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What's new in Adobe FrameMaker

Check out these new features: improved XML handling, enhanced authoring tools, and more.

Unstructured to Structured Migration Guide

Learn the basic steps involved in migrating to XML and structured content with this introductory guide.

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Adobe® FrameMaker® 7.2 software delivers a powerful, enterprise-class authoring and publishing solution. With its WYSIWYG, template-based environment, extensive long-document support, and new multiple undo capabilities, FrameMaker enables scalable, single-source authoring and multichannel publishing. Publish short documents, multivolume books, and more in print, Adobe PDF, HTML, SGML, XML, and other formats.

• Master complex projects
• Experience powerful XML capabilities
• Publish to multiple channels

Master complex projects

• Author once and then publish to Adobe PDF, HTML, SGML, XML, and other formats.
• Easily retrace steps and correct mistakes with multiple undo.
  
• Work within your choice of authoring environments optimized for producing valid XML and SGML.
• Speed up routine tasks with powerful book authoring and layout features, such as automatic numbering, cross-references, and more.

Experience powerful XML capabilities

• Create and edit valid XML in a structured authoring environment.
  
  
• Incorporate XSLT in your editing workflow and map XML elements to document objects such as tables, graphics, and footnotes.
• Define the structure of your XML using document type definitions and XML schema.
• Control the appearance of your XML documents using context-sensitive formatting and edit in full WYSIWYG mode.

Publish to multiple channels

• Output to Adobe PDF using Adobe Acrobat® Distiller® 7.0 software.
• Publish to HTML and other formats using the included WebWorks® Publisher Standard Edition
• Add structure to unstructured documents via enhanced conversion tables.
• Work with a variety of graphics formats, including PDF, Adobe Photoshop® (PSD), and SVG.
  
  

Adobe® FrameMaker® software has long been the ideal tool for creating long and complex documents that can be distributed to worldwide audiences. FrameMaker 7.2 improves on FrameMaker 7.1 with the following new features:

Multiple Undo

• Easily retrace steps and correct mistakes with multiple undo.

XML Enhancements

• Use XML Schema as an alternative to DTDs for defining the structure of your content.

  

• Incorporate XSLT into your editing workflow. Automatically transform your XML content when you open it in FrameMaker or save it out from FrameMaker with XSLT scripts.

Improved support for the migration to XML and structured content

• New features in Conversion Tables reduce manual touch-up required in migrating unstructured content to structured.
• Introductory "migration guide" outlines the basic steps required in migrating to XML and structured content.
• More structured samples and templates

FrameMaker 7.1 new features

Improved XML handling

• Support for conditional text in XML documents.
• Ability to create cross-references between multiple XML files / instances.
• Default "Save as XML" when editnig XML documents.

Enhanced authoring tools

• New import filters for QuarkXPress and Adobe PageMaker documents (Windows only)
• New OpenType fonts and updated templates on both Windows and UNIX versions
• Support for direct placement of Adobe Photoshop and JPEG2000 images, and improved SVG support.

FrameMaker 7.0 new features

XML publishing power

• Ability to open, validate, edit and save XML files, for "XML roundtripping"
• XML "starter applications" for DocBook 4.1 and XHTML, plus an "XML Cookbook" that demonstrates how to work with XML and structured applications

Enhanced authoring tools

• Automatic association of master pages to pages based on paragraph styles or element tags
• More flexibility in custom master pages for reording in any sequence
• Up to 12 available running header and footer variables for more complex documents
• Select / Deselect All option in the Import Formats dialog box
• Improved UNIX font handling with support for OpenType, TrueType and Type 1 formats
• New import and export filters supporting RTF 1.6 and the latest versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.

Improved multichannel publishing

• Updated version of Quadralay WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition, for publishing FrameMaker documents to HTML and other formats

Collaboration features

• Support for Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
• Support for WebDAV for content creation and collaboration

Accessibility enhancements

• Tagged PDF generation for better document accessibility and the improved presentation of documents on a variety of devices and platforms
• Compatibility with the Microsoft Windows 2000 accessibility features
• Alternate text descriptions for graphics in output formats indended for the visually impaired.