FrameMaker 2015 has introduced a number of significant enhancements and new tools specific to creating and handling DITA or XML projects. In this webinar session, product evangelist, Maxwell Hoffmann, walks you through a number of new tools and workflows that will save you countless hours and make your life easier when it comes to XML. You may view the engaging (and fun) process for working with Word files by clicking on the TITLE below:
You can get the recording of this webinar here:
Real XML/DITA authoring just got better with FrameMaker 2015
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Minute | Description |
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07:00 |
Diagram of major improvements to QET (Quick Element Toolkit) |
08:30 |
How to select new OPTIONAL Simplified XML View |
11:30 |
LIVE DEMO: view of traditional structured interface in FrameMaker out-of-box if you haven’t made any choices for simplified editing |
13:30 |
Seeing all XML CODE only with the “Code View” in FrameMaker 2015 |
14:00 |
Tooltip over insertion point will show ancestor hierachy |
14:30 |
View of the “traditional” Author View; content is somewhat simplified, no page headers/footers … you concentrate on content, not formatting. AUTHOR VIEW has been tremendously improved with optional SIMPLIFIED XML |
15:00 |
How to insert elements with keyboard shortcut and “smart insert” which displays only legal elements within pop-up, floating menu
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17:30 |
IMPROVEMENT TO STRUCTURE VIEW: current element node is darkened to assist you in locating your current structure. |
18:00 |
DEMO of how to turn on SIMPLIFIED XML VIEW, … you can also choose to have an ALERT that will offer to insert your ELEMENT at the next valid insertion point |
19:00 |
We reload FrameMaker and RESTORE LAST SESSION, which remembers which XML files were open and WHERE THE INSERTION POINT WAS |
19:30 |
FIRST LOOK of the new SIMPLE XML AUTHOR VIEW …
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20:30 |
You have a “fill-in-form” view … with a red asterisk indicating where you have mandatory changes. |
22:00 |
We have swiftly created a list within a list …
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24:45 |
Working with tables in Author View and also Page View
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25:00 |
We attempt to create a SECTION ELEMENT within a table row … pop-up prompt offers to put the SECTION in the next valid location … which it does. we achieve a new SECTION after the table TAKE-AWAY: we accomplished all of this WITHOUT VIEWING A STRUCTURE TREE of CODES |
29:00 |
REVIEW of new enhancements to the STRUCTURE VIEW |
38:00 |
How to drag an ELEMENT and drop it over a COLLAPSED ELEMENT: FrameMaker will EXPAND the collapsed element so you can detect the valid insertion point while you are dragging the element |
45:00 |
MathML improvements |
48:00 |
DITA 1.3 SUPPORT enhancements … which areas we suppport |
51:00 |
Useful RESOURCES for FrameMaker and XML |