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FrameMaker development - to version 9.0
| Release date | Version 8.0 (8p236) 2007-07-31 |
Version 9.0 (9p196 - demo version) 2009-01-20 |
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| User interface | General appearance of dialogues not changed, object names in Unicode; Open documents can be accessed by tabs; icons on toolbar and palettes modernised. UI localisation and documentation in English, French, German and Japanese. | Designed for 1024x768 pix screens |
| Documentation/ Help | Printed book not included in delivery (also in the future). Compiled HTML-WinHelp (.chm) | Offline version PDF (Usere Guide) in Acrobat 9 due to some animations; online version in Air. Printed book to be ordered separately. |
| OS specifics & fonts | Windows 2000, XP and Vista™; Sun Solaris™ 8, 9, or 10. Installation requires activation | Windows XP and Vista only (no more Unix) |
| Document handling | Edit tracking (highlicht, accept and reject changes). Handling of text coditions enhanced with logical operations. |
Variables, markers, cross references, insets (referenced files) and conditions are available in a permanent list. (bottom pod). Instant jump to a page or line by number; first & last page. "Go to Insertion Point" after scrolling etc. eases navigation. |
| Typography | Unicode support for left-to-right scripts. Virtual font usage from FM-7 and before are converted. | Virtual fonts are not recognised any more |
| Page layout | Conditional output enhanced (condition tags with boolean expressions, better colouring of variants) | |
| Graphics | 9 additional standard colours; buttons in graphic palette rearranged | Referenced graphics in list of bottom pod; tools palette can be arranged vertically or horizontally. Buttons rearranged. CMYK support |
| Tables | ||
| Import | Word 2007, Excel 2007, 3D (U3D) Acrobat, Flash animations, simulations created by Captivate. | Comments from tagged PDF |
| Export, Save | PDF can contain rich media (3D, Flash) - Windows only; PDF bookmarks are UNICODE capable. | Save to PDF uses the CMYK colour model by default. |
| Hypertext | ||
| Language | Spell check and hyphenation added for Baltic (Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian), CE-languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, Rumanian, Slovak, Slovenian) as well as Greek, Russian and Turkish; Index sorts not correct in all respects (table needs to be adapted as before) totalling 24 languages/variants. | |
| Variables, references | System variables for sections and subsections added; all variables listed in bottom pod | |
| Book operations; generated files | Book window is a pod to the left. Books can contain folders and sections, even books or non-FM documents. Items can be excluded from publication (print, PDF gen.) |
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| Utilities | FrameMaker 8 no longer includes WebWorks Publisher from Quadralay | Installation option for RoboScreenCapture. |
| Formulas | - | - |
| Other | WebDAV support extended (IPv6 URLs) | |
| Structured FM, XML |
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| DITA, DocBook | Prebuilt DITA application included | Full support of DITA 1.1 |
| Commercial issues |
full price en version: USD 899, EUR 1'188 |
full price en version: USD 999, EUR 1367 (excl. VAT) update en version: USD 399, EUR 495 (excl. VAT) (with a USD/EUR ratio of about 0.75 (feb 2009) Europeans pay about 1.9 the price for US residents). |
| User community | Adobe user forum; www.frameuser.com; www.frameuser.com | |
| Updates Adobe Downloads |
Release: 2008-07-20: 8.0.0.236 |
Release: 2009-01-19: 9.0.0.196 Update 1: 2009-03-17: 9.0.1.230 Update 1: 2009-05-05: 9.0.2.237 Update 1: 2009-09-17: 9.0.3.250 Update 1: 2010-06-30: 9.0.4.255 |