintosh, a QuicKeys demo (Windows/Macintosh), Filtrix and IXGen 5.6 demos (Windows), and trial versions of FrameScript and WebWorks Publisher (Windows). Dr. John Warnock, CEO of Adobe Systems, Inc., calls FrameMaker 5.5.6 For Dummies "an information-packed book that will make FrameMaker work for you." Tap into the power of FrameMaker with FrameMaker 5.5.6 For Dummies.
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 Excellent! October 11, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.)
 horrid October 24, 2002
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
I've tried, over and over, to make this book work. But I can't. I'm a beginner and this book makes absolutely no sense, for the most part. If you have no experience with FrameMaker, do not go near this book. O'Keefe seems to have written this thing without much worry about detail or really taking you throug the process of creating documents. This book is a mess and I've been left to look for online tutorials.
 not so clear October 7, 2002
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book could use some clarity. There's a lot of instruction on how to do a lot of things, but there's never a reason for why some processes are needed. For a beginner, this book isn't as easy as it should be. RoboHELP for Dummies was a phenominal book. This book hardly compares. The author, a technical writer, doesn't break down the why's and I'm left frustrated and starting over. It's too bad there's no real competition for a book like this. I really wish there was a more user friendly FrameMaker tutorial.
Framemaker for Dummies by Dummies January 24, 2001
11 out of 20 found this review helpful
I own over 500 computer books and this is the first I've felt compelled to review, and now only because this book is truly awful. Like many computer people, when I buy a book, I usually give it a quick reading and then look up troublesome items in the index as I work with the program. After a quick reading of FFD I knew little more than when I started, because it's very chaotic, but it wasn't until I started trying to use the index that I really grew to hate this book. FrameMaker is a program for making books, but there is no entry in this book for captions, no entry for crop marks, no entry for color profiles, ICM or Pantone. These are standard words in the publishing biz but they don't even rate an index entry, let alone decent treatment. There isn't even any information on how to make FM respect your font selection. You will, however, find an index entry for Easter Eggs, and index entries for half the people who have written dummies books... Is there anything useful in this book? Sure. You can't write 360 pages about anything without saying something useful, but good luck in finding it.
An example of how to explain things usefully November 23, 2000
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
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