Seeking inputs on desired features in FrameMaker

[Alison Craig]

Without going into detail, I would find many of the suggestions *extremely* useful. There are several issues raised here that I've had to deal with resulting in a fudged up work-around.

Alison Craig 
Technical Documentation Lead

604-279-8550 | fax 604-279-8559 | toll-free 1-866-437-9508
Ultrasonix Medical Corporation | www.ultrasonix.com



-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Reng, Dr. Winfried
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 3:10 AM
To: kverma at adobe.com
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com; frameusers-de at googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Seeking inputs on desired features in FrameMaker

Hi Kapil,

My wishlist is below. I hope it's not too late.
I use many scripts for most of the issues below. But FrameMaker should be able to do this without external help.

Best regards

Winfried

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H Stability
Stability, no crashes, reliability are my highest priority!

H Vertical alignment
Vertical alignment of paragraphs in text frames (main text frame or text frames in anchored frames): top, centered, bottom.
Often needed for labels in anchored frames with graphics.

H Search/replace with regular expressions I want to use regular expressions not only for search but also for replacement.
I would often need this for processing old documents.

H Consistent naming of formats in different user interface languages Consistent naming of formats in different languages of the FrameMaker user interface. E.g. paragraph formats for table of contents and index, reference page names, master pages etc. Currently these are different in different languages of the FrameMaker user interface and cause problems (or at least work-arounds) when the German or the international FrameMaker is used.

H Options to scale graphics
itl offers many good scripts, but this is the best:
http://www.i-frame.itl.info/en/feature-description/i-frame-modules/base-pack/scale-graphics-proportionally.html

H More options to maintain templates in the long run Template maintenance is very important and gets often ignored. Here options are missing like importing a single format into other files of a book, replacing single formats with other formats in all files of a book, deleting single formats in all files of a book etc. In my oppinion this is very important when using FrameMaker for years.

H Variables in automatic paragraph numbering I want to use variables in automatic paragraph numbering. This would make translations and a common layout much easier.

M Import of formats
During the import it's not always clear, what gets imported. Rick Quatro's Format Special plugin should be standard.

M Variables to be used in file info
The content of file info can be converted to properties in the PDF.
I want to use variables to populate the dialog. Otherwise this file info dialog tends to get forgotten. Additionally the fields in this dialog do not match exactly the corresponding fields in Adobe Reader.

M User dictionary should be language specific The user dictionary holds the specific spelling of words independant of the language. I want to have a separate dictionary for each language.
Additionally I want to be able to store more than 300 entries. (I do not know, if this is still the current limit.)

M Boolean expressions for conditions
Often this does not work reliably. Expressions get too complicated very fast.
There must be brackets. And this must be explained better in the documentation.

> ---
> 
> Hello Framers,
> 
> Hope you are well. In case you don't know me, I am the product manager 
> for FrameMaker and am reaching out to seek your inputs into FrameMaker 
> product.
> 
> We do monitor the user forums to seek feedback and make improvements 
> to the product. As part of the product planning process, I would like 
> to request your wishlist for FrameMaker. Please do let us know by 
> submitting (not more than 10 :-)) new features and enhancement 
> requests, that you would like to see in the product. Also, please 
> indicate a short description of the feature request, the need for it 
> and your priority for each request (H-M-L would be sufficient). 
> Lastly, please include your email address so that we can reach out to you if we have any questions on your requests.
> 
> We would really appreciate it. Thanks in advance for your valuable inputs.
> 
> P.S. I do realize that some of you may have submitted similar feature 
> requests in the past. Although, we would have taken a note of your 
> previous requests, we want to ensure that the feature request is still 
> relevant and important to you and your organization in the current 
> world. So, I would request you to please resubmit your prioritized 
> wishlist. apologies for the extra time, it may result for you.
> 
> Regards,
> Kapil Verma
> Sr. Product Manager - FrameMaker and FrameMaker Server
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