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Anonymous
September 28, 2012
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Creating flowcharts in FrameMaker 11

  • September 28, 2012
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Where are the tools to create flowcharts in FrameMaker11?  I have just upgraded, and for the life of me, I cannot find the flowcharting tools. 

Ravinder

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Michael314
Michael314
Inspiring
October 2, 2012

Ravinder,

Just noticed this thread.

I recommend using Visio for flowcharts and any technical drawings. The Framemaker drawing tools (at least what I have in Frame 7.2) are clunky, tedious to use, and of limited versatility. I've been using Visio since 1995 and it's a superior tool.

In Visio, you drag predefined shapes (there are libraries of hundreds of shapes) onto a drawing space and can quickly link them into a flowchart. For each shape you can quickly define its line thickness, line color, line type, fill color or pattern, text, and text attributes. You can even save customized shapes for reuse. Draw the flowchart to scale for your page width and insert it at 100%.

I would say a flowchart would take 5-10 times longer in Frame than in Visio.

You can be more productive -- use the right tool. (See sample below)

Yours,

Michael F

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Anonymous
October 2, 2012

Thank you Arnis, Micheal. 

I have used Viso extensively  for creating flowcharts etc, and agree it is a great tool.  However I wanted to try FramMaker 11 flowcharting tools to see if they had changed. I have not had a chance to look at the FrameMaker 11 flowcharting tools yet, but will do so as soon as I get a few hours of free time.

Arnis Gubins
Arnis Gubins
Inspiring
October 2, 2012

Ravinder,

FYI, there are no native specific flowcharting "tools" in FM. FM has some old flowchart figures drawn with the limited drawing primitives. You can reshape/rsize these and position them as a grouped object. But that's about it.

Arnis Gubins
Arnis Gubins
Inspiring
September 29, 2012

It should be under the Help > Clip Art... and then open the Flowchart.fm file.

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Anonymous
September 30, 2012

Thank you Arnis. 

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