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Discussion lists & forums | FrameMaker-related tools | FrameScript | Structured FrameMaker | Database Publishing | MIF

Discussion lists & forums

• FrameUsers site and discussion list (you can also read/search messages without subscribing)
• Free Framers discussion list: "a low-volume mutual support list run strictly as an old-fashioned non-commercial list by Omni Systems"
  To subscribe, send a message to majordomo@omsys.com with just the line subscribe framers with no name after it, and no subject or signature.If you prefer the digest format, use subscribe framers-digest instead | Archive
• Adobe User-to-User Forums
• news://comp.text.frame -- a FrameMaker newsgroup
• Free Framers Wiki (a Wiki is a collaborative community effort that is created by its readers)
• FrameSGML: a Structured FrameMaker mailing list -- sharing tips, techniques and ideas on creating SGML/XML applications.
• FrameMakerDITA
• FrameIndexers -- discussion of indexing in general, and specifically indexing with FrameMaker and related utilities
• FrameScript discussion list
• FrameMaker Developer's Forum
• German FrameMaker Users
  
• MicroType's FrameMaker-to-Acrobat discussion list (limited to TimeSavers users, seminar participants & interspondence students)
• MicroType's FrameMaker Template Design discussion list (limited to seminar participants)
• MicroType's Single Sourcing with FrameMaker discussion list (limited to seminar participants)
  
  

  FrameMaker-related tools

• CudSpan, Chris Despopoulos -- all free: PgfWhopper, MarkerWorker, TocBreaker, HuntOverrides, BookLooker, RefIcons, DoBatch, TreePrint
  
• SYSTEC Toolbox -- basic package (free) lets you delete unused paragraph, character, table & cross-reference formats, user variables and colors (in documents or books)
  
• mif2go (RTF/HTML conversion), by Omni Systems
  
• RoboMIF -- saves MIF files for the entire book, or MIF files for all open FrameMaker documents, in a folder named "MIF for RoboHelp" (created under the current document or book folder). To install the plug-in, unzip into the Plugins folder (typically C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.x\fminit\Plugins) and then restart FrameMaker. (To use the plug-in, select RoboHelp > Save MIF. The output MIF is the same as you would get if you Save as MIF manually -- the plug-in uses FrameMaker's built-in MIF export).
• MIF Muncher -- parses FrameMaker-generated MIF files to create reports for the formats used in the files (written by Jerry Muelver, functionality designed by Sheila Carlisle)
• Bruce Foster -- Archive, BookInfo, ImpGraph, MifSave, RtfSave
• Silicon Prairie -- AutoText, IndexTools, Character Tools, LEP Tools, Master Page Tools, Outline Tools, Paragraph Tools, Alert Tool
  ("FrameMaker Add-On Makes Indexing Less of a Chore", PDF: 284K -- a review of Index Tools Professional v1.2 by Larry S. Bonura)
  
• IXGen (indexing/marker management utility), by Frank Stearns Associates
  ("IXGen: Indexing Tool for Frame", PDF: 392K -- a review by Anne C. Barrett)
  
• emDEX -- Embedded Indexing for FrameMaker
  ("Embedded Indexing: Indexing in FrameMaker Without Tearing Your Hair Out", describes emDEX and IXGen functions, PDF: 335K -- by Lucie Haskins)
• Sundorne Communications -- IndexRef, ListDocs, SetPrint
• Leximation -- BookVars, FileTools, MarkerTools, MIFML, MyHelp
• zenserve -- Marker Madness, Marker Madness TimeSavers Edition, Text Store, RSS News Viewer, Control Panel, Book Store
  
• Bache.com -- XtraBookUtils (Windows/Mac/Unix), TableUtils (Mac) and more
• Also see:
  • Lin Sims’ List of Windows FrameMaker Freeware and Shareware (PDF: 92K / 6 pages)
  • Leximation's Tool Search

  FrameScript

• FrameScript
• itl Script Pool (free download): format overrides, graphic scaling/settings, table navigation, book navigation, sorting, side head alignment, line counter, hyphenation, color conversion and more
  
• Carmen Publishing -- Plug-ins and Scripts for FrameScript | FrameScript Tutorials by Rick Quatro
  (TableCleaner, PageLabeler, RenameFilesInBook, RunaroundNone and more)
  
• Free FrameScripts (GenDex, BookMover, BookReport) by Martin R. Smith, GolehTek
• FrameScripts (Line numbering, Link master page to marker) by Marcus Streets
• FrameScript Resources by Philip Sharman
• cap studio -- Michael Müller-Hillebrand
  

  Structured FrameMaker

• Sourcerer: Single Sourcing for Structured FrameMaker -- Advantica
  
• West Street Consulting -- FrameSLT Lite/Full, XRef Wizard, Structure Tools, InsetPlus
• DataHansa -- Tree Help
• Publishing Systems
  

  Database Publishing

• Axial InfoSolutions -- Automated database publishing tools & solutions
  

MIF

• MIF Browser -- Graham Wideman's FrameMaker Topics Page
• mif.pl, Perl library that parses MIF, by Earl Hood (Earl's Perl's)
• MIF File Editor (MIFFEd) by David E. Cortesi