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FrameMaker in the Press
- Adobe Technical Communication team blog, July 6, 2008
-- Hotfix for FrameMaker by Mahesh Kumar Gupta
"... Some problems which you have been facing for long and
have been informing me on the same are fixed now -- courtesy
Microsoft. Yes, I would like to express my sincere thanks to
Microsoft for fixing some of our issues in a recently announced
Hotfix. This Hotfix should fix almost everything for which you
used to delete ‘Fntcache.Dat’ as a workaround. ...
Save as PDF leading to a crash; Text dropping out of PDF created
from FrameMaker." ... [blog post]
- CommLink (Newsletter of the Atlanta Chapter of the
STC), May 19, 2008 -- Convergence in technical communication:
an interview with Adobe Product Manager, Michael Hu by Tom
Burns
"... FrameMaker is here to stay, Adobe uses it to create
all of their product help... " [interview]
- I Came, I Saw, I Learned... (IconLogic), May 15, 2008
-- Adobe FrameMaker vs. Adobe InDesign! by Barbara
Binder
"... Adobe states that InDesign has "robust" long
document support. It does have some of the features mentioned
above, but in my opinion, it InDesign falls short for the really
long, complex technical documents. If you are a technical writer,
working on product documentation, I'd steer you towards FrameMaker.
For the rest of you, the wide and varied features of InDesign
will probably be a better fit. Or do what I do, buy both and
then you can chose the best fit for each individual job!"
[blog post]
- Adobe Technical Communication team blog, May 13, 2008
-- FrameMaker 8.0.3 Available!
"... FrameMaker 8.0.3 patch is live now and it is available
through Adobe Update Manager (AUM). This patch (8.0p276) must
be applied on top of 8.0.2 (8.0p273) only. You can check for
updates through Help->Updates Menu in FrameMaker." ...
[blog post]
Also see: message by Arnis Gubins in AdobeForums,
FM
8.0.3 patch RECALLED! (May 23)
- OneManWrites, May 8, 2008 -- Revision Control
[Subversion and FrameMaker] by Gordon McLean
"... We currently use FrameMaker and it works fairly well
with this system, although there are some limitations." [article]
- Blogcritics Magazine, May 6, 2008 -- Software Review:
Adobe Technical Communication Suite - Adobe Acrobat 8 3D by T. Michael
Testi
"... It has now grown to a product that promotes interactivity.
Working with Adobe Acrobat 8 3D I see enormous potential as it
sits right now, but also for the future. The way it works with
the CAD documents, with interactivity, with RoboHelp, Captivate,
and FrameMaker, as well as with all of the other Adobe products,
and even products from other manufacturers, makes Acrobat a key
linchpin product." [review]
- Adobe Technical Communication team blog, May 2, 2008
-- FrameMaker WebDAV Enhancements for CMS Integration
"WebDAV is a standard protocol and is supported by most
Content Management Systems (CMS). FrameMaker has built-in support
for connecting to any WebDAV server and accessing files. It enables
browsing the repository, selecting files and checking them out
from the Server." ... [blog post]
- Blogcritics Magazine, April 29, 2008 -- Software
Review: Adobe Technical Communication Suite - Adobe Captivate
3 by T. Michael Testi
"... All in all, Adobe Captivate 3 simplifies the creation
of training, e-learning, and demonstration content. Unlike many
screen capture programs, Captivate also allows for interaction
and testing. While it may be easy to use, to use it well will
still take time, preparation, and work. If you are in need of
putting together a learning course and training material, then
I highly recommend Adobe Captivate 3." [review]
- Blogcritics Magazine, April 21, 2008 -- Software
Review: Adobe Technical Communication Suite - Adobe RoboHelp
7 From Adobe Systems by T. Michael Testi
"... Enhanced support for Adobe FrameMaker 8 – now
allows you to import multiple FrameMaker file format types including
.fm, .book, .mif, .bk, and .frm at one time. Conditional
build tags (CBT) or user defined variables (UDV) can be converted
from FrameMaker to RoboHelp format saving a lot of time and effort." [review]
- Blogcritics Magazine, April 7, 2008 -- Software
Review - Adobe FrameMaker 8 From Adobe Systems by T. Michael
Testi
"... Needless to say that FrameMaker 8 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. If there is one thing that seems a bit out of place,
it is the interface, which seems a bit long in the tooth with
respect to many of the other Adobe products, but if the important
point is productivity then you have a state of the art engine
that will get the job done. With the addition of DITA which breaks
down a publishing project into reusable topics and brought together
by maps and makes for a very natural fit with FrameMaker's XML
handling. Then add the 3D support, this makes for a very good
upgrade indeed." [review]
- Yahoo! News, April 7, 2008 -- WebWorks ePublisher
Spring 2008 Release Supports FrameMaker 8, Word 2007 and MS-Vista
"With expanded support for more authoring environments and
operating systems and even stronger language support, the SPRING
2008 release opens the power of the ePublisher Platform to even
more users. Highlights of the SPRING 2008 release include: Full
support for content developed using Adobe FrameMaker 8.0 or Microsoft
Word 2007... " [press release]
- Intercom, April 2008 -- DITA Tools from a to z
by Bob Doyle
"Now integrated with RoboHelp 7, Captivate 3, and Acrobat
8 in the Technical Communication Suite, FrameMaker is a complete
DITA publishing solution (with or without the DITA OT), from
editor to high-quality PDF output. FrameMaker 8 lets DITA authors
access the full power of FrameMaker’s built-in print publishing
system, with tables of contents, figure and table lists, and
indexes, plus pristine output to PDF that competitive authoring
solutions can achieve only with expensive add-ons. By comparison,
the DITA Open Toolkit produces lower-quality PDFs with relatively
inflexible formatting. FrameMaker 8 shows that Adobe is serious
about maintaining their twenty-one-year-old desktop publishing
software alongside their InDesign replacement for PageMaker." ...
[Article]
- STC Toronto Chapter Newsletter, March 17, 2008 --
Single-Sourcing Madcap Flare with FrameMaker by Andrew
Brooke
"... MadCap Flare has tremendous potential, but suffers
from problems that are all too common in the software industry:
it tries to do too many things, and in the process, falls short
for specific tasks. I'm hopeful that all of these problems will
be addressed in a future release. In the meantime, if you're
looking for a solid, mature, dependable tool to generate online
help from FrameMaker, stick with WebWorks Publisher, which is
now called e-Publisher." [review]
- The Tech Writer's Garret, February 16, 2008 -- Fixing
FrameMaker
"It is generally accepted that FrameMaker is one of the
best tools for reliably authoring long documents. In this category
of software, Microsoft Word isn't even a contender. Yet for all
FrameMaker's many strengths, it still suffers from some rather
annoying problems that can really throw a spanner into the works
that is your writing. One of these is FrameMaker problems is
the size of some of its dialog windows, especially those used
for selecting conditional text settings." ... [blog post]
- Levent Unal’s Blog, February 10, 2008 -- Adobe
FrameMaker 8.0.1 Patch Automation
"Adobe is a great company with great products; however they
are not necessarily very good at creating installations that
are corporate friendly. It is not necessarily Adobe’s problem." ...
[blog post]
- Adobe Technical Communication team blog, February
5, 2008 -- FrameMaker 8.0.2 Available now!
"FrameMaker 8.0.2 patch is live now and it is available
through Adobe Update Manager (AUM). This patch (8.0p273) must
be applied on top of 8.0.1 (8.0p266) only. You can check for
updates through Help->Updates Menu in FrameMaker." ...
[blog post]
- dita.xml.org, January 10, 2008 -- Converting FrameMaker
content to DITA by Kay Whatley
"FrameMaker 8 includes DITA support, and works well for
creating new content. Converting existing FrameMaker content
poses a few challenges. ..." [blog post]
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