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Presentations on features squeezed into FrameMaker 8

Thursday, November 20, 2008 — posted by Terry Smith

Just two weeks ago I was in an elementary school gymnasium working as an election official. Fourteen straight hours with no breaks for meals because officials aren't allowed to leave the polling area (which is why your ballot may have crumbs on it, sorry about that). In my precinct one candidate received only one vote more than the opponent; in another race, the difference was six votes. A very long and exciting day.

Bleary-eyed but pleased to have served my precinct, I spent the next two days attending the DITA/TechComm conference. Perhaps not the heady stuff of this year's election, but definitely worthwhile. This conference had two themes: DITA and the tools in the Adobe Technical Communication Suite (although Madcap Flare was definitely represented, too). The place where those two topics meet is FrameMaker.

I was scheduled to speak on two FrameMaker topics for the conference. FrameMaker 8 now has built-in DITA authoring capabilities, which I demonstrated. I had a few slides to keep the demonstration on track. The slides, which I have included here, are brief.



My recommendation? If you want to get the most from FrameMaker's conditional text capabilities, use structured FrameMaker and install the free ABCM product instead of using FrameMaker 8's Filter By Attribute feature.

Labels: adobe, conferences, dita, FrameMaker, PDF, presentations, xmetal

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