Author, enrich, manage, and publish XML/DITA and unstructured content.

Create and publish help and policy content for mobile, web, desktop, and print.

See a new twist on how 3 different ways to view and edit DITA or XML in FrameMaker 11 can be used. Traditional WYSIWYG (page) view still shows exact line breaks, headers/footers and full formatting, if you are going to publish to print or PDF. New AUTHOR VIEW shows only generically formatted content with no page breaks and symbolic indents; ideal for authors who need to focus on content that may go to multiple formats beyond print. Finally, get a glimpse of how powerful XML CODE VIEW can be with INTELLIPROMPT, suggesting legal elements or attributes while you are typing. These 3 views combined help make FrameMaker 11 a full-fledged DITA/XML authoring solution.

FrameMaker 11 "remembers" which paragraph style is in each column of a table when you create or update the table style. This includes paragraph styles that have artwork form the Reference Page. Using these two features in tandem, you can easily create a two-column "CAUTION" box table that will place CAUTION artwork to the side of your text. Since the CAUTION arwork is invoked from the reference page, you can change it there once and update all instances of the CAUTION used in a new table. This allows (a) swift and easy authoring with consistent results and (b) the ability to globally update all instances of a particular segregated caution statement. With WORD, considerable effort would be required to plant consistent artwork in all instances of such a table.

Although Word has a loose equivalent to user variables, this features is far easier and more straight-forward in FrameMaker 11. Unlike Word, no macros or arcane program strings are required. User variables are ideal for product names, company locations, designated staff members ... anything that is likely to change in your document. Simple actions allow you to globally update not only the content of variables, but their appearance as well. You can combine this feature with conditional text control, which allows you to swiftly "show" or "hide" different sections of text, tables or entire graphics that are associated with a certain version of your documentation. This allows a single set of source files to produce multiple versions of your documentation for various customers or internal content consumers. These features can be invoked with simple keyboard shortcuts while authoring, and you can import their values and setting from one document into an entire book!

Word's style catalogs don't obviously segregate text styles from paragraph styles. FrameMaker 11 provides simple, logical catalogs for paragraphs, character styles, table styles and even graphic object styles. In FrameMaker 11, not only can you globally update headings, lists and emphasized text, you can even change all instances of named tables, labeled anchored frames or graphic objects! This allows you a level of formatting control and document consistency amongst multiple authors you could have only dreamed of with Word. Warning: once you use these tools, there is no turning back.

Vincent Hardy, director of the Web Platform Group, explores how today's open-source projects and web standards benefit designers and developers: enhanced expressivity for better effects and interactivity, authoring surfaces, and creating mobile apps with web standards.

See how FrameMaker 11 can publish directly to HTML5 multiview, without turning on RoboHelp, using Technical Communication Suite 4. This demo illustrates how an author or editor who knows nothing about RoboHelp 10's powerful project features can access that power directly from FrameMaker 11

FrameMaker 11 introduces a powerful new way to author an edit XML directly with XML View. Let Intelliprompt suggest legal elements, and have elements "closed" for you. Realtime validation will display errors in a console. Use the "tree" to navigate through your XML code. This feature is one of many reasons that have led industry thought leaders to pronounce FrameMaker 11 a "real" DITA authoring solution.

FrameMaker 11 has improved productivity in many areas, but a favorite with veteran users is the restoration of reliable keyboard shortcuts for paragraph and character formatting, conditional text control, as well as insertion, wrapping and changing XML elements. Watch how simple keyboard shortcuts can allow you to swiftly shape your document without leaving the text you are authoring