Adobe Frame Maker 9 is a desktop publishing and word processing application that is popular for large documents. Originally created by Frame Technology, Frame Maker was acquired by Adobe in 1995. There had been off and on talk around the industry that Adobe was going to wind down development of the Frame Maker product especially after they ceased support for the product on the Macintosh, but with the release of Frame Maker 8 in 2007, and with the inclusion of the first release of the Technical Communications Suite, it put the end to that rumor.
Frame Maker 9 is a key component in the Technical Communications Suite. It provides the solution for the creation and publication of technical documentation. It combines word processing capabilities and XML-based structured authoring with template-based publishing.
With Frame Maker you can create, edit, and publish content with features for automatic numbering, cross-references, table of content, indexes, books and more. You can work in style tagging word processor mode, or in a fully structured environment optimized for editing and producing valid XML and SGML. You can even manage content entirely in XML, use XSLT during editing, and conform to industry standards such as DITA and DocBook.
What is new with Adobe Frame Maker 9?
• A New interface has brought Frame Maker 9 in line with the majority of Adobe products. They have added "pods" which are panes that can float anywhere in the Frame Maker workspace and these handle many of the most frequently used features. There are also predefined and customizable workspaces that can be saved and reused for a more efficient workflow. The new user interface not only enables tabbed document windows, but for the first time also makes it possible to "drag" a document window outside of the Frame Maker window.
• Book and structured book capabilities have been enhanced to allow hierarchical books. Previously a book was a flat list of documents, usually the chapters inside a book. Now you can further split the content into topics and manage content at the topic level. Frame Maker also supports numbering constructs for sections and sub-sections. Books can now include multiple books and files organized in folders or groups. Folders in books are logical containers that can be regarded as a chapter, section or sub-section within a book file.
• Full support for DITA standards including DITA 1.1 support of Book map indexing and Glossary specifications, and 1.2 support of Learning and Training Content Specialization (beta) specification for developing training content. DITA is the industry standard for re-use and re-purposing of modular units. This will allow you to author fully compliant DITA content including eLearning content that conforms to the draft version of specification.
• Special object management for books and DITA maps gives support to a new hierarchical book model that can include Frame Maker-native chapters and individual topic files as well as XML and DITA objects, including DITA maps. This gives you the ability to control topic organization and hierarchy within the book file. With the new book paradigm you get greater capabilities for combining object types and supporting topic-oriented authoring and publishing.
• CMS integration support lets you work directly with files on a content management system (CMS). By supporting HTTP paths to interact with CMS and WebDAV-compliant repositories you can browse objects, check-in/check-out, view history, and perform any other functions that the repository supports. You can create user-friendly aliases for frequently-used HTTP paths as well as setting user preferences to automatically checkout files on open or save on closing.
• Importing of comments from PDF files is now available. The comments are formatted as Tracked Text edits. The deleted text is marked out and the inserted text is underlined. Sticky notes are imported as comment markers. Once imported you can accept or reject them in the Frame Maker file.
• Windows CMYK support will now allow you to publish composite PDF objects that support Windows CMYK for better printing options. In the past when you created a PDF with the Windows version of Frame Maker with CMYK colors they would all be converted to RGB and when sent to print they would have to be converted again. Now you get CMYK with an option to convert to RGB.
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