FrameMaker Resources

This site contains links of interest to users of Adobe FrameMaker, the industry-leading tool for creating long or complex technical documents. Paired with Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher, it is also an excellent tool for single source solutions that involve some combination of print or PDF, online Help, and Web-based information.

Knopf Online. Resources>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker

FrameMaker Template Browser

I modified the FrameMaker template browser to display our department's templates rather than the generic ones that come with the software. The writers no longer have to dig through the company's folder structure to find the template they need.

Henkel, Rick. Docspages. Resources>Document Design>Software>Adobe FrameMaker

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

Rick Henkel - 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

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