Adobe FrameMaker® 7.2 Unix 37900622 User Manual

management, and imported text and graph-

ics handling increase the flexibility and effi-

ciency of the authoring process for complex 

documents

Master page usage can be associated to spe-

cific paragraph tags or elements, and cus-

tom master pages can be rearranged in any 

order. This functionality serves to reduce 

manual layout chores for custom pages. 

Twelve running headers and footers are 

available, and a Select/Deselect All button 

streamlines the process of importing for-

mats from one document to another. Book 

templates and structured templates provide 

“out-of-the box” layout options and a rich 

set of examples for skill building.

FrameMaker 7.2 is binary file-format com-

patible with FrameMaker versions 7.1 and 

7.0. You can open and modify “.fm” files 

created with FrameMaker 7.2 in 

FrameMaker 7.0 on any platform. “Save as 

FrameMaker 6.0” is available for backward 

compatibility with prior versions.

FrameMaker supports the import of text 

and graphics from many different formats 

and applications. Imported graphics can be 

resized in relation to their original size. Sup-

ported graphics file formats include SVG 

(Scalable Vector Graphics) format, PDF (1.4 

and later), Adobe Illustrator® 9.0 (and 

later), Photoshop®, and JPEG 2000. Text 

import filters include support for Microsoft 

Office applications.

FrameMaker 7.2 provides accessibility fea-

tures for vision-impaired authors, as well as 

features for creating accessible documents. 

Accessibility features in Windows 2000 and 

Windows XP are supported, including the 

availability of a high-contrast UI, compati-

bility with a broad range of screen reading 

devices, and a full array of keyboard short-

cuts.

FrameMaker supports the creation of acces-

sible documents in many ways. An edition 

can be output as raw text for compatibility 

with accessibility tools that require ASCII 

text format input. 

WebWorks Publisher supplies template-

driven HTML conversion capabilities that 

can generate multiple versions of a Web site, 

including versions with large font sizes and 

high-contract graphics or accessibility tags. 

FrameMaker creates valid or well-formed 

XML output that can be transformed with 

XSLT to generate accessible file formats such 

as VoiceXML.

The following features are new to 

FrameMaker 7.2.

FrameMaker provides support for the 

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) XML 

Schema language, an alternative to DTDs 

for specifying the structure of XML docu-

ments. Create a FrameMaker EDD from an 

XML Schema, and validate XML documents 

against XML Schema on import and export.

Automatically apply W3C Extensible 

Stylesheet Language (XSL) transformations 

when opening and saving XML documents. 

Select, sort, or manipulate XML content 

upon opening or saving.

Create and maintain content that conforms 

to the DITA architecture. DITA (Darwin 

Information Typing Architecture) is an 

industry-standard information model that 

facilitates re-use and re-purposing of mod-

ular information units. 

FrameMaker keeps track of editing opera-

tions, allowing the author to undo or redo 

previous actions. You can select previous 

operations from a history palette.

FrameMaker simplifies the process of con-

verting from unstructured to structured 

content. Automatically create a new EDD 

that includes both structure and format 

information. A new guide, Migrating from 

Unstructured to Structured FrameMaker, 

outlines the process of migrating from 

unstructured to structured authoring.

Open and modify FrameMaker 7.2 docu-

ments directly in FrameMaker 7.1 or 7.0 on 

any platform. Save documents in 

FrameMaker 6.0 format for interchange 

with older versions of FrameMaker.

The following features were originally intro-

duced with FrameMaker 7.1.

When opening an XML document, 

FrameMaker retains the original XML for-

mat and “.xml” file extension when saving. 

Cross-references to external XML and 

FrameMaker documents are retained when 

saving as XML. FrameMaker provides the 

ability to use conditional text functionality 

when working with XML documents. 

FrameMaker includes import filters for 

QuarkXpress and PageMaker® documents, 

which greatly simplify the migration of 

these file formats to FrameMaker (Windows 

only).