TravelThePath.com (a website operated by Bright Path Solutions) has made available some Framemaker EDD Bits that you can study to learn how to create EDDs or incorporate directly into your own EDDs.
Why?
Because EDDs are difficult to develop, and we have a lot of experience developing them (for SGML and XML). These are provided to give […]
While Framemaker creates fine indexes for book-length documents, the standard UI for managing index markers is clumsy, both in structured and unstructured Framemaker.
To improve the index marker creation process, EmDEX has created an embedded indexing tool plugin for Framemaker 5.5, 6, 7, 7.1 and 7.2 to enable the dynamic creation of indexes with real-time preview […]
The FreeFramers Wiki was meant to be a Framemaker user resource, but at this point it looks to have gone dormant. Users can’t edit the site (which defeats the purpose of a Wiki, yes?) and the site’s operators don’t seem to be updating it themselves.
We’re tempted to go beyond our original charter of focusing on […]
MadCap Software is obviously out evangelizing for their Flare help authoring tool, trying to get ahead of Adobe’s revamped RoboHelp 6. Back on January 5, the Suncoast (Tampa, FL) chapter of the STC hosted a demo of Blaze by Madcap’s Mike Hamilton, and captured the audio as a podcast.
The demo covers the following topics:
The […]
Scott “The Content Wrangler” Abel passed along word of two upcoming events of interest to Framemaker users:
A 25 January online demo of RoboHelp 6 from Adobe– the product having been released on 18 January;
A Framemaker and RoboHelp demo coming up in Indianapolis, which he passed along on the comp.text.frame Google Group:
TheContentWrangler.com cordially invites you to a […]
Framemaker veteran Shlomo Peretz of www.microtype.com (developer of the Framemaker add-ons TimeSavers and ToolBar Plus Express) has come up with a solution to one of my years-long grievances as a Framemaker user: the bizarre discrepancy between the insertion point position and the position where the cursor is displayed, when working with “View Element Boundaries […]
