Adobe Window 8 User Manual

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Microsoft® Windows® 2000, Windows XP,

Windows Vista™, UNIX®

Adobe

FrameMaker

WE L C O M E T O A D O B E F R A M E M A K E R 8

The world of technical communication is rapidly changing. Organizations must meet the

challenges of shrinking product lifecycles, increasing product variations, and disappearing

geographical boundaries. Technical communicators need tools to take advantage of established

and emerging trends and technologies, such as PDF, HTML, XML, and rich media.

FrameMaker 8 software is a key member of the Adobe tools for technical communicators and

supports organizations that need to author, structure, publish, repurpose, and customize infor-

mation for global audiences.

This document contains examples, illustrations, and mini-tutorials that show the key features

and proven functionality of FrameMaker 8.

W H O S H O U L D U S E F R A M E M A K E R ?

FrameMaker provides a rich feature set that supports a variety of users, from creators of XML-

based information to technical writers, instructional designers, and server-based publishers, as

well as anyone producing long, complex, or structured documents or books.

Te c h n i c a l w r i t e r s

FrameMaker supports writers and publishers of a broad range of technical content, including

technical manuals, specifications, data sheets, and training materials. FrameMaker software

provides a feature set that makes it easy to master complex projects, publish to multiple chan-

nels, and obtain professional-quality results. Proven authoring features support searching and

revising multiple documents and reliably processing thousands of pages of complex content,

with robust, reliable cross-references, autonumbers, tables of contents, indices, and running

headers and footers, as well as complex tables, graphics, and equations. FrameMaker has

evolved to meet the changing requirements of technical writers, supporting both unstructured

and structured workflows, standards-compliant authoring and publishing, and dynamic con-

tent publishing in combination with Adobe Flash® and Adobe Acrobat 3D® software.

C O N T E N T S

W e l c o m e t o A d o b e
F r a m e M a k e r 8 . . . . . . . . . . 1

W h o S h o u l d U s e F r a m e M a k e r ? . 1

K e y N e w F e a t u r e s . . . . . . . . . . 2

C o m p a r i n g D o c u m e n t
W o r k f l o w s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

G e t t i n g t o K n o w
F r a m e M a k e r 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

F r a m e M a k e r 8 : A G u i d e d
To u r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

S t r u c t u r e d o r U n s t r u c t u r e d
F r a m e M a k e r ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

U n s t r u c t u r e d A u t h o r i n g . . . . . 9

S t r u c t u r e d A u t h o r i n g . . . . . . 1 1

D e v e l o p i n g a S t r u c t u r e d
A p p l i c a t i o n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3

M i g r a t i n g t o S t r u c t u r e . . . . . 1 5

X M L P u b l i s h i n g . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7

D I TA A u t h o r i n g a n d
P u b l i s h i n g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 7

P u b l i s h i n g 3 D a n d I n t e r a c t i v e
C o n t e n t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 9

P D F P u b l i s h i n g . . . . . . . . . . . 2 0

C o m p l e x D o c u m e n t s a n d
B o o k s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1

Ta b l e s o f C o n t e n t s a n d
I n d i c e s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 4

A u t o m a t i c N u m b e r i n g . . . . . . 2 6

Te x t a n d G r a p h i c s . . . . . . . . . 2 8

Ta b l e s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 0

Te x t E d i t T r a c k i n g . . . . . . . . . 3 1

C o n d i t i o n a l Te x t . . . . . . . . . . 3 4

C r o s s - R e f e r e n c e s . . . . . . . . . . 3 8

S y s t e m R e q u i r e m e n t s . . . . . 4 0