Seeking inputs on desired features in FrameMaker

Sat Apr 28 12:50:40 PDT 2012

May I add another feature request?  It has recently become apparent to me
that a major UK project, proposing the use of DITA, may fall on the
ability, or not, to alter the appearance (colour, etc.) of DITA output text
based on the attribute value for the 'importance' element.

Easy access to the DITA-related EDDs is important to this project, and
presumably to anyone else who has different levels of 'bad stuff will
happen' warnings.

Regards,
Ant

On 27 April 2012 at 22:06 Alison Craig <Alison.Craig at ultrasonix.com> wrote:

> 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
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Winfried
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 3:10 AM
> To: kverma at adobe.com
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> 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
>
> ---
>
> 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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