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Title: Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team, Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 0-321-13168-1 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 14 August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 1.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Classroom in a Book DISASTER!
Comment: A hassle to download; a hassle to install; supplemental downloads a hassle too; and then the exercises don't work! I expect much more from Adobe.
BTW - I've been using computers since 1980 and doing it for a living since the early 90's.
A waste of time and effort. I want my money back!
Rating: 1
Summary: This book and its CD fail badly
Comment: For someone trying to learn Framemaker, this book fails from the very start. The first format instruction (Heading 1) does not work (it is inserted into the body, not into the margin). The text supposed to be in colour is black. The character catalog illustrated is not what appears, actually omitting the one that the text says should be inserted. All this happens by page 28. (I was forced by the system to give this book 1 star, but it deserves none.)
Rating: 3
Summary: Shame on you Adobe!
Comment: As an experienced user of FrameMaker I was disappointed both in the lack of truly informative information about FrameMaker 7's new structured document features, as well as the obviousness of the extent to which the book and the corresponding lessons had not been proofread or usability-tested.
That's not to say that Classroom in a Book ("CIAB") for FrameMaker 7 is entirely useless: If you don't know anything about the basic features of FrameMaker such as formatting pages, creating paragraph and character styles, setting up TOCs and Indexes, using Conditional Text, and so on, then the version 7 CIAB retains that useful and well prepared content from the earlier versions 5.5 and 6 CIABs. (This also means that you may be able to learn basic FrameMaker without buying the version 7 CIAB, since the essential changes between the basic operation of version 5.5 and versions 6 or 7 are in the operation of the FrameMaker book window).
In the end it's obvious, even saddening, that Adobe couldn't do better than this feeble and poorly edited effort for version 7 of FrameMaker, particularly the product's new structured documents features. Shame on you Adobe -- show some pride!
In the time since I first posted this review Adobe has evidently announced that it will be re-releasing an updated version of this book. Check [the Adobe Web Site], especially the FrameMaker forum on the Adobe Web site for more details.
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Title: FrameMaker(R) 7: The Complete Reference by Sarah S. O'Keefe, Sheila A. Loring ISBN: 0072223618 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 11 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: FrameMaker 7 for Macintosh and Windows: Visual QuickStart Guide by Victoria Thomas ISBN: 0321159470 Publisher: Peachpit Press Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.99 |
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Title:Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 ASIN: B00006661W Publisher: Adobe List Price(USD): $889.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $859.99 |
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Title: The Handbook of Technical Writing, Seventh Edition by Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, Walter E. Oliu ISBN: 0312309236 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $38.95 |
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Title: Adobe InDesign 2.0 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Creative Team ISBN: 0201787202 Publisher: Adobe Press Pub. Date: 03 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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