FrameMaker 6: Beyond the Basics

Why Build a Book

The benefits of book building in FrameMaker all add up to making some tasks in the document production process an easier and more streamlined operation for you to perform. While you’ll always work with document files individually to include content, apply formatting to paragraphs and customize other elements, book building provides the means to work with a collection of document files as one unit and implement an imposing array of features.

While you work with a FrameMaker book file, here are a few tasks that you can use to your advantage:

• Open, close, save, and organize files from a central location

• Apply various commands or settings to one or more files

• Page through the entire book

• Produce the table of contents or another list ...