Category Archives: buy


Adobe Buzzword Online Word Processor

This is belated but definitely interesting. From another blog.

Mon Oct 1, 2007 6:58 am (PST)
This morning Adobe announced the purchase of online word processor
Buzzword, meaning they are aiming to make themselves a complete
content creation company from word processing all the way through the
content creation process.
Ziff David Report:
http://tinyurl.com/3dxu9a
My take in my blog:
http://tinyurl.com/2s555k

Carmen Publishing: Sale on Framemaker Plugins/Clients

This from another mailing list. Carmen Publishing is offering a sale on many of the products they sell to add on to Framemaker. Contact information is included in the post.

Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:00:51 -0500 From: “Rick Quatro” Subject: ANN:Thanksgiving Sale To: , Hello Framers, I am thankful for all you […]

Structured Framemaker XML DTD/EDD for Download: Scriptorum’s DocFrame

For those looking for a leg up in structured Framemaker, Scriptorum’s DocFrame (with a free XML DTD for download) looks like a great starting point and can be customized further:
Many FrameMaker users need structured authoring and a standards-based single-sourcing solution. Configuring FrameMaker for structured authoring has required too much time and too much money—until […]

Free and Commercial Framemaker 6, 7 Plugins from Sundorne

Sundorne Communications’ tagline is “Writing for Technology… technology for writing”. They offer a number of free Framemaker plugins that solve things I certainly agonized over when I was struggling with Framemaker every day:

ListDocs provides an improved replacement for the Framemaker documents list. It shows the full framemaker document path, rather than the truncated version that […]

Framemaker 8.0 vs 7.2 packaging

This page shows the packaging for Framemaker 7.2 and Framemaker 8.
(oooh, pretty pictures!)

Framemaker 7.2 — very traditional. Pile of documents, little sprig of DNA, building on its predecessors, piling up documents, climbing towards some ever-richer future.
 
Framemaker 8.0 — more minimalist, radical, breaking with past tradition– also… boring? blurry? an indistinct product image? a murky […]

Framemaker 8 Review comments

With the press release, at least, of Framemaker 8 available, let’s look at the high spots:

Framemaker Unicode Support — Unvarnished good. Multilingual content is a drag to handle unless this is in place. Thanks to Adobe for catching up with globalization/internationalization the reality of multilingual text.
Rich Media — My first reaction to embedding Flash and […]