Structured Framemaker, FDK and XML Blog

Passing along a tip from a friend. Sounds pretty innovative. 

From: Peter Lee [mailto:peter@coventi.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 12:44 AM
To: jgilmor@fulcrumcomm.com
Subject: Collaboration Tool for Tech Writers
My startup, founded by Stanford Computer
Science students, has built a next-generation collaborative writing tool and
we’re looking for feedback from the technical writing community.
Coventi Pages (www.coventi.com) is a web-based word processor […]

A friend sent the following DITA references from a mailing list…
The ultimate source is Bob Doyle. Editor In Chief, CMS Review, but no doubt it’s been passed around a bit.

DITA Users < http://www.ditausers.org/> - helping members get started with topic-based authoring using the web-based DITA Storm editor, the DITA Open Toolkit on the server, […]

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 […]

Adobe Delivers Major Upgrade to FrameMaker
Rich Media Enhancements and Unicode Support Anchor FrameMaker 8 Release
SAN JOSE, Calif. — July 23, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced Adobe® FrameMaker® 8 software, a complete authoring and publishing tool that combines the simplicity of word processing with the power of XML. New support for broader […]