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FrameMaker development - to version 7.2
| Release date | Version 7.0 2002-07 |
Version 7.1 2003 4Q |
Version 7.2 2005-09-12 |
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| User interface | Combination of FM standard and +SGML HTML with JS-support; small enhancements in dialogues Select/deselect All for format im-port; |
Multiple undo for many operations; still little space in input fields | |
| Documentation/ Help | Help is now HTML with JavaScript | Extensive migration guide unstructured to structured FM | |
| OS specifics & fonts | Typical Win installation 125 MB on disk; last Mac release (System 9) ! |
Additional fonts; improved font management (UX) | |
| Document handling | FrameMaker server (WebDAV) for print and PDF publishing (e.g. catalogue publishing) | ||
| Typography | More fonts (+Open Type) in UNIX; Limited UniCode support for XML import/export | Patch 7.2p158 enables two additional codepoints (z-acute and t-caron) to ease handling of central Eurpean languages. | |
| Page layout | Automatic assignment of master pages; re-arrange master pages | ||
| Graphics | SVG (rastered for printing and for PDF); text description for anchored frames (alternate text) | Resize relative to original size; SVG treated as vector | |
| Tables | |||
| Import | PDF 1.4, Illustrator 9/10; Word/Excel import enhanced | PDF 1.5; JPEG 2000; RTF 1.6; MS Office up to XP; Quark ExpressW; PageMakerW | |
| Export, Save | Save as version 6 document; Save As PDF now works correctly; more document information for PDF, tagged PDF | Enabled for Acrobat 6. Standard PDF 1.5 support; Distiller 6 included |
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| Hypertext | |||
| Language | |||
| Variables, references | +8 (=12) Running H/F; additional formatting for date/time variables | ||
| Book operations; generated files | Book operations more user friendly; | ||
| Utilities | |||
| Formulas | |||
| Other | Doc info stored in XMP (extensible meta data platform); more templates | More examples and templates | |
| Structured FM, XML | XML based on SGML information | XML round trip support for Unicode chars with special markers; name spaces; CSS export; Conditional text supported | XSL pre- and post-processing. In addition to processing content with
read/write rules, you can supply XSL transformations that process your
XML files during import or export.
Use a conversion rules table to structure an existing sample document and create a first draft of the EDD that contains basic element definitions and formatting that matches your unstructured template. Starter application of DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) provided. |
| Commercial issues | There are no promotion activities for FrameMaker at Adobe since about 2000. R/D is now performed in India by about 25 people (2002-11) | ||
| User community | 2005-01: about 7700 members on www.frameuser.com and an unknown number of watchers of this list. The number of members on www.frame-user.de currently is: ??? | ||
| Updates Adobe Downloads |
Release: 2002-05-05: 7.0.0.xxx Update 1: 2003-04-25: 7.0.0.578 Update 2: 2005-03-17: 7.0.0.579 |
Release: 2003-12-15: 7.1.0.023 Update 1: 2005-03-17: 7.1.0.116 |
Release: 2005-10-12: 7.2.0.128 Update 1: 2005-12-02: 7.2.0.144 Update 2: 2006-04-10: 7.2.0.158 |