Adobe Framemaker 9

Author and publish technical documentation

Adobe® FrameMaker® 9 software is a powerful authoring and publishing solution for technical communicators. Take advantage of an intuitive user interface, unified workflows, and a template-based authoring environment to simplify content delivery and conform to organizational requirements for consistency and branding.

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Product Description

Top features in FrameMaker 9

* Fully integrated authoring environment
* Full support for DITA standards
* Special object management for books and DITA maps
* New, intuitive user interface
* Book and structured book capabilities
* Rich media object incorporation
* Out-of-the-box CMS integration support
* Long-document and pristine PDF output support
* Importing of comments from PDF files
* Windows® CMYK support

Easily author and publish
Easily create, manage, and publish Adobe® FrameMaker® content, helping to improve productivity and reduce errors and rework.

New, intuitive user interface
Work more efficiently through a completely redesigned user experience. Use floating toolbars and control bars, dock your most frequently used dialog boxes for quick access, and create workspaces customized to your workflow.

Fully integrated authoring environment
Create, edit, and publish technical content with powerful features for automatic numbering, cross-referencing, tables of contents, indexes, books, and more. Automate formatting via templates, and easily integrate tables, graphics, and images.

Out-of-the-box CMS integration support
Smoothly integrate your content with your organization's content management system (CMS) through enhanced WebDAV support. Work efficiently in structured authoring and DITA workflow environments.

Long-document and pristine PDF output support
Easily create PDF output for long documents and books. Aggregate topic-based, structured, and unstructured content including XML and DITA files, and generate tables of contents, indexes, and pristine PDF output with CMYK support.

Windows CMYK support
Publish composite PDF objects that support Windows® CMYK for better print capabilities.

Importing of comments from PDF files
Easily gather and incorporate review comments from subject matter experts and other colleagues. Use the Track Text Edits feature and a new user interface to efficiently manage review processes.

Readily build content
Quickly and easily create standards-compliant content without the use of third-party tools.

Special object management for books and DITA maps
Easily view, navigate, and edit documents through new, dockable dialog boxes. Work more efficiently with markers, variables, fonts, conditional text, graphics, cross-references, and text insets.

End-to-end DITA support
Manage hierarchical documents through enhanced DITA support that includes new DITA map and bookmap capabilities. Benefit from support for xrefs, conrefs, nontext elements, cross-references, DITA relationship tables and attributes, and DITAVAL filtering of output for conditional processing.

Full support for DITA standards
Take advantage of DITA 1.1 support, including Bookmap, Indexing, and Glossary specifications. FrameMaker 9 also supports the DITA 1.2 Learning and Training Content Specialization (beta) specification for developing compelling training content.

Rich media object incorporation
Create compelling online content by incorporating 3D models, rich Adobe Flash® Player compatible animations, and simulations created with Adobe Captivate® software. Generate Adobe PDF files with live 3D models.

Book and structured book capabilities
Employ a new user interface for books, as well as tools for hierarchical books and books within books. Incorporate XML files and other structured FrameMaker documents, and reference DITA maps or bookmaps.

Powerful, scalable single sourcing
Effortlessly single source variations of the same document for different channels and purposes. Build and use complex Boolean expressions to define output filters in topic-based, structured, and unstructured modes.

XML support

Use XML schemas instead of DTDs to define the structure of your content. Preserve comments, variables, and conditional text when importing and exporting structured content and migrating XML content.

System Requirements

Windows

* 1.0GHz or faster processor
* Microsoft® Windows® XP with Service Pack 2 (Service Pack 3 recommended) or Windows Vista® with Service Pack 1 (certified for 32-bit editions)
* 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
* 1.1GB of available hard-disk space
* DVD-ROM drive
* 1,024x768 screen resolution