Add Rich Media

Publish in a Variety of Languages

• Apply paragraph and character tags (styles) directly from catalogs in regular FrameMaker.
• Insert, change, and wrap elements directly from a catalog in Structured FrameMaker.
• Track Text Edits. With Track Text Edits, added/deleted text is highlighted for visual distinction. Navigate through edited text and accept or reject specific changes. Previews let you see original or final states. Changed information is preserved in XML roundtrip.
• Create and easily manage conditional documents. Enhanced conditional text features, including new dialogs. The color of text with multiple conditions now depends on the set of tags applied to the text. Now use Boolean expressions (AND, OR, NOT) to control the output of complex combinations of conditions.
• Create and globally manage user variables
• Embed rich media -- u3d and flash content is fully preserved when output to PDF
• FrameMaker has full Unicode support -- author in multiple languages. All FrameMaker features, e.g., find/change, markers, hypertext, and catalog entries, support Unicode. Export to PDF with Unicode bookmarks, tags, comments, and so on. Import/export Unicode content from other applications. Additional dictionaries help you author in more languages.

• Generate TOCs and IXs (and more) from multiple files.
• Control numbering properties across all files in a book.
• Quickly update book files after editing.
• Import formats across multiple files.
• Create one PDF from multiple files in a book.
• Create full Help systems from multiple files in a book using WebWorks ePublisher.

• Direct import of Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, QuarkXpress, and PDF files.
• SVG graphics rendered as vector-based graphics for print and PDF.
• Many graphics, and rich media formats are supported.
• Insert and set parameters for viewing U3D objects (Windows). Publish in PDF format with active 3D models. 3D objects are preserved in the XML roundtrip.
• Create documents with SWF files (Windows), such as Adobe Captivate movies. SWF objects are preserved in the XML roundtrip.

• Automatically create "tagged" PDFs from your FrameMaker files to:
  • Meet accessibility requirements.
  • Easily repurpose your PDFs for different viewing devices.

• FrameMaker 8 is MS Office 2007 certified.
• Find that you can work directly with MS Office applications, such as MS Excel, in the same way those applications work with each other.
• Use copy/paste, import object, or OLE to place spreadsheets, charts, and other objects in FrameMaker.
• Edit from the source application or directly from within FrameMaker.

Create, Import, Export, and Edit XML and DITA Documents

• Find that Structured FrameMaker has intuitive and robust XML and DITA handling capabilities:
  • Directly opening/edit/save XML files.
  • Support for conditional text in XML files.
  • Improved multi-file cross-references between XML files.
  • Directly opening/edit/save DITA documents (dita maps, topics, concepts, tasks, and references).
• See that FrameMaker's structured authoring environment is easy to learn with an excellent visual "structure view" and "element catalog" that allows easy insertion of elements, attributes, and content in your documents.
• Quickly validate documents for XML or DITA output.
• Find extensive utilities for creating and editing your EDDs, DTDs, Read/Write Rules and other components of your structured applications.
  • FrameMaker 8 includes nineteen predefined XML/DITA applications, so you never have to start "from scratch."
• Create conversion tables to easily map and convert regular FrameMaker documents to structured documents (for XML, DITA).
• FrameMaker 8 Enhanced Structured/XML authoring includes:
  • Enhanced XML roundtripping now includes system variables and processing instructions (PIs); also preserve XML comments as markers.
  • Import element formatting from CSS into DTD, to ensure consistent formatting across different XML applications. The CSS file can be referenced or manually imported in an XML document. Multiple CSS files can be imported sequentially, for multi-level formatting.
  • Single-sourcing workflows are preserved across other XML applications, which use attribute values for filtering XML documents. Filter structured documents based on attribute values using complex Boolean expressions. Multiple expressions can be created and saved for generating different outputs.
  • Built-in DITA application pack and DITA menu facilitate DITA authoring. Generate a FrameMaker document directly from a DITA Map. You can use the standard FrameMaker features while authoring DITA content.
  • Specify an HTTP path (Windows) to import graphics by reference or by copy. HTTP path is preserved in the XML roundtrip.

• In addition to FrameMaker's native mapping utility for creating HTML/XML directly from FrameMaker files, you may want to use Quadralay's XML based WebWorks ePublisher Pro to create sophisticated, custom HTML/XML or Help output directly from your FrameMaker files and books.
• WebWorks ePublisher Pro includes formats for DHTML, XHTML, XML, XSL, WebWorks Help, Palm Help, Oracle Help, Microsoft HTML Help, and more. From these formats, you can create totally custom stationary to make ongoing projects even easier.
• You can associate more than one format with a single project, and automatically convert graphics to GIF, JPEG, or PNG formats.

• Use FrameMaker's built in WebDAV feature to store, check in/out files, and allow for a collaborative work environment.
• Or add XMP information to your files to allow for more effective management of files by your existing document management system.
• In FrameMaker 8, WebDAV support is extended to allow authoring and editing of XML files located on the WebDAV server.