Moving from Unstructured to FrameMaker Plus DITA
This page provides some answers to the question 'What resources would you recommend for someone moving from unstructured Frame to Frame+DITA?' Carla Martinek, Translation Coordinator/Editor, started making this list in response to a CMS question on the FrameMaker+DITA listserv, and thought it would be worth sharing.
KeyContent.org (2006). Resources>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
Da druckt meine Quelldatei mit allen Pixelbildern wunderbar, wenn ich diese aber mittels Acrobat in das PDF-Format von Adobe wandle, kann ich in den Pixelbildern kaum noch Text lesen, sind alle feinen Linien weg und ist auch sonst die Qualität der Pixelbilder nur noch mäßig.
Transcom. (German) Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
This page is dedicated to the Adobe FrameMaker software. It includes many suggestions for customizing FrameMaker as well as a guide that my department used for converting thousands of pages from Word to FrameMaker.
Henkel, Rick. Docspages (2000). Resources>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
Single-Sourcing from FrameMaker 5.5.6 to ForeHelp Premier 2000
This article centers on a single-source documentation process that involves authoring structured, chunked documentation in Adobe FrameMaker 5.5.6 and converting it 'just in time' to a WinHelp online help system using ForeHelp Premier 2000.
Snavely, Deborah. InFrame (2000). Articles>Software>Document Design>Adobe FrameMaker
Taking FrameMaker files on the road can present a few challenges, but it doesn't have to be difficult. Here are some tips that'll help ensure that you get the best results.
Valiulis, Dave. Adobe Magazine (1997). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
WebWorks Publisher: Can It Convert You? 
Discusses Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher, a software package that allows single-sourcing from Adobe FrameMaker to online documents. For a more advanced discussion of WebWorks, see Robert R. Desprez's article 'WebWorks Publisher: Jumping into the Details,' also in the September/October 2001 issue of Intercom.
Beren, Wendy G. Intercom (2001). Design>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
WidemanOne Adobe FrameMaker Topics
For all that the most central concept in FrameMaker is the Frame, the existing documentation is thoroughly foggy regarding the precise nature of the Frame types and the relationships amongst them. Here is a first pass at rectifying that shortcoming.
Wideman, Graham. WidemanOne (2001). Resources>Software>Document Design>Adobe FrameMaker
Adobe FrameMaker: Custom Master Pages
New FrameMaker documents have default Master Pages. Single-sided documents have one, called "Right," and double-sided documents have two, called "Left" and "Right." We use these pages to place the objects we want to repeat on all the Body Pages, things like our running heads, page numbers and repeating graphics. But what do you do when you need a different look for a Body Page, on a repeating basis? For example, no page number on the opening page of each chapter? You set up a custom master page. Here's how.
Binder, Barbara. Blogs.com (2009). Articles>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker
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