Adobe FrameMaker 9
Adobe FrameMaker 9 software is a powerful authoring and publishing solution for technical communicators. Take advantage of an intuitive user interface, unified workflows, and a template-based authoring environment to simplify content delivery and conform to organizational requirements for consistency and branding.
Top features in FrameMaker 9
- Fully integrated authoring environment
- Full support for DITA standards
- Special object management for books and DITA maps
- New, intuitive user interface
- Book and structured book capabilities
- Rich media object incorporation
- Out-of-the-box CMS integration support
- Long-document and pristine PDF output support
- Importing of comments from PDF files
- Windows® CMYK support
Adobe FrameMaker solutions for manufacturing
FrameMaker solutions for manufacturing
Manufacturers deal with a tremendous stream of information that is critical to their profitable operation. It must be managed and integrated into external product documentation, as well as data-heavy catalogs and other materials to support the sales channel. Producing these materials is labor intensive, lead times are long, and conventional publishing formats such as paper catalogs are expensive.
Publishing groups in this industry must manage and integrate information from a diverse array of sources to support the manufacturing process, provide documentation for manufactured products and components, and meet certification requirements.
An information publishing solution based on Adobe® FrameMaker® 8 software or Adobe FrameMaker Server 8 software offers a template-driven publishing model. The benefits for manufacturing include: a full-featured authoring tool for creating long, complex documents from disparate sources; server-based publishing that supports publishing parts catalogs and other materials directly from a data repository; powerful single-sourcing; and content management for change control, reuse, and repurposing of information.
FrameMaker 8 key benefits
- Create rich XML documents in a familiar word-processing environment and distribute them in nonmodifiable formats.
- Lock in document accuracy and consistency through preset styles and automatic formatting.
- Single-source variations of the same document through advanced conditional output.
- Help users and service personnel quickly find information they need in highly reliable manuals with a unified appearance.
- Ease the cultural transition from paper to electronic files with a consistent authoring interface.
- Convert files to Adobe PDF for timesaving electronic commenting and reduced storage and bandwidth requirements.
- Integrate 3D models and rich media contained in Adobe Flash SWF files directly into their Adobe PDF documents.
- Enable anyone with Adobe Reader to experience dynamic and interactive assets such as 3D, video and animation directly within the context of their document.
- Integrate screen recordings, simulations, tutorials, and quizzes created with Adobe Captivate 3.
- Reuse content across similar product lines and for shared components.
- Manage document authoring and production so that documents follow the product development and manufacturing timeline.
- Customize or personalize new and updated operations manuals and repair procedures for individual products and distribute them worldwide.
Adobe FrameMaker 9 – System requirements
System requirements
Windows
- 1.0GHz or faster processor
- Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended), Windows Vista® with Service Pack 1 or Windows® 7
- 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
- 1.1GB of available hard-disk space
- DVD-ROM drive
- 1,024×768 screen resolution
Adobe FrameMaker Server 9 – Upgrade details
Adobe FrameMaker Server 9 software is an essential upgrade with new features to help you author and publish polished technical documentation in multiple languages. Handle structured content in XML and SGML; support DITA and DocBook document types; and leverage support for Unicode, 3D, and rich content.
Upgrade to Adobe FrameMaker Server 9*
You have: Adobe FrameMaker (Windows®, UNIX®) 8, 7.2, 7.1, or 7.0
You want: Adobe FrameMaker Server 9
You pay: US$3,999
*Upgrade pricing is available only for the products listed above and requires a qualifying previous product on the same platform, with serial number. Upgrades for volume and education licensing are handled separately.
Adobe FrameMaker 9 – Supported Languages
Adobe FrameMaker 9 provides full authoring support for these languages:
- Canadian French
- English (U.S. and International)
- French
- German
- Swiss German
Full authoring support without dictionary or hyphenation is available for these languages:
- Japanese
- Korean
- Simplified Chinese
- Traditional Chinese
Dictionary and hyphenation support is available for the following languages:
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Nynorsk
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
Adobe FrameMaker Server 9 System requirements and languages
System requirements
Windows
- 1.0GHz or faster processor
- Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista® with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit editions)
- 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
- 1.1GB of available hard-disk space
- DVD-ROM drive
- 1,024×768 screen resolution
Language versions
This product is available in the following languages:
- English
- French
- German
- Japanese
Supported Languages
Adobe® FrameMaker® Server 9 provides full authoring support for these languages:
- Canadian French
- English (U.S. and International)
- French
- German
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Adobe FrameMaker Server 9 Features
Powerful, template-based publishing solution
Quickly automate document assembly as well as formatting via templates, and compose custom documents dynamically. Use the FrameMaker Developer Kit (FDK) with Adobe® FrameMaker® Server 9 and the software’s built-in import filters and XML support with a variety of data sources, including databases, application servers, and web services.
Broad range of input formats
Work with XML, SGML, Maker Interchange Format (MIF), native FrameMaker, JPEG, GIF, PDF, CGM, and SWF files and more.
Superior support for structured content
Map XML and SGML elements to document elements such as tables, cross-references, index markers, and footnotes. Use a context-sensitive styling language for sophisticated formatting.
Sophisticated PDF output
Generate tables of contents, cross-references, and indexes with hyperlinks; automatically create Adobe PDF bookmarks; and embed 3D views and rich content in PDF versions of your documentation.
Shared API
FrameMaker Server 9 and the desktop version, Adobe FrameMaker 9 software, share the same API as well as the FDK, making it easy for programmers to transfer their skills from one environment to the other.
Adobe FrameMaker Server 9
Adobe FrameMaker Server 9 software extends the power of Adobe FrameMaker 9 software in an automated, server-based environment. It includes essential features that facilitate high-volume publishing for global audiences, including catalog, database, and directory publishing, as well as the production of personalized technical documents and custom eBooks.
Top features in FrameMaker Server 9
- Powerful, template-based publishing solution
- Broad range of input formats
- Superior support for structured content
- Sophisticated PDF output
- Shared API
- Unicode support
- DITA support
- Rich media support
- Text edit tracking and multiple undo
- Conditional output
Adobe FrameMaker 9 – Windows CMYK support
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 FrameMaker 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.
Needless to say, FrameMaker 9 still does what it has done best for so many years; that is, create long documents and technical documents. It is superb for working with collaborated works as it has the ability to share files and facilitate peer reviews. It also performs as a base for creating documents use in the Technical Suite and so performs the role of one of the three legs of the tripod in this group.
When you add in the PDF review capabilities, it makes it more significant. Now you can use a send-for-review command which allows you to e-mail a version of your document to your review party and they can comment, which you can then import back in; this may be the biggest feature to this release. Then when you add in the improved book handling, the complete DITA handling, CMS support, and the CMYK this is really a must-have update and therefore I highly recommend this product.
What is new with Adobe FrameMaker 9?
• A New interface has brought FrameMaker 9 in line with the majority of Adobe products. They have added “pods” which are panes that can float anywhere in the FrameMaker 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 FrameMaker 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. FrameMaker 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 Bookmap 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 FrameMaker-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 FrameMaker file.