Macromedia FrameMaker - 2019 User Guide

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Getting Started With

Adobe FrameMaker (2019 release)

Table of Contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

How to get Adobe FrameMaker (2019 release) .......................................................................................................... 2

Turbo-charge your content creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Powerful 64-bit architecture ....................................................................................................................................................3

Faster file performance ................................................................................................................................................................ 3

Interactive real-time progress bar ........................................................................................................................................ 4

Enhanced image handling ........................................................................................................................................................6

High-quality images .......................................................................................................................................................................6

New image transparency support .........................................................................................................................................7

Support for colored icons ...........................................................................................................................................................8

Out-of-the-box SharePoint 2016 support ........................................................................................................................ 8

Quick access to the Welcome Screen .............................................................................................................................. 10

Slick and powerful Welcome Screen .................................................................................................................................11

New Duden dictionary support ............................................................................................................................................. 11

Interactive HTML5 dialogs for plug-ins ........................................................................................................................... 12

All-new platform ............................................................................................................................................................................ 13

New Windows-based File Open dialog .......................................................................................................................... 13

One-click image resizing ........................................................................................................................................................... 13

WebP and Icon image support ............................................................................................................................................. 15

Faster and lighter setup .............................................................................................................................................................16

From PDF to Responsive HTML5. Accelerate your publishing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Modern PDF engine ......................................................................................................................................................................17

WYSIWYG color output ..............................................................................................................................................................19

Password protected PDFs ........................................................................................................................................................19

All-new PDF engine ..................................................................................................................................................................... 21

Customize DITA templates for PDF output ..................................................................................................................22

Greater content accessibility ................................................................................................................................................. 23

Getting started with XML/DITA has never been easier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25

Faster XML file handling ...........................................................................................................................................................25

Effortless EDD creation .............................................................................................................................................................26

Smoother DITA authoring experience ...........................................................................................................................26

DITA-OT 3.0 support ................................................................................................................................................................... 28

XSLT 3.0 support ............................................................................................................................................................................ 28

Enhanced Packager ..................................................................................................................................................................... 28

Additional resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Version comparison chart ........................................................................................................................................................ 31

Product page ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 31

User guides and Support pages ........................................................................................................................................... 31

Legal notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33

Introduction

Adobe FrameMaker (2019 release) is fast, powerful, and future-ready authoring and publishing solution. With an all-new 64-bit architecture, you can significantly boost productivity with more memory for long, complex documents. The new image processing engine provides support for new image formats and maintains image transparency. The all-new PDF engine improves the publishing speed anywhere between 35% to 65%. You now have more control over PDF settings, which includes setting marks, bleeds, creating password-protected PDFs and more. If this not enough, boost productivity with multiple enhancements in XML workspace, structure view, breadcrumbs and more.

This guide presents you an overview of the new features and workflows in FrameMaker (2019 release). A large number of narrated videos make it easy for you to become familiar with the changes in the UI and help you get started with this release.

Besides this Getting Started Guide, you will find the FrameMaker User Guide and many other resources at adobe.com. A collection of key FrameMaker resources is presented in the Addi-

tional resources section of this guide.

Introduction

How to get Adobe FrameMaker (2019 release)

To try FrameMaker before buying, download a fully functional, 30-day complimentary trial version. Learn about the various ways to buy Adobe FrameMaker (2019 release) here. If you want to purchase a new FrameMaker license or already have a license of an earlier version of FrameMaker, see the following table for special pricing.

Note: The table displays base prices. Actual price can vary depending on the country and currency of purchase, product language, and applicable local taxes.

*Base pricing in international regions

± Upgrade to FrameMaker (2019 release) from Adobe FrameMaker XML Author is included as part of upgrade from FrameMaker (2015 release) or older. For Enterprise customers it would be taken on case to case basis.

‡ Cancellation fee for annual subscription plan is 50% of the remaining contract obligation, if

canceled after 14 days. For more information, visit the FrameMaker website.

Pricing for

FrameMaker (2019 release)

USD EUR AUD YEN

New user $999 €1,324 $1,324 ¥131,500

Upgrade from

FrameMaker (2017 release)

$399 €529 $529 ¥52,500

FrameMaker (2015 release)±

$599 €794 $794 ¥78,900

Older version of Technical Communication Suite to (2019 release)

$1,199 €1,199 $1,199 ¥158,000

One year subscription plan‡

$29.99/month per user

€39.99/month per user

$39.99/month per user

¥3,900/mo nth per user

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Powerful 64-bit architecture

FrameMaker (2019 release) now comes with 64-bit system support. You can install FrameMaker on a 64-bit system and leverage better memory management, faster file operations, and faster publishing capabilities.

With the limitation of memory allocation and usage in a 32-bit system, working with large documents was a big challenge. This challenge will no longer be an obstruction. Install FrameMaker on a 64-bit system and enjoy the faster than ever performance with you favorite authoring and publishing software.

If you still love the old 32-bit FrameMaker, you can download it from Adobe.com.

Faster file performance

Experience faster performance while working with files or publishing your content. The core architecture of FrameMaker has been enhanced to give you much faster file operations. For example, your large DITA documents containing a lot of cross-references take 30%-40% lesser time to open. For unstructured documents with a large number cross-references, this improvement is anywhere between 10%-20%. Also, saving a bunch of files is much faster.

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Interactive real-time progress bar

Publishing a large set of documents in FrameMaker could take from a minute to much longer. Now you won’t have to wait longer to publish a large set documents or a book. You will experience almost 39% of improvement in the publishing time for generating PDF output.

Interactive real-time progress bar

The progress bar in FrameMaker contained only a blue bar that moved from start to finish without giving any details. The progress bar is no longer a simple blue-colored, start to finish bar. Now, you have the real-time information available on the progress bar.

The informative progress bar shows the status of the task that is being performed currently in FrameMaker. For example, when you update a book, the progress bar displays status like opening a file, processing a file, generating index file, and so on. Similarly, when you are running a publishing task, the progress bar shows you what processing is being performed on the files, such as file opening, conversion process, application of some transformations, and so on.

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Interactive real-time progress bar

The following screenshots are captured at different stages of saving, updating, and publishing tasks.

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Enhanced image handling

Working on documents containing hundreds and thousands of images had its own challenges. You wo ul d have faced i ssue s l ik e:

• Lag while scrolling pages.

• Lag while inserting multiple images at the same time.

With the major enhancements in the image handling process in FrameMaker, you will no longer face any such lags. You can now scroll through a document containing hundreds of images much smoother and faster. Also, you will now be able to import multiple images at the same time without any issue.

High-quality images

Working with high-quality image format like SVG was a big challenge in FrameMaker. The image quality while authoring was different from the final published output. There were issues of color loss and pixelation. At times, even scrolling through pages containing heavy JPEG images was slow.

FrameMaker (2019 release) eliminates all issues you faced while working with high-quality images. The images are imported smoothly and are also published in high quality. This improvement has been made possible by shifting from the traditional image processing tech-

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New image transparency support

nology to the latest technologies from Adobe’s leading image processing applications. With enhancements in the image processing capabilities, you get the best possible quality of SVG and JPEG images while authoring and in the final published output.

New image transparency support

Having images with transparent background is a very common scenario. However, when you published any such image from FrameMaker, the image’s background transparency was lost. FrameMaker’s older image processing engine would replace the transparency with white color. This issue was more prominent in places where the background color of the image placeholder (like the colored table cell or colored body page) was not white.

With the current release of FrameMaker, all your transparent images will publish as is. FrameMaker will retain an image’s transparency at the time of authoring as well as when you publish it. This will give a much better look-and-feel to your published output — be it a PDF or responsive HTML5 output.

Support for colored icons

Due to high customer demand, FrameMaker (2019 release) reintroduces colored icons. The colored icons have been added in the main toolbar and various pods. Using the colored icons improves the accessibility of FrameMaker's user interface and gives a much brighter and color-

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Out-of-the-box SharePoint 2016 support

ful UI experience. You can still switch between colored and grayscale icons from the Preferences dialog.

Out-of-the-box SharePoint 2016 support

Whether you are using on-premises SharePoint 2016 or SharePoint Online, FrameMaker gives you easy access to both the systems. You can easily access your documents on a SharePoint

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