 Adobe FrameMaker is a desktop publishing (DTP) application that is popular for large documents. It is produced by Adobe Systems. Although FrameMaker has evolved slowly in recent years, it maintains a strong following among professional technical writers. As an all-in-one package optimized for technical writers, FrameMaker remains unrivalled (although many high-end Technical Publication departments are moving to Arbortext and other XML-based systems due to their abilities for robust content single sourcing capabilities).
FrameMaker has more or less kept up with the times in supporting new standards such as XML and WebDAV, but at heart it is a proprietary single-desktop-oriented system based on a binary file format. While problems exist in FrameMaker's XML incarnation, FrameMaker supports authoring in an XML-based workflow considerably better than Microsoft Word.
Adobe FrameMaker 8 software is a powerful authoring and publishing solution for technical communicators and an essential upgrade for existing FrameMaker users who want to author and publish technical documentation in multiple languages.
FrameMaker became an Adobe product in 1995 when Adobe purchased Frame Technology Corp. Adobe added SGML support, which eventually morphed into today's XML support. In April of 2004, Adobe ceased support of FrameMaker for the Macintosh.
This reinvigorated rumours that surfaced in 2001 stating that product development and support for FrameMaker are being wound down. Adobe strenuously denied these rumors in 2001. Adobe released Framemaker 8 at the end of July of 2007.
Unicode support (New)
Edit and create content in multiple languages, and author content for global audiences with dictionary and hyphenation support for most languages.
Support for rich media (New)
Create more engaging online documentation by incorporating 3D models, rich Adobe Flash® Player compatible animations, and simulations created with Adobe Captivate™ software. Generate Adobe PDF files with live 3D models.
New DITA support (New)
Use a prebuilt DITA application to author, publish, and distribute topic-oriented information in XML and create DITA maps.
Fully integrated authoring tools
Create, edit, and publish technical content with powerful features for automatic numbering, cross-references, tables of contents, indexes, books, and more. Automate formatting via templates and integrate tables, graphics, and images.
Flexible authoring environment
Work in a familiar style-tagging word processing mode or in a fully structured environment optimized for editing and producing valid XML and SGML. Manage your content entirely in XML, use XSLT during editing, and conform to industry standards such as DITA and DocBook. Easily convert existing documents to structured content through conversion tables. And import content from many other formats, including Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, QuarkXPress, and Adobe PageMaker® software.
Powerful, scalable single-sourcing
Effortlessly single-source variations of the same document for different channels and purposes by building complex Boolean expressions for defining output filters in structured and unstructured mode. Easily distinguish multiconditional text through improved color coding. Use attributes to control conditional output in structured mode. Manage and rename conditional tags through a convenient new dialog box.
Attribute-based output (New)
Use attribute values to control conditional output in structured mode.
Conversion tables
Migrate existing content to XML and structured content with minimal manual touch-up.
XML roundtripping (Enhanced)
Preserve comments, variables, and conditional text when importing and exporting structured content and migrating XML content. Now you can roundtrip web-based graphics in XML workflows.
XML Schemas (Enhanced)
Use XML Schemas as an alternative to DTDs for defining the structure of your content.
XSLT support
Incorporate XSLT scripts into your editing workflow. Automatically transform your XML content when you open it in FrameMaker, or save it out from FrameMaker with XSLT scripts.
Migration guide
An introductory migration guide outlines the basic steps required in migrating to XML and structured content.
Microsoft Office 2007 support (New)
Import content created in Microsoft Word 2007 and Excel 2007.
Homepage - http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/
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