The FrameMaker 11 for Windows (Upgrade from FrameMaker 10) from Adobe is an authoring and publishing solution. It allows you to use the new XML Code View to natively author structured content. It also enables collaboration with PDF-based roundtrip reviews. FrameMaker 11 allows you to manage content with out-of-the-box CMS integration.
FrameMaker 11 enables you to use the Author View or WYSIWYG View depending on the need. You can enjoy powerful XML authoring with XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 support and Banner Text. You can also create customized information models with a range of DITA 1.2 enhancements.FrameMaker 11 allows you to create high impact enterprise content faster with productivity features for individual contributors and collaborating teams. It enables you to improve throughput using API-based connectivity with CMSs, automatic content suggestions, Smart Paste, Quick Catalogs, error tracking and scripting. You can enrich the content with interactive media for a superior user experience. You also have the option to augment content with MP4, FLV and SWF videos, Object Styles and images. FrameMaker 11 can help you create interlinked documents with Hotspots and linked 3D images for better browsing and readability.FrameMaker 11 also allows you to publish HTML5 content virtually anywhere with Adobe FrameMaker Publishing Server 11 or Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4.* By simply specifying the screen size and layout, you can output to almost any device with FrameMaker 11. It can also help preview and optimize content display for better readability.Note:
*Adobe FrameMaker Publishing Server 11 is a separate product from Adobe FrameMaker 11, and needs to be purchased separately.
New Features
Native XML Code View
Dive directly into XML code using the code view. Exercise complete control over XML documents with a host of editing features, including customized toolbars, inline attribute editor, automated tracking of errors, Intelliprompt of attributes and elements, search using XPath and advanced XSLT features.
XSLT 2.0 Support
Create a variety of transformation scenarios by applying pre-defined or customized XSLT to XML files. Execute these transformations using a range of JAXP-compliant processors, such as Xalan and Saxon. Define the scope of transformation such as a file, all files of a folder or DITA map.
XPath 2.0 Support
Eliminate the need to browse through numerous lines of XML code. Use the XPath Pod to find your elements and automatically apply functions to them. Customize your query builder, get suggestions, define the scope of queries, use the history dropdown feature and save search results for greater productivity.
Comprehensive DITA Support
Meet consistency and authoring needs as well as specific output requirements. Create customized information models with automatic generation of DITA 1.2 elements (such as titles, tables of content and indexes), page rounding and numbering. Easily publish DITA maps to various output formats.*
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*This feature requires Adobe FrameMaker Publishing Server 11 or Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4. Adobe FrameMaker Publishing Server 11 is a separate product from Adobe FrameMaker 11 & must be purchased separately. Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 is a separate product from Adobe FrameMaker 11 & includes Adobe FrameMaker 11 as one of the components of the suite.
Author View
Focus on writing without bothering about page breaks and text formatting. Use the Author View to speed up content creation prior to customizing appearance and output.
WYSIWYG View
Prepare your documentation for publishing and sharing with the user community. Use the WYSIWYG View to apply and modify styles, themes and formats. Render your content as intended and see it as your users will.
Assisted Authoring with Banner Text
Speed up authoring with customizable Banner Text suggestions for various content elements. This eliminates the need for constantly referring to the document structure. Help authors of different backgrounds and skill levels create content consistently in a multi-authoring environment.
Rapid Authoring
Speed up XML authoring with a range of productivity features such as Intelliprompt of elements and attributes, template based structure suggestions, automatic insertion of end tags, dynamic validation and pretty printing. Work faster with large XML/DITA files and DITA maps in multi-authoring environments.
Integration with Content Management Systems (CMSs)
Smoothly integrate with CMSs like EMC Documentum and Microsoft SharePoint via built-in connectors and others using third party plug-ins. Get a set of APIs to connect your enterprise authoring environment with virtually any CMS. Improve search ability of content with custom metadata.
Smart Paste
Author structured content faster. Convert unstructured content to a structured format with Smart Paste such as Microsoft Word / Excel / HTML to DITA and HTML tables to FrameMaker tables.
Enhanced Video Support
Develop richer, more engaging technical content by adding a variety of high impact multimedia features. Enjoy robust support for video content in MP4, FLV and SWF formats. Customize videos by selecting posters and creating links* with text, to play, pause or jump.
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*This feature applies to FLV and SWF.
Hotspots
Create linked documents with better readability and usability by inserting Hotspots over images, vector illustrations and objects or parts of them. Convert shapes to Hotspots. Clicking on these Hotspots will enable your users to see other relevant parts of the document.
Linked 3D Graphics
Create a richer user experience when working with 3D graphics by linking them with relevant parts of a document. Enable users to switch between parts of 3D graphics and the associated descriptions by inserting bi-directional links. Play 3D animations by clicking on the text.
Object Styles
Create, save and apply Object Styles to give your content a consistent look and feel. Apply a wide variety of pre-defined styles to objects such as images, anchored frames, graphic objects, text frames, text lines and equations. Easily update properties and change the styles of multiple objects by applying Object Styles to them.
Publishing Virtually Anywhere
Publish content to multiple channels, formats and screens using HTML5 integration built into Adobe FrameMaker Publishing Server 11 or Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4.* Deliver content to iPad** as well as other tablets, smartphones and desktops in a wide range of popular formats. Create print-ready CMYK PDFs.
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*Adobe FrameMaker Publishing Server 11 is a separate product from Adobe FrameMaker 11 and must be purchased separately. Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 is a separate product from Adobe FrameMaker 11 and includes Adobe FrameMaker 11 as one of the components of the suite.**Subject to Apple's current requirements and approval.
Other Features
Book and Structured Book Capabilities
Employ an intuitive user interface for books, as well as tools for hierarchical books and books within books. Incorporate XML files and other structured FrameMaker documents as well as reference DITA maps or bookmaps.
Intuitive User Interface
Work more efficiently thanks to a highly user oriented interface design. Use floating toolbars and control bars, dock your most frequently used dialog boxes for quick access and create workspaces customized to your workflow.
Fully Integrated Authoring Environment
Create, edit and publish technical content with powerful features for automatic numbering, cross referencing, creating tables of contents, indexes, books and more. Automate formatting via templates and easily integrate tables, graphs as well as images.
Powerful, Scalable Single Sourcing
Effortlessly single source variations of the same document for different channels and purposes. Build and use complex Boolean expressions to define output filters in topic based, structured and unstructured modes.
Filtering by Attribute
Enable better management and reuse of content. Take advantage of support for multi-valued attributes and the ability to import expressions from one document to another.
Formats and Format Overrides
Manage formats for paragraphs, characters and tables from the existing catalog or create displayable custom lists. Create new formats and delete or override those that are unused or not useful.
Enhanced Attribute Editor
Define and edit attributes for declarations in markup to perform multiple functions such as record the status of content within elements, allow cross referencing between elements or specify how to format an element.
Enhanced Tag View
Easily view all elements in a collapsible format, even in document view. Hide or collapse parent and child elements individually or simultaneously. Search through and open elements, including those that are collapsed.
Text Drag and Drop and Background Color
Drag text, elements, rows and columns from tables and drop them into new documents or applications to save time. Emphasize and highlight important sections of text by adding color to the background.
Table Catalog Creation
Manage and apply table formats with enhanced table catalog creation. View all table formats present in your document and apply or delete them easily.
Structured Application Creation Wizard
Benefit from a basic infrastructure for working with structured FrameMaker. With this highly intuitive, UI-based tool, you can start working with structured FrameMaker even if you don't have any prior knowledge or training.
Change Tracking at Book Level
Save time with a host of powerful features to review and track changes across an entire book. Navigate through a review by accepting individual changes or all changes, using review icons. View and edit changes from selected users.
Quick Catalogs
Use Quick Catalogs for single click insertion of the entire linear tree hierarchy of an element. It can also be used to apply styles to paragraphs, characters, variables and conditional text.
PDF-Based Reviews
Participate in collaborative PDF-based roundtrip reviews using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Cloud. Share, aggregate and incorporate comments faster in multi-author and multi-reviewer environments.
Enhanced Importing of Comments from PDF Files
Import comments with type highlights retained from PDF files into Adobe FrameMaker 11 with the Text Background Color feature.
Automation through Scripting
Easily automate time consuming, repetitive tasks through advanced scripting support with Adobe ExtendScript. Run scripts for simple tasks from within Adobe FrameMaker or through the ExtendScript Toolkit to eliminate manual effort and help increase productivity.
Usability Enhancements
Work more efficiently with popular standards-compliant*, pre-built tools and templates designed for easier authoring. Use utilities like Auto Spell Check, Highlight Support, scrolling for lengthy dialogue and enhanced Find and Replace to get the job done faster and smarter.
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*Adobe FrameMaker 11 allows you to create content compliant with popular industry standards such as XML, DITA 1.2 and S1000D.
Structure Level Comparison of Documents
Compare any two documents through the Compare Documents user interface. Changes are marked through Track Text Edits in the composite document.
Publishing DITA Maps to Books
Easily publish your DITA content to professional looking output. Generate nested books and books with flat components. Create attractive book content from DITA maps by automatically generating titles, tables of content, applying number properties and page rounding.