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FrameMaker in the Press
Current
Items | 2007
| 2006 | 2005
| 2004 | 2003
| 2002 | 2001
- Writer's Resource Center, December 31, 2007 --
Technical Writing Part Four: Desktop Publishing Tools
"... While FrameMaker is a powerful, useful program for
technical writers, it is not without drawbacks. FrameMaker is
harder to use than a word processor and requires a different,
more systematic approach to document creation. Learning to use
all of the features takes time and commitment. ..." [article]
- cap studio, December 18, 2007 -- FrameMaker 8.0.2
"... Adobe is considering another patch for FrameMaker 8
and [the] expected time frame is 1Q 2008 ..." [blog post]
See also:
"We are considering another patch for FrameMaker 8. I expect
the patch to be available in 1Q 2008" (Adobe
Technical Communication team blog)
- WritersUA, December 11, 2007 -- What's New in Adobe
RoboHelp 7? by Rob Houser
"... RoboHelp 7 includes some additional items in a FrameMaker
document that can now be imported into RoboHelp, but there aren't
as many of these as I would have expected. ... While Adobe took
a small step towards product integration with RoboHelp 7, they
still have a long way to go to achieve true integration. We need
more than products that launch other family products easily.
We need more than products that can do one-way import of content..."
[review]
See also:
Adventures with the New Technical Communication
Suite from Adobe (mostly RoboHelp 7 and Captivate) (I'd Rather
Be Writing)
- Tech Writer Voices, December 10, 2007 -- Technical
Communication Suite from Adobe — Interview with RJ Jacquez
"RJ Jacquez, senior product evangelist at Adobe.com, talks
about the new Technical Communication Suite from Adobe, which
includes RoboHelp 7, Captivate 3, Acrobat 3D version 8, and Framemaker
8. ..." [podcast]
- EContent, December 4, 2007 -- DITA: Does One Size
Fit All? by Bob Doyle
"...Adobe added a DITA application pack accessory to FrameMaker
7.2 and have now integrated DITA completely in release 8. Most
tech writers know this venerable desktop publishing application,
but just a small percentage are of them are doing structured
FrameMaker, which has supported SGML/DocBook for years, and now
supports DITA. Although Adobe came a bit late to the DITA party
(they only recently added the UNICODE support needed for multiple
language documents), they have made DITA a major part of FrameMaker
and the new integrated Technical Communications Suite. ..."
[article]
- Adobe Technical Communication team blog, November
22, 2007 -- FrameMaker 8.0.1 Available!
"FrameMaker 8.0.1 patch is live now. This patch has fixes
for several reported problems." ... [blog post]
See also:
FrameMaker Annoyances: Bugs &
Issues
- PC Pro, November 14, 2007 -- Product review: Adobe
FrameMaker 8 by Tom Arah
"...Verdict: New support for rich media and Unicode, but
FrameMaker is still crying out for an interface overhaul. ..."
[review]
- A Living Text, November 13, 2007 -- FrameMaker
8
"... I would think that folks from Adobe who make both Frame
and Acrobat would be able to master these programs interfacing
with each other, but it’s not looking that way. In this
day and age when everything from Apple Pages to Google Docs to
OpenOffice Writer instantly generate PDF’s at a click, it
is hard to believe that a major software release from Adobe is
so crippled. ..." [blog post]
- STC Southwestern Ontario, November, 2007 -- FrameMaker
8.0 Product Review by Bernard Aschwanden
"...Worth the cost? To be seen. There are specific features
that make it worth the upgrade cost on their own. If these are
features you will use, then go for it. Without a compelling reason
to upgrade you may want to wait to see what your evolving publishing
needs are and make the call down the road. ..." [review]
- Trusted Reviews, October 26, 2007 -- Product review:
Adobe FrameMaker 8 by Simon Williams
"...FrameMaker 8 is an excellent document creation tool
with some very worthwhile improvements in the latest version
..." [review]
- PRWeb, September 25, 2007 -- Adobe Unveils Technical
Communication Suite
"The suite includes Adobe RoboHelp 7, a major upgrade
to Adobe's help system and knowledge base authoring tool, as
well as Adobe FrameMaker 8, Adobe Captivate 3 and Adobe Acrobat
3D Version 8 software. " ... [press release]
See also:
Cross Product Integration : The Journey begins
| Adobe Tech Comm Suite is here! | Adobe Tech Comm Suite is Not a
Bundle (Adobe Technical Communication team blog)
Introducing: Adobe's Software for the Technical
Writer (eWeek)
Not-So-Creative Suite (Palimpsest)
Adobe releases
Tech Comm Suite (monkeyPI)
Reactions to the TechComm Suite (Palimpsest)
Adobe’s Technical Communication Suite announced
(just write click)
Clarification on Adobe's Technical Communication
Suite (waxing techcomm)
- Communications from DMN, September 17, 2007 --
A peek at FrameMaker 8.0
"This week, we look at FrameMaker 8.0. And, believe it or
not, we actually like it. ..." [podcast]
- Yahoo! Finance, August 21, 2007 -- Leximation and
Silicon Publishing release DITA plugin for Adobe FrameMaker
"Leximation and Silicon Publishing today announced the
release of DITA-FMx, a plugin for Adobe FrameMaker that provides
extended support for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture
(DITA)." ... [press release]
See also:
DITA-FMx - DITA plugin for FrameMaker (ITauthor
blog post)
- Palimpsest, August 9, 2007 -- FrameMaker 8: First
impressions
"... The rich media integration is interesting. Attribute-based
conditions are a must-have for any serious structured workflow.
Likewise, the addition of Unicode support remedies a serious
defect." ... [blog post]
- BusinessWire, July 23, 2007 -- Adobe Delivers Major
Upgrade to FrameMaker: Rich Media Enhancements and Unicode Support
Anchor FrameMaker 8 Release
"... Relied on by technical authors, documentation specialists,
trainers and professionals that require high-quality long document
multi-channel output from a single source, FrameMaker 8 builds
on a rich product heritage that has powered the delivery of complex
documents worldwide. " ... [press release]
See also:
Adobe
Technical Communication FAQ comes to Fruition (Group Wellesley
Wire)
- PRWeb, June 13, 2007 -- Bluestream Releases XDocs
1.1 DITA-enabled XML Content Management System
"... XML Editor Interoperability -- XDocs can work with
any XML editor currently on the market; however, support for
XMetaL has been enhanced. (configurable conref and Navigation
link insertion, and auto scaling of images, to mention a few).
Extended support for FrameMaker 8.0 is also in the works. "
... [press release]
- Knowledge@Wharton, May 16, 2007 -- Shantanu Narayen
on Adobe's Future Direction: Product Strategy for the Next Generation
of the Web
"... Let's take the professional page layout market, for
example. While InDesign is the center of focus, the features
to do large document publishing and XML publishing are more advanced
in FrameMaker. So we expect our customers to use FrameMaker for
that purpose. ... But, yes, it is our goal to continue to make
sure that we don't leave any customer behind. For a number of
customers who have adopted a product like FrameMaker, we will
continue to invest in it." ... [interview with Shantanu Narayen, President/COO
at Adobe Systems]
- Adobe Technical Communication team blog, May 7, 2007
-- FrameMaker Next: Here it is...
"I have been waiting for today... the day we would announce
that the new FrameMaker is finally here. The FrameMaker Beta 1
is already under testing by a select group of FrameMaker experts.
The initial reviews are very encouraging." ... [blog post]
See also:
Adobe's RJ Jacques demo at the STC Conference
(report by Russ Ward)
- Core Dump, May 2, 2007 -- Hell is freezing over:
Adobe to preview FrameMaker 8
"Hell has started to freeze over. Adobe has announced that
it will preview features from the next releases of FrameMaker,
RoboHelp, and Captivate at the STC Conference in Minneapolis
later this month." ... [blog post]
- Yahoo! Finance, March 26, 2007 -- Astoria Software
Joins JustSystems' Partner Program to Expand Support for XML
Authoring Tools
"Union of Astoria and XMetaL to Create Powerful, End-to-End
Solution for XML Content Authoring and Management for Technical
Documentation to the DITA Standard. ... Astoria currently integrates
with PTC Arbortext. The company will announce support for Adobe
FrameMaker and MS Word later in 2007." ... [press release]
- PR.com, March 20, 2007 -- Octagon Research Solutions,
Inc., Announces the Release of Data JumpStart
"... Octagon’s CDISC SDTM compatible Data JumpStart
offering is a collection of documents, libraries and templates
that facilitate institutionalization of data management standards
and provides everything a company will need to deploy data standards
across an organization and to outsourcing partners... Data JumpStart
includes: ...Annotated Case Report Forms with SDTM variable names
(delivered in Adobe FrameMaker or PDF format) . " ... [press release]
- PR Web, February 21, 2007 -- CMS Watch and The
Rockley Group Form Strategic Alliance
"CMS Watch and The Rockley Group Inc. today announced that
they have established a strategic alliance to create a new CMS
Watch report evaluating Content Component Management technology.
... The report will also evaluate major structured authoring
tools, including JustSystems XMetaL, PTC Arbortext Editor, Adobe
FrameMaker, Microsoft Word, and In.Vision Xpress Author."
... [press release]
- Yahoo! Finance, February 20, 2007 -- FML Announces
PatternStream(R) Software Version 2.3 Release
"This upgrade includes a full range of dynamic graph capabilities
and improved XML importation, processing, and generation capabilities.
Other functional enhancements simplify automated publishing setup
and control. " ... [press release]
- Core Dump, February 16, 2007 -- FrameMaker Has
a Future, Adobe Says
... "I have one comment. Start with the easy fixes -- take
a look at Tim Murray's 'Frame Wish and Bug List' on the FrameMaker QuickHelp site and fix the issues
raised there. That'd be a really good way of showing us that
Adobe is committed to FrameMaker, and its users, who have put
up with a lot over the last decade." ... [blog post]
See also:
FrameMaker Lives! (Carl Young's AcroViews,
February 4, 2007)
FrameMaker alive and well, Adobe says (Macworld:
February 7, 2001)
- Yahoo! Finance, February 13, 2007 -- MadCap Software
Introduces Content Authoring Industry Firsts in Language Support
and Single-Sourcing With Flare 2.5
... "Flare allows users to import content authored in Microsoft
Word, Adobe FrameMaker, or HTML; RoboHelp projects; and even
HTML Help projects -- and convert it to the XML format."
... [press release]
- left.subtree.org, January 25, 2007 -- Converting
MIF to XML
... "There's a great perl module on CPAN for working with
MIF files called FrameMaker::MifTree. It's a subclass of Tree::DAG_Node
and provides a nice interface for modifying the in-memory tree
structure and dumping back out into MIF." ... [blog post]
See also:
Keith’s Blog (February 3, 2007)
- Tech Writer Voices, January 5, 2007 -- Mike Hamilton
Gives Flare Demo to the Suncoast Chapter
(10:40 into the podcast) "... Then about six months
later was the big one. The newest release in the RoboHelp family
in years, by far, was something called RoboHelp for FrameMaker.
We had put I don't know many tens of thousands of man's hours,
of people's hours, into that product. It was launched, it was
very successful. It was exceeding its sales targets for the first
two months, and then out of the blue, it was just wiped out,
which made no sense to me. It's like, if we were going to do
to this, why didn't we make this decision a few months ago? But
the reason that we were finally given was that, you know, it
does not matter that it's beating its sales targets, it would
be too much of a distraction to train a new technical support
staff, so therefore we don't want to have a new product on the
market at this time. Now, it didn't make a lot of sense to me
because it was going to be the same technical support staff that
was already supporting RoboHelp. In hindsight, there may have
been some talk at upper levels of what the future held for us
that I just wasn't aware of at that time..." [podcast]
[PS. Back in November 5, 2004, Mike Hamilton, then RoboHelp
Product Manager for Macromedia, posted the following to the HATT list: "As to RoboHelp for FrameMaker,
I was sad to see it go, but there can be no comparison to that
product and RoboHelp Office. RoboHelp Office is tried and true,
has been around since the beginnings of WinHelp, and holds the
vast majority of the market (this quarter we shipped more units
of RoboHelp than any other quarter in our history going back
to 1992). In contrast, RoboHelp for FrameMaker was a new product,
going not into a market but a sub-sub-niche of a market. As eHelp
this product was a small gamble, but for Macromedia this one
just didn't make sense. To put this in perspective, even at it's
peak RoboHelp for FrameMaker didn't even approach a thirtieth
of RoboHelp's success. If RoboHelp for FrameMaker had made better
revenue numbers, then I'm sure it would still be here...but it
didn't. On the other hand the revenue from RoboHelp Office makes
a significant contribution to Macromedia bottom line (and before
you ask, no I can't share specific numbers)."]
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