Leximation offers an array of Framemaker plugins to automate or streamline a wide array of tasks techwriters often wind up performing:
BookVars - Manage FrameMaker variables at the “book” level. Define multiple variable groups and easily switch between them by updating the variables in all files. Allows you to sync up the variable definitions in all […]
FMPython integrates a Python interpreter in Framemaker, so that you can write Python scripts to automate Framemaker operations. Versions exist for Windows and Mac. This provides a good free alternative to Framescript or the Frame Developer Kit for Frame programming.
Stefan Petrucha’s tool has, however, been unavailable for download for some time, as noted in an earlier […]
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 […]
The Framemaker resource of the week for this week is TECHWR-L’s Framemaker articles page.
http://www.techwr-l.com/techwhirl/magazine/technical/framemakerhomepage.html
TECHWR-L (that’s “tech-whirl”) is the Internet-based community and resource for technical communicators worldwide.
The TECHWR-L discussion list has more than 5,000 direct subscribers and an estimated daily readership of more than 10,000 people worldwide.
The Framemaker feature area includes articles, how-to information, and […]
HAT-Matrix offers a dynamic comparison matrix where you can pick the features of several help authoring products and dynamically generate comparisons, subject to some caveats:
Search for all tools with selected feature(s)
Search for any tools with selected features
Compare up to four tools side-by-side
NOTE: Only vendors who have paid a fee are included in the database. Vendors […]
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/
The PM for RoboHelp and Framemaker, Vivek Jain, is going to be blogging to reach his customers. Add this one to the blogroll…
