Abstract

FrameMaker overview

Structured and unstructured FrameMaker

Components of a structured FrameMaker solution

Starting points

The FrameMaker document model

FrameMaker customization

Language support

Entities

Building document structures

Resources and references

FrameMaker overview

Adobe FrameMaker is a powerful document processor especially suited for long, technical documents, such as reference manuals, user guides, and technical reports. Some feature highlights include:

• Automatic management of page, chapter, and paragraph numbering (such as figure captions)
• Flexible table editor
• Generation of tables of contents and indexes
• Support for cross-references

FrameMaker produces excellent print and PDF output. When combined with XML, you can use FrameMaker as an XML rendering engine, where you input information as completed XML files and output print and PDF. You can also use FrameMaker as an authoring tool, in which case you create content in FrameMaker and then create XML files. In either case, integrating FrameMaker and XML presents significant technical challenges.

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