FrameMaker development - to version 16.0

• Support for high resolution displays enhanced
• Additional categories in Preferences
• Coloured icons (after all I could convince Adobe)
• Cahnge in terminolgy from Palettes and Pods to Panels.

• New design of Welcome screen (IMHO wasting precious space)
• Preferences: Indication of variables by highlighting
• App icon is now SVG with round corner, somewhat darker colour

• Help > Third Party plug-ins/add-ons leads to Adobe Partners

• Learn section in Welcome Screen pepped up

• Only 64 bit version for Windows (support for 32 bit and Windows 7 dropped)
• Adobe libraries and various Open Source libraries updated
• No support of Win 7 any more
• Update 4 also working in Windows 11

• Windows 10 or 11 (64 bit version only)
• Maximum supported screen resolution: 4K (3480 x 2160 at 150% scale, 8.3 megapixels, aspect ratio 16:9)

• Navigation pane for document (outline)
• Utility document splitter

• Additional replacements: Object Style Tag to, Text of Marker to
• Context menu for items in Navigation pane

• To Sentence Case

• Right indent for last line of paragraph

• Image handling enhanced
• Include YouTube videos in unstructured, DITA and LwDITA documents
• Insert rich media with DITA1.3 & LwDITA
• Support for Flash (FLV, SWF) dropped

• Table commands for Delete Rows, Delete Columns

• Convert body row(s) to Header/Footer row(s)
• Additional selections in context menu
• Different shading for Header and Footer rows

• Own main menu for Review with clearer user guidance
• Host Review PDF on Adobe's Document Cloud (TCS only)

• Generate PDF/An and PDF/X compliant PDFs
• Embed reference PDFs within a PDF
• Greater content accessibility for PDFs by AI supported tagging
• HTML output with new engine
• HTML5 output enhanced

• Improved quality of graphics in PDF output ^*) Enhancements for PDF creation is only done for the PDFL route, not via Distiller.

• Hunspell dictionary for more languages
• 'Smart quotes' are now language specific and configurable
• Pre-segmented XLIFF for easier translation

• Hunspell now also for German new reform

• New book variable: (total) Page Count
• Indication of variables by highlighting

Utilities, maker.ini, scripting

• Document Splitter to chunk large documents into chapters

• Footnotes can now be kept on same page as reference

• Integration with Adobe Experience Manager (enhanced)

• AEM connector performance improved

• New tree view for XML authoring
• Simplified view merged with WYSIWYG view
• Customised environments for simplified XML authoring (enhanced)
• XML code view (enhanced)
• EDD enhancements: import of CSS

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• Out-of-the-box LwDITA support (beta)
• CSS3 import into EDD
• Smoother import of Word documents to DITA map
• Import of Markdown to structured DITA content
• Simultaneous Document and Tree view for DITA maps
• DITA-OT 3.X support (enhanced)
• Keyspace Manager (enhanced)
• DITA PDF publishing : Output templates & Granular settings

• Text search performance improved
• Faster DITA to PDF publishing

Commercial issues

Seee Note

No perpetual licenses any more!
From now on only subscriptions are available:
Yearly subscription: USD 360, CHF 420
Monthly subscription: USD 30, CHF 36

Release:  2020-07-14: 16.0.0.754
Update 1: 2020-11-11: 16.0.1.817
Update 2: 2021-06-02: 16.0.2.916
Update 3: 2021-09-14: 16.0.3.979
Update 4: 2022-02-04: 16.0.4.1062 validated for Win-11
Update 5: 2023-01-10: 16.0.5.1096

Release:  2022-09-29: 17.0.0.226
Update 1: 2023-01-06: 17.0.1.305
Update 2: 2023-05-29: 17.0.2.432