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- Elephant, December 26, 2006 -- From Word to FrameMaker
with Love by Mumpy
... "It was glorious waving goodbye to Word. No longer
will I have to wonder why my documents go straight from page
1 to page 3. ... Yes, indeed, we bid a fond adieu to Word and
strode confidently into the wonderful world of FrameMaker without
looking back. ... But it wasn’t all fun and nice cups of
tea." ... [Blog post]
- The Content Wrangler, November 8, 2006 -- Adobe
Strengthens Focus On Technical Communication: Interview With
An Adobe Evangelist
... "As I said earlier, Adobe hasn’t made any formal
announcements in this area. But our current assumption is that
the next major release of FrameMaker will be in the first half
of 2007." ... [Interview]
- EARTHtimes, November 6, 2006 -- Vasont Systems
Unveils New FrameMaker EDD Manager at the FrameMaker Chautaugua
Conference
... "Vasont's FrameMaker EDD Manager gives FrameMaker
users an organized way to manage, reuse, and repurpose their
EDDs using the features of a content management system."
... [Press Release]
- EE Times, October 30, 2006 -- Address Maps Find
New Route by Richard Goering
"Semifore (Mountain View, Calif.) has developed CSRSpec,
a high-level language for describing registers, and CSRCompiler,
which generates the "views" needed by various members
of the design team... For the software team, CSRCompiler produces
header files for C-language programs. For documentation, it produces
documents in Word and FrameMaker..." [News Item]
Palimpsest, October 4, 2006 -- Adobe at LavaCon
"Karl Matthews delivered the lunch keynote. ... a few crumbs:
... The FrameMaker developers recognize that Unicode is a critical
need for many users." ... [Blog post]
See also:
Adobe Solutions for Technical Communications
FAQ (July 2006): ... -- What are Adobe’s plans for the
future of FrameMaker software? -- What new features will be added
to FrameMaker? -- When will the next version of FrameMaker be
available? ...
FrameMaker 2005 Chautauqua: Karl Matthews’
Keynote Presentation, Nov. 2005 (PDF: 150K)
-- "... Support increased globalization: Yes, that
likely means Unicode!... "
- SYS-CON Media, October 2, 2006 -- MadCap Software
Announces the Arrival of Flare 2.0
... "Bjorn Backlund, CTO of MadCap Software, remarked,
'FrameMaker authors can easily and quickly bring their FrameMaker
documents into a Flare
project, and all of their formatting and other settings are transferred
seamlessly. They can even continue to author in FrameMaker if
they want. It's completely flexible. When users want to create
output, they can export back out to FrameMaker documents or to
any of our online formats, or any combination that they want.'..."
[Press Release]
- ISTC, October 2006 -- WebWorks Publisher 2003 product
line discontinued
"Quadralay, the creators of WebWorks, have announced
that as of 1 July this year, WebWorks Publisher Professional
2003 and associated 2003 products were retired. With the successful
launch of WebWorks ePublisher Pro more than a year ago and the
recent release of WebWorks ePublisher Express in July, Quadralay
decided to end the 2003 product line." ... [Newsletter]
See also comment: Bad news for WWP 2003 users (Palimpsest)
- schiller labs, September 29, 2006 -- Adobe to Discontinue
Adobe SVG Viewer
"... SVG is an established vector image format. Adobe currently
supports SVG in several of its authoring and server products,
including Illustrator, InDesign, GoLive, Version Cue, Graphics
Server, FrameMaker, and FrameMaker Server. Adobe customer support
for Adobe SVG Viewer will be discontinued on January 1,
2007.. ..." [Blog post]
- EContent, September 12, 2006 -- Adobe Announces
New XML Authoring Support for FrameMaker 7.2
"... Adobe Systems Incorporated has made available as
a public beta for the Windows platform two new Application Packs
for Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 software, Adobe's authoring and publishing
software. The two new beta Application Packs, available at no
charge, can provide enterprises and developers with support for
the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and S1000D
specifications for creating technical publications, documentation,
and other resources..." [News Item]
Download the FM 7.2 Application Packs for
DITA and S1000D
- September 4, 2006 -- Wordfast
"... Filters are the strong point of Trados. It can handle
a hell of a lot of formats, from the well-known DTP to more obscure
formats. Wordfast - +Tools actually - is catching up on that
bit by bit and is now providing some beta support for "*.mif"
(FrameMaker), PDF, HTML, XML..." [Blog post]
- ISTC, September 2006 -- New Translation Software
from Lingotek
"Lingotek has developed a new translation technology
called a Language Search Engine, and before the end of the year,
it intends to launch a version that supports Adobe FrameMaker." ...
[Newsletter]
- Technically Speaking, August 24, 2006 -- FrameMaker
or InDesign?
"... So, I had to go back to my manager and request the
latest version of FrameMaker. I’d love to use InDesign,
and I probably will use it for Quick Reference cards and other
layout-intensive documents, but for my book-length documents,
my documentation requirements are better met by Frame. ..."
[Blog post]
- ITAuthor, August 8, 2006 -- Adobe FrameMaker Webinars
by Alistair Christie
"XMetaL have been doing a lot of work on DITA over the
last few months. I'm still waiting to hear what Madcap are doing
about putting DITA support into Flare. But in the meanwhile,
Adobe have surprised a lot of people (me included) by announcing
and -- more importantly -- demonstrating their FrameMaker DITA
Application Pack, which adds a DITA menu to FrameMaker 7.2. ..."
[Review]
- Dr. Macro's XML Rants, July 21, 2006 -- XCMTDMW:
Characteristics of an XML CMS
"... But what if you happen to have a 20-year legacy of
Framemaker documents and you really don't have a need (or budget
or time or patience or stomache) to convert them to XML just
so you can get some decent content management features? ..."
[Blog post]
- Yahoo Financial News, July 18, 2006 -- XMetaL and
Mekon Announce FrameMaker Adapter for DITA
... "The FrameMaker Adapter provides organizations that
rely on FrameMaker for PDF output the ability to choose from
a variety of authoring tools for creating DITA content, while
preserving their investment in FrameMaker templates and style
sheets. This allows them to take advantage of the advanced capabilities
of the DITA Open Toolkit for processing DITA content, such as
map merging and transformations into assorted output formats."
... [Press Release]
- Core Dump, July 11, 2006 -- Adobe Announces FrameMaker
DITA Application Pack by Keith Soltys
"In a webinar today, Adobe announced and demoed the
FrameMaker DITA Application Pack, an extension to FrameMaker
that adds full DITA support to FrameMaker 7.2. Adobe did ship
a DITA structured application with FrameMaker 7.2, but the application
pack adds much more functionality, including a DITA menu, support
for maps, relationship tables, conrefs, and ID generation." ...
[News Item]
- ISTC, July 2006 -- Inmedius Launches New Application
"Provider of technical documentation production software,
Inmedius, has launched its newest application, Advisor. The easy-to-use
program automates Quality Assurance, ensuring that SGML and XML
data content conforms to business rules and standards, so that
publication authors no longer have to manually check each and
every document. ... The desktop version can integrate with Arbortext
Editor, Adobe FrameMaker, Altova XMLSpy and other SGML and XML
editors." ... [Newsletter]
- OpenOffice.org Training, Tips, and Ideas, June 24,
2006 -- Is OpenOffice the Right Tool for Techwriters and Book
Production? by Solveig Haugland
"Let's get this out of the way up front. I use Framemaker
for all my OpenOffice.org workboks and books. It's just a better
tool than both OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Word. FrameMaker
has conditional text, extraordinary cross-referencing and numbering
tools, solid, reliable layout features, conditional text (which
I use extensively), and much more." ... [Review]
- WritersUA, June 14, 2006 -- A Revived Future for
RoboHelp by Joe Welinske
... "Over the past seven years the Adobe focus has been
on building out the Acrobat and Creative Suite franchises. Now
we are reallocating resources to products like FrameMaker that
have been under resourced. Also, the support for XML is a big
feature of FrameMaker that was a bit ahead of its time. We waited
for the XML market to mature and become popular. Technical publications
is where the promise of XML will be greatly realized. We've increased
resources on FrameMaker significantly." ... [Interview with Michael Hu, Senior Product
Marketing Manager for FrameMaker, RoboHelp, and PageMaker]
See also:
-- Adobe Solutions for Technical Communications
FAQ (July 2006)
-- Is RoboHelp Alive? by Mike Hamilton
-- Comment: Flare,
RoboHelp, and FrameMaker
- EContent Magazine, June 13, 2006 -- X Marks the
Spot: Let's Take Today's XML Content-Creation Tools for a Spin
by Bob Doyle
... "Perhaps a million technical writers work with FrameMaker
(FM). The latest versions allow structured writing, but only
a small percentage of FM documents are structured. Unfortunately,
FM stores the structured content model (allowed elements, their
frequency, and order) in a proprietary EDD document combining
structural (schema) information and style information, which
are best kept separate." ... [Review]
- New Millennium Publishing, May 25, 2006 -- Reading
the MadCap Tea Leaves by Bill Trippe
... "MadCap is moving in on FrameMaker, an established
and successful product that has languished under uninterested
management at Adobe. Meanwhile, Adobe moved in on and overtook
QuarkXPress, an established and successful product that languished
under arrogant management at Quark. Obviously, there is no telling
what MadCap’s tool will be like -- it is only an announcement
-- but the useful lesson from Quark’s loss of market share
is that no product is immune from competition." ... [Opinion]
See also: New
toys coming
- Yahoo Financial News, May 22, 2006 -- MadCap Software
Financial Performance Exceeds Expectations
... "We have an extremely talented and aggressive development
team dedicated to creating 'future-proof' XML based products,"
said Bjorn Backlund, CTO of MadCap Software. "The release
of Version 2, scheduled this September, will make Flare the first
true, single-sourcing, XML-based tool by adding Adobe® Framemaker®
import/export to the existing Microsoft Word import/export currently
in the tool." ... [Press Release]
- Tales from FAR Manor, May 21, 2006 -- Quotable
quotes about Word
"... Frame isn’t the most feature-laden product in
the world, but it is extremely predictable and very stable. The
only way to lose significant work to a FrameMaker crash is to
start typing in a new document without saving it before it crashes.
Anyway, all the things I started hearing from Word users at that
point made me less than motivated to go back. ..." [Blog post]
- ISTC, May 2006 -- Authors Vote for Freedom of Speech
by Sophie Hurst
"... The results of our survey show, however, that the
most commonly used tools by authors today are Microsoft Word
and Adobe FrameMaker. Typical XML authoring environments, such
as Arbortext Editor and Blast Radius XMetaL, are not as widely
used yet. ..." [Newsletter]
- Macworld, April 21, 2006 -- Adobe CEO on Boot Camp,
Photoshop and Intel Macs by Martyn Williams
"... He also said the recently announced Boot Camp software,
which allows Intel-based Mac computers to run the Windows operating
system, won't have a big impact on Adobe's Mac software line-up...
'However there are some products that we have today that we have
not been able to afford to continue to develop to make available
on the Mac. A great example being FrameMaker. The majority of
FrameMaker users use Windows as an OS but there is a small percentage
that want to use FrameMaker on the Mac so they can use Boot Camp.'..."
[News Item]
- ITAuthor, April 13, 2006 -- Adobe@FrameMaker.day
by Alistair Christie
"... The final bonus of the day was a video conference
hook-up with Karl Matthews, Group Product Manager with responsibility
for FrameMaker and RoboHelp..."
FrameMaker@Adobe.Day (UK), held March 15 [Report]
- Communicator (ISTC), Spring 2006 -- FrameMaker
7.2: What’s the Real Deal? by Bernard Aschwanden
and Kay Ethier
"... So where does this leave you in your decision on
upgrading? Well, if you have the budget to upgrade to version
7.2 and want to be current at all times, then you’ll upgrade
no matter what we say. If you don’t have the budget and
are not allowed to move to a new version, we can’t sway
you either. However, for those of you wondering what to do, we
offer this conclusion: ..." [Quarterly Journal]
Also included in this journal: Taking FrameMaker a Little
Further by Steve Rickaby
- LXer Linux News, April 2, 2006 -- Running Linux,
Version 5: Behind the Scenes by Tom Adelstein
"... The tools group wants everything perfect so they
can make the conversion from whatever format we use to the industry
standard: FrameMaker. ... " [Article]
- XML.com, March 8, 2006 -- The Emerging Art of Agile
Publishing by Michael Fitzgerald
"... Another way of interleaving work is to share tools.
If I were a production editor, I might be working in the Adobe
FrameMaker editor to produce camera-ready copy for the printer.
As a writer, I've worked in FrameMaker as well. Why not share
the same tool? It would cut out a lot of time if we both used
the same tool. Too much time is eaten up converting and munging
files from one format to the other, to say nothing of the cleanup
required. Uncommon? Yes. Impossible? No." [Article]
- MacWorld, March 7, 2006 -- FrameMaker for Mac campaign
rises again
"... Mac-using FrameMaker fans have been using the application
in Classic mode, but Classic isn't supported by Intel Macs. Apple's
move to Intel closes FrameMaker users from the application they
need to use. In response to this problem, a petition demanding
Adobe port FrameMaker to OS X has been relaunched." [News Item]
- ISTC, March 2006 -- FrameMaker vs Word
"February saw a flurry of discussion about FrameMaker,
Word and InDesign on the ISTC discussion group. FrameMaker won
hands down as a better tool for managing large, complex documents,
with Word more suitable for smaller booklets. FrameMaker is still
the firm favourite for technical documentation and online help.
..." [Newsletter]
- Electronic Engineering Times, February 20, 2006 --
From specs to verification plans, by Relay
"... Relay features a "spec annotator" that
has an interface built into Microsoft Word and FrameMaker.
As users point to design attributes that need coverage goals,
Relay extracts data and calls up a Java-based program to build
a verification plan." [News Item]
- CNET editors' review, February 15, 2006 -- Apple
iWork '06
"... The bottom line: Overall, Apple iWork '06
is a compelling package, though mostly due to Keynote 3.
Keynote 3 is a better tool than PowerPoint, and Pages 2
offers some intriguing new features, though professional users
will still yearn for Adobe FrameMaker." [Review]
- Yahoo Financial News, February 14, 2006 -- Quadralay
Launches AutoMap 9.0 to Simplify Customized Content Generation
"... Fully re-engineered, AutoMap 9.0 harnesses the
power of XML to deliver both critical information-management
capabilities and fully automated online ePublishing for large
documentation groups, as well as small, one-person operations.
..." [Press Release]
- MCAD, February 10, 2006 -- Software: Adobe Acrobat
3D by Martyn Day
"... All of a sudden, Adobe is in the technical publications
market, although to an extent it has been in document publishing
with Framemaker. Acrobat 3D is a necessary to tool to do the
combine 3D content, 2D content, text information and bill of
materials spread sheets, to produce extremely rich engineering
content. The delivery wrapper for all this is PDF, which of course
is ubiquitous, so anyone can read it. ..." [Review]
- MCAD, February 10, 2006 -- PTC in Bullish Mood
by Martyn Day
"... Arbortext is simple to understand and a nobrainer
if you aren’t already using something like Adobe’s
Framemaker program. PTC will have the jump in the engineering
space because of the tight integration with CAD data that it
should be able to achieve. Framemaker is also due a revamp. I
think there’s a lot of potential for Arbortext to bring
in the bacon for PTC, the question will be how long they will
have the competitive edge, as Adobe also seems dead keen on getting
a slice of the technical publications market...." [Article]
- Waxing Techcomm, February 5, 2006 -- Reported issues
with WebWorks Publisher update for FrameMaker 7.2 by Bill
Swallow
[Blog post]
- Intelligent Enterprise, February 1, 2006 -- XML
Content Authoring For the Rest of Us by Bill Trippe
"... Indeed, in some markets and applications, such
as developing technical documentation for aircraft or automobiles,
today's preferred XML tools look and act much like the SGML authoring
tools of 1992. The same products, including Adobe FrameMaker,
Arbortext Epic and B last Radius XMetaL, still dominate. ..."
[Article]
- Yahoo Financial News, January 25, 2006 -- Xyleme
to Demonstrate XML Learning Solutions at London's Learning Technologies
2006 Conference
"... Xyleme's platform can create or capture learning
information developed in multiple formats such as Word and FrameMaker
into a single authoritative XML repository of reusable learning
objects ..." [Press Release]
- Gordon's Tech, January 19, 2006 -- FrameMaker vs.
Pages [Blog post]
- NewsForge, January 16, 2006 -- Review: Conglomerate
XML Editor reaches basic functionality by Bruce Byfield
"... Graphical XML editors generally take one of two
paths. Ones like FrameMaker with SGML provide a tree-like
structure that is often more arcane than editing the raw files.
Others, like XMetal, offer a graphical interface whose resemblance
to a standard word processor can be equally misleading. By contrast,
Conglomerate takes a different approach with a graphical representation
of XML structure that no one could mistake for anything else.
..." [Review]
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