FrameMaker development - to version 11.0

• Work spaces hold a particular setting of menus, tool bars and panels
• Some new buttons in the tool bars;
• Menus for CMS (content management system)
• Text can be moved/inserted by drag and drop, also in structured view; works also for table columns or rows and elements
• Some alerts (e.g. Unresolved crossreferences; Unavailable fonts) can be switched off
• Paste default for external text (Word, RTF) now is text (rather than object).

• Views (WYSIWYG, Author, XML coding) support the collection of work spaces and provide individual menu settings and tool bars for the relevant task. Changes in one view are reflected in another also.
• Unstructured FrameMaker mode provides WYSIWYG view only.
• Quick catalogues with type ahead selection for ¶ and character styles, elements and attributes
• Preferences are consolidated in one dialogue and moved to Edit menu
• Error console replaces the Error log: more diagnostic information provided

• Air Help with access to community help
• MIF and FDK documents not updated.
• A reviewers guide (100 MB PDF) contains many short videos demonstrating the use of new functions.
• More online resources (blog, community forum)

• Help back to standard online HTML help and offline PDF (no access in menus)
• FDK documentation updated
• Start (splash) screen provides web-links to various resources

• Repeat last operation (not the same as Shlomo Perets' F4/F5 function — the Word behaviour is mimicked)
• Auto spell check places a wiggled line beneath wrong words (can be switched off in preferences)
• Conditions built with expressions can get a name for easy handling
• "Absence of definition" (entry in catalogue) ist now also a Format Override; finding and changing of overrides simplified
• The catalogues (paragraph, character, table) can display several subsets: all, used, unused, customised list

• Line numbers (which can be printed also)
• In XML view search/replace supports regular expressions (.net flavour)
• Quick catalogue for conditions

• Imported rich media (e.g. video) may get a poster picture as place holder (rather than just a start button). For Flash the first frame is displayed.
• CMYK handling still cumbersome and not to the needs

• CMYK handling now proper, RGB pdf still limited in width
• Interactive multimedia links for U3D objects
• Links into FLV Flash videos (cue points)
• Object styles analogues to paragraph/character styles
• Creation of hotspots in graphics for hyperlinks (same/other document, URL)

• PDF comment import enhanced (e.g. highlights become background colour)
• Rich media import extended to many types, such as avi, mp4, mov, qt or ram; a picture (poster) can be applied to the static view of media.

• XML and HTML output from an XML document can be created using XSL transformations (XALAN and SAXON parsers are JAXP complient).

• Spelling can now use the Proximity dictionaries (as before) and the Hunspell dictionaries

• Quick catalogue for variables
• System variables for running header/footer extended to a total of 18 (more marker names)

• Severe bug (crash) when creating PDF via Print to PS in unstructured mode => use structured mode for this function (e.g. with multiple page sizes in book)

Additional entries in maker.ini (see Entries maker.ini and others)

• FrameMaker Publishing Server can now output to Kindle reader, multiscreen devices, and native mobile apps. epub format fully supported.
• In the Technical Communication Suite 4 these functions are supported via RoboHelp.

• Support to any standard CMS through providing a set of APIs/Extendscript
• Custom attributes can be added in CMS

• Setup of structured application supported by a wizard
• Tag view enhanced
• Filtering by attribute and attribute editor somewhat enhanced
• XSL processor updated
• View XML in a text editor (View > Vew in xxx)

• XML view with syntax highlighting, auto-completion, element-collaping/expansion, auto indentation
• XPath expressions to locate XML nodes and node sets.
• Hierachical element insert supported by quick catalogue method
• Guided structured authoring with banner text (place holder text)
• Assign IDs to elements

• DITA 1.2 now supported
• S1000D document support with predefined modules
• Simplified switching between RM (Resource Manager) view and Document view

• Configure and generate book output from ditamap
• Roundtripping OLE objects
• Smart paste (paste HTML, MS Word, Excel and Outlook content as DITA content)

full price en version: USD 999; EUR 1149 (+VAT)
update en version: USD 399; EUR 459 (+VAT)

Release:  2011-01-11: 10.0.0.388 (385 was the last beta-build)
Update 1: 2011-06-11: 10.0.1.402
Update 2: 2011-11-16: 10.0.2.419 - CMYK handling corrected