Launch Event FrameMaker 10 Overview

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Kapil Verma | Product Manager, FrameMaker and FrameMaker Server

FrameMaker 10 and FrameMaker10 Server overview


Adobe Technical Communication Suite

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First of all, a quick word on Adobe’s solution in the technical communication space….


Adobe offers a complete solution including authoring, collaboration, multi device publishing and community collaboration to technical writers

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• Jill starts authoring in FrameMaker

• DITA/XML, structured, unstructured authoring support

Jill sends out the document for review to experts, who need just the free Adobe pdf reader to review

Jill imports all comments from pdf into the source FM document automatically

Jill can collaborate with other authors through the CMS connectors built into FM10

Jill can publish to multiple devices and formats incl. mobile and online formats using FM server

Jill can host the content on the RH server for end users

• Jill can refine content through the user feedback via the AIR Help viewer

• RH server reports let her analyze content usage (e.g. frequently viewed content)

Jill is a technical writer at Acme manufacturing’s technical writing divisionJill needs to author the user manual for a new gadget produced by Acme

Content curation and continuous refinement process

SERVER SERVERSERVER


Agenda

What’s new in FrameMaker 10? 5 mins

Deep dive into the major enhancements 20 mins

Q&A and Next Steps 5 mins

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Overview of major enhancements in FrameMaker 10

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What’s new? Details

DITA/ XML and structured authoring enhancements

• Standards support (DITA 1.2, S1000D)• Usability enhancements (e.g. enhanced attribute editor, filter by attribute compare

structured documents etc.)• Easily create structured applications and DITA specializations• Enhanced performance when working with XML files

Native CMS connectors • Native connectivity to Documentum and Sharepoint• Use CMS features without leaving FrameMaker interface (e.g. add files, Check-in/out,

versioning, dependency management, search etc.)

FrameMaker 10 Server: True multi channel publishing solution

• Generate 9 different outputs (including webhelp, ePub, Flash, AIR help) from a single source

• Schedule and publish tasks in a batch mode on FM server

Productivity enhancements

• Enhanced PDF review and import of comments• Track changes enhancements (e.g. track changes at book level, user name included)• Auto spell check• Repeat last operation• Find formatting overrides in a document -• Table catalog has been added to ease table management• Access time improvement for EPS and DCS images • Poster for multimedia support

Scripting support • ExtendScript support to automate repetitive tasks, create plug-ins (e.g. S1000D support in FrameMaker 10 has been built using ExtendScript)

• Provides ability to communicate across adobe products

DETAILS TO FOLLOW


Agenda




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What’s new in FM10 on the DITA/XML and structured authoring front?

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What’s new? Details

Full support for standards

• DITA 1.2 support (in addition to DITA 1.1)

• S1000D (standard popular in aerospace and defense industries)

Enhanced tools • Create DITA specializations easily through a UI based approach• Wizard to easily create structured applications

Usability enhancements

• Enhanced attribute editor• Filter by attribute and Ditaval support• Enhanced tag view • View XML source in Notepad (or any editor of your choice)• Find all references• Smart Insert i.e. auto-insert child and their sibling elements• Compare structured documents• Drag and drop capability to easily move content across DITA maps• Insert multiple “topicrefs” in one go• Easily switch back and forth between RM and document view• Easily round-trip equations in XML files

Performance improvements

• Performance improvement of 50-100% (varies by operation) when working with XML files


Now, authors can collaborate with other authors and do more single-sourcing, reuse of content through the CMS connectors in FM10

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Key takeaways

• In FM10, we have provided native connector provided to Documentum and Sharepoint CMS

• Users can access from Framemaker interface all the core CMS functions such as upload, check-in/out, versioning and labeling

• Extensive dependency management capabilities for DITA as well FM book formats

– Identify and upload dependencies

– Show dependencies in the repository view

• Enables collaboration among authors, single sourcing and reuse of content


In addition, we do provide integration with several of the leading CCMS in the DITA space

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Leading DITA CMS Integration with FM

xDocs

* We are working to add more names to this list


FrameMaker server is now a comprehensive publishing solution with multi device and batch publishing capabilities

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Web help

ePub

Flash help

Adobe AIR

PDF

Eclipse Help

Java Help

Oracle Help

Single sourcing, multi device publishing Schedule and automate publishing

Key takeaways

• Publish to 9 different formats and multiple device from a single FrameMaker document

• Publish to the popular ePub format for publishing to mobile devices

Key takeaways

• Schedule publishing tasks to run at specific time/days

• Batch publishing enables an admin to schedule multiple tasks at the same time

• Log generation to aid the admin in viewing results/errors

SCHEDULE…

..AND AUTOMATE

Microsoft HTML (.chm)


Automate repetitive tasks and communicate across Adobe products with the power of ExtendScript

In FM10, we have provided a new interface called ExtendScript to do scripting in Java

Some key points on this new interface

New class (script UI) to create dialogs and the associated controls very easily

Based on Adobe standards. Can be used to communicate across Adobe products

Leverages the existing FDK capabilities

S1000D support in FrameMaker10 has been implemented using ExtendScript

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ExtendScript support in FrameMaker 10 Representative examples of power of scripting

• Sample scripts involving FM objects– Opening and saving a file– Accessing basic objects and their

properties

• Scripts involving events– Registering for events using scripts– Suppressing alerts

• Creating dialogs using ScriptUI– Creating FrameMaker dialogs

• Communicating between TCS products– Modifying an image in PhotoShop

from FM

• Utility script– A script to flatten all conrefs in a

ditamap file


We have also made several enhancements which will help boost user productivity

Authoring

1. Auto spell check

2. Repeat last operation

3. Find formatting overrides in a document

4. Table catalog has been added to ease table management

5. Poster for multimedia support

6. Set background colors to text

7. Easily manage para, character, table tags

8. Access time improvement for EPS and DCS images

Community collaboration

9. Community content collaboration through the enhanced PDF workflow and automatic import of contributions

10. Track changes enhancements (e.g. track changes at book level, user name information included )

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NOT EXHAUSTIVE


Agenda




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Next Steps

Keep up to date on product news

Read Adobe Tech Comm. Blog at blogs.adobe.com/techcomm and watch video snippets of the new features in FM10

Download reviewer’s guide at http://www.adobe.com/support/framemaker/

Follow us on twitter at @tmaldous @KapilVermaAdobe and @ankurjain8

Watch videos on http://tv.adobe.com/channel/technical-communication/

Visit our product home page to learn more about FM10 and FM10 server

Product evaluation

Download a trial version or try the product (without download) at the product home page at http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker.html

Contact me at [email protected] if you need temporary evaluation license for FM10

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APPENDIX

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DITA/ XML workflows

DITA authoring

Create DITA topics and maps

Add content

Insert multiple “topicrefs” in one go

Setting attributes

Structure view, Element catalog and attribute editor

Drag and drop capability to easily move content across DITA maps

Filter by attribute

Enhanced tag view

Publish to pdf/FM book

Community collaboration and content curation (through PDF review)

DITA specialization

Structured application creation wizard

Find all references

Smart Insert i.e. auto-insert child and their sibling elements

Compare structured documents

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Technology

Launch Event FrameMaker 10 Overview