Comparison of FM8 multimedia/3D capabilities with FM+TimeSavers+MM/3D Assistants

[Shlomo Perets]

FrameMaker 8.0 introduced the option of including multimedia and 3D files 
(SWF/U3D) in the source FM files, that are then embedded in the PDF when 
the FrameMaker file is saved as PDF. In my opinion, the new options are 
minimalistic, and FrameMaker-to-Acrobat TimeSavers still provides many more 
abilities, which work equally well with previous versions of FM, as 
summarized in the following tables:

Multimedia (sound, video):
A comparison of FM8 capabilities vs. TimeSavers + Multimedia Asst (with any 
FrameMaker version) is available at
http://www.microtype.com/timesavers_Assistants.html#MultimediaAsst

3D:
A comparison of FM8 capabilities vs. TimeSavers + 3D Assistant (with any 
FrameMaker version) is available at
http://www.microtype.com/timesavers_Assistants.html#3DAsst

Sample FM->PDF files produced with TimeSavers + these (and other) 
Assistants are available at
http://www.microtype.com/showcase.html


Shlomo Perets

MicroType, http://www.microtype.com
FrameMaker/Acrobat training & consulting * FM-to-Acrobat TimeSavers/Assistants