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Sandybrook Software's Enhance for Adobe Framemaker® is a powerful
Framemaker add-on that helps you to view, edit, print, and create Framemaker
documents in outline mode, similar to what comes standard with Microsoft
Word. This is especially helpful when you:
- Work with really long documents
- Work with documents imported from Word
- Create indices using another tool, such as IXgen by Frank Stearns
Associates
- Want to ensure your headings are at the right level
- Want to ensure your headings display properly
- Want to ensure parallel structure
Enhance for Framemaker costs $99.95 for a single license, and is available
for purchase and download from:
Sandybrook Software
468 Boom Road
Saco, ME 04072
(207) 294-3230
http://www.sandybrook.com/default.aspx
A trial version is also available.
Once installed, Enhance is added as another item on Framemaker's standard
menu:
To use it, select Enhance View from the Enhance menu.
The first time you view a particular document in Enhance, the program
asks you to define the hierarchy of the heading paragraph tags, especially
if your document uses tags other than the standard ones that come with
Framemaker, such as Heading1, Heading2, and the like:
To move tags from the Body Formats to the Outline Formats, double-click
them.
To make one or more tags have the same level of hierarchy, such as a
Heading 1 and Appendix Heading 1, click Set Secondary Level...
When you have finished, click OK. The outline version of your document
opens:
You will not need to define the hierarchy again the next time you open
the document, provided you save it before closing Framemaker.
You can show or hide the paragraph format names by clicking Show/Hide
Paragraph Names:
You can change the number of levels that are displayed by clicking the
level you want:
You can promote, demote, or re-order headings as needed. For example,
let's demote the second and third headings:
To do this, highlight them with the mouse and click Demote:
The second and third headings are now demoted:
Enhance is especially handy if you have imported a document from Word.
When you do that, it is not uncommon to have leading or trailing spaces
or tabs in your headings:
Having these does not affect the readability of the document in Framemaker,
but it can cause visual misalignments if you use Framemaker to generate
a Table of Contents or an Index. To remove them, simply delete them
from the Enhance screen.
Index and other markers are displayed as a red T where applicable:
If you like, you can generate a document that contains just the headings
you have selected by clicking Generate Outline Document.
The program gives you a variety of display options for the generated
file:
Once created, the generated file looks something like this:
Printing out the generated document is also handy when creating an index
using IXgen, and saves you from having to switch between multiple screens.
After you finish making your changes, click Return to FrameMaker to
incorporate your changes into the document:
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You will need to save the document at this point.
This is only a short list of the program's many features. I hope that
you try it out, and that you find this information helpful!
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