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 has the ability to create "hot spot" links from an entire graphic or portion of a graphic to relevant text, with hyperlinks in output files.

See how easy it is to link an entire 3D graphic to an animation view and also how a few FrameMaker 11 mouse clicks, generated a list of parts from the 3D graphic that are automatically hyper-linked. In PDF output, you can click on any of the part names in the table, and the 3D graphic will change to a non-shaded view, with the selected part highlighted with 3D shading. This feature is very empowering for people creating techcomm content for medical devices, transportation/airline parts and other products that utilize diagrams with many potential views.

FrameMaker 11 has graphic object properties, which behave somewhat like layers in InDesign. Confined to vector graphic shapes and anchored frames, they allow users to universally change all instances of certain anchored frames, text call-outs, or common shapes and graphic objects.

FrameMaker 11 has the ability to import rich video or 3D, and link various views of the graphic to text or tables. Ideal for medical devices, airline instrumentation documentation, etc.