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FrameMaker documentation
See also the list of FM books which I own.
On the search for a specific information I have discovered that some old documentation has not been carried over to the newer FM versions. I have also found that information for the newer FM-versions (≥ 9) is spread into various Adobe web-branches. Hence I took the effort to put all availble information together form both the web and my personal archives.
Getting Started guides: For a while these guides have disappeared. In newer times they have been replaced by videos, even integrated into PDF - which makes a download problematic.
User Guides: Until FM 7.2 you got a thick manual. Starting with FM-8 the box only contains a DVD with the program and help files have been dislocated from your PC to the web. The manual from FrameTechnology for FM-5 was 5cm thick (due to the chaper-page numbering the number of pages is difficult to get). Adobes manual for FM-7 has 660 pages. Obviously some information must have been streamlined - or left out. Some special information in separate online-manuals (e.g. concerning asian languages or customisation of FM) has not been put forwared to newer versions of FM. This happened not earlyier than for FM-12.
Help files Help files have changed their format multiple times. For versions ≥13 (2015) they are identical to the online User Guides. In the online help since FM-8 you can switch in a topic the language. For example, You are in the english topic and want to switch to the same topic in German, just replace the en_US in the URL by de_DE (for French to fr_FR).
Video tutorials: For the newer FM version many video tutorials are available: Adobe video hub; Lynda.com (courses); Matt Sullivan teaching (courses)
My personal FM documentation can be found on this page.
| General | FM-16 (2020) | FM-15 (2019) |
FM-14 (2017) |
FM-13 (2015) |
FM-12 | FM-11 | FM-10 | FM-9 | FM-8 | FM-7.2 | FM-7.1 | FM-7.0 | FM-6 | FM-5.5 | FM-4 | FM-3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Getting Started | pdf (1GB) | pdf (500MB) | ||||||||||||||
| Local Help files | chm |
chm |
chm |
chm |
chm | Winhelp | FM 1) pdf | FM | ||||||||
| Online Help | HTML | HTML | HTML | HTML | Disappeared from Adobe's site | HTML | ||||||||||
| Release notes | pdf FM | |||||||||||||||
| User Guide | pdf (UNIX) | |||||||||||||||
| Quick Reference | pdf (UNIX) | |||||||||||||||
| What's new | Demo(FM) | |||||||||||||||
| Structured FrameMaker | FM-16 (2020) | FM-15 (2019) |
FM-14 (2017) |
FM-13 (2015) |
FM-12 | FM-11 | FM-10 | FM-9 | FM-8 | FM-7.2 | FM-7.1 | FM-7.0 | FM-6 | FM-5.5 | FM-4 | FM-3 |
| Cond. text settings | ||||||||||||||||
| DocBook starter kit | ||||||||||||||||
| DITA | Integration (HTML) | Integration | Starter Kit | |||||||||||||
| SGML Developers Guide | ||||||||||||||||
| Structure Migration Guide | ||||||||||||||||
| Structure Dev. Guide | ||||||||||||||||
| Structure Dev. Reference | ||||||||||||||||
| XML Author | HTML |
UG | ||||||||||||||
| XHTML Starter Kit | ||||||||||||||||
| XML Cookbook | ||||||||||||||||
| XML CSS | ||||||||||||||||
| Special information | FM-16 (2020) | FM-15 (2019) |
FM-14 (2017) |
FM-13 (2015) |
FM-12 | FM-11 | FM-10 | FM-9 | FM-8 | FM-7.2 | FM-7.1 | FM-7.0 | FM-6 | FM-5.5 | FM-4 | FM-3 |
| CJK publishing | Integrated in UG | Integrated in UG for 12.0.3 | MIF 3) | pdf, pdf | ||||||||||||
| Character sets | ||||||||||||||||
| Create Online docs | ||||||||||||||||
| Customise FM | pdf [KLD] | pdf [KLD] | pdf [KLD] | |||||||||||||
| Filters | ||||||||||||||||
| Internals (maker.ini) | pdf 4) | pdf 4) | pdf 4) | pdf 4) | pdf 4) | pdf 4) | pdf 2) | |||||||||
| MIF reference | ||||||||||||||||
| MML reference | ||||||||||||||||
| Multiple platforms | ||||||||||||||||
| Windows only | Sun Solaris, Windows | Macintosh, Unix, Windows | ||||||||||||||
| FDK | FM-16 (2020) | FM-15 (2019) |
FM-14 (2017) |
FM-13 (2015) |
FM-12 | FM-11 | FM-10 | FM-9 | FM-8 | FM-7.2 | FM-7.1 | FM-7.0 | FM-6 | FM-5.5 | FM-4 | |
| Installation Guide | ||||||||||||||||
| Programmers Guide | full | add 4 | add. 3 | add. 2 | add. 1 | initial | ||||||||||
| Reference Guide | ||||||||||||||||
| Sample clients | ||||||||||||||||
| Struct I/O api | ||||||||||||||||
| Other | W'new | Platform 5) | RelNote | |||||||||||||
| ESTK | FM-16 (2020) | FM-15 (2019) |
FM-14 (2017) |
FM-13 (2015) |
FM-12 | FM-11 | FM-10 | ESTK-CC | -CS6 | -CS5 | -CS4 | |||||
| Scripting Guide | ||||||||||||||||
| ExtendScript Toolkit: | abandoned | version 4.0 | version 3.8 | version 3.5 | version 3.0 | |||||||||||
| JS Tools Guide | ||||||||||||||||
Note 1: The files are converted to FM-12 and a book on top is added. Ask the author for the original FM-4 files.
Note 2: Last edit: 2005-03-17 Graham Wideman: document model, program structure,.
Note 3: Example of Kumihan table in MIF. See MIF reference.
Note 4: Reference of entries in maker.ini. See also fmaker65.html.
Note 5: Platform Guide for Windows
Books about FrameMaker which I own
FrameMaker 11
- Sullivan, Matthew; O'Keefe, Sarah (2013): Publishing fundamentals. Unstructured FrameMaker 11. Research Triangle Park, N.C: Scriptorium Press. ISBN 0982811853.
FrameMaker 8
- Klaus Daube (2009): FrameMaker 8 Crash Course. Available online.
FrameMaker 7
- Adobe FrameMaker 7.0. User guide (2002). San Jose, CA: Adobe. Available online at http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/framemaker/FM7_Solutions_Guide.pdf.
- Gulbins, Jürgen (2003): Desktop Publishing mit FrameMaker. Version 6 & 7 für Windows, MacOs, UNIX. With assistance of Angelika Obermayr, Karl Obermayr. 4., überarb. und erw. Aufl. Berlin: Springer (X.media.press).
- Mitschke, Ute; Schulze, Bernhard (2003): FrameMaker 6 + 7. In der Praxis anwenden und beherrschen. München, Boston [u.a.]: Addison-Wesley (Dpi).
- O'Keefe, Sarah; Loring, Sheila A. (2002): FrameMaker 7. The complete reference. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. Available online at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/mh031/2003268519.html / http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/mh031/2003268519.html / http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780072223613.pdf.
- Perets, Shlomo (2004): Using SP TimeSavers, FrameMaker Edition. Kfar-Yona, IL: Eigenverlag.
FrameMaker 6
- Adobe FrameMaker 6.0. User guide (2000). San Jose, CA: Adobe.
- Krüger, Klaus (2002): Adobe FrameMaker 6. Dokumente schneller formatieren, leichter überarbeiten ; Windows, Unix, Mac OS ; [mit 17 Mindmaps]. Bonn: Buchstabenkabinett.
FrameMaker 5
- Adobe FrameMaker 5.5. User Guide (1997). San Jose, CA: Adobe.
- Frame Technology Inc. (1995): Using FrameMaker. Windows and Macintosh. Version 5. San Jose, CA.
- Gulbins, Jürgen; Obermayr, Karl (1999): Desktop Publishing mit FrameMaker 5.5. Für UNIX, MAC OS und Windows ; mit 58 Tabellen. 3. Aufl. Berlin [u.a.]: Springer (Edition Page).
- Mitschke, Ute (1999): Technische Dokumentation mit Adobe FrameMaker 5.5. München [u.a.]: Addison-Wesley.
- Perets, Shlomo (1999): FrameMaker-to-Acobat Advanced Techniques. Course Workbook. Ramat Gan, IL: Eigenverlag. Available online at http://www.microtype.com.
FrameMaker 4
- Jerney, Helena Fernandez; Jerney, John (1994): FrameMaker 4 for UNIX solutions. New York: J. Wiley.
- Johnson, Yvonne (1994): FrameMaker 4. From desktop to print shop. Berkeley: Osborne McGraw-Hill.
- Tolman, Jann (1994): FrameMaker 4 for Windows. Berkeley, Calif.: Peachpit Press (Visual quickstart guide).
FrameMaker 3
- Gulbins, Jürgen (1992): Desktop publishing mit FrameMaker. Mit 281 Abbldungen und 62 Tabellen. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Barcelona, Budapest: Springer.
Other
- Frame Technology Inc. (1991): Using FrameMath. FrameMaker 2.1 for Macintosh. San Jose, CA.
- Frame Technology Inc. (1992): Frame at Work. San Jose, CA.
- Adobe (1992 - 2010): Various items concerning FrameMaker. prospects, reference cards etc.
- I'm proud to own a FrameMaker cup (unfortuantely it broke severely 2019-04 – anyone out there can offer me a good one?):
