[Framers] FrameMaker 2020

[Robert Lauriston]

FrameMaker is a specialist tool for people who want template-driven
PDFs (and optionally web help etc.) or who for whatever reason chose
FrameMaker as part of their DITA toolchain.

Adobe has no incentive to make it more competitive with InDesign as a
page-layout program.

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 3:17 PM Mike Wickham <info at mikewickham.com> wrote:
>
> New versions of FrameMaker always seem to concentrate on adding features
> for the structured community. I get it. That's the strenght of the
> program. But the new features I'd like to see involve handling of
> graphics and type. For example, it would be nice to be able to make a
> graphic float in the middle of a two-column page, and have both columns
> wrap around it. Or how about taking advantage of the various OpenType
> features that InDesign can handle with ease, but Frame is clueless
> about-- like easy, true small caps, or oldstyle numerals? Or optical
> margins and hanging indents, for a more modern, refined look in printed
> docs? Or a separate offset setting for numerators and denominators?
> Right now, you can set superscript and subscript offsets to work for
> either super/subscripts or numerators/denominators, but not both.
>
> Mike
>
> On 1/15/2020 2:54 PM, TW Smith wrote:
> > Over the years, I've beta tested a few FrameMaker versions. I always test
> > on live projects, which I know isn't the best idea, but it gives me
> > information about how the beta works in the real world. Before the beta
> > concludes, I save my project files as MIF, so I can continue documenting in
> > the non-beta, current FM version. Not sure what I need in a new version of
> > FM. Probably stronger Word filters, a better way to round-trip MIF, and a
> > more robust and straightforward way of finding missing fonts in the actual
> > files. Cheers.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 2:58 PM Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
> > wrote:
> >
>
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