Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Add a marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Generate a list of markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Delete a marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Create a custom marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Add a custom marker to your document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Publish options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Pagination with Page Break marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
Context-sensitive Help marker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Apply index markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Create Dynamic HTML effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Hypertext commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
Add hypertext commands to documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Define an active area in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Associate a hypertext command with an active area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Edit and delete hypertext commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Editing a hypertext command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Deleting a hypertext command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Available hypertext commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Display alert messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Navigate to a named destination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
Navigate to a specific page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Navigate back . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Open documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Button Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Go to URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Open external applications and files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Close FrameMaker and FrameMaker documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
PDF and HTML: Hypertext command support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Create an image map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Multiple Undo/Redo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Undo and Redo commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Document-level command history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Repeat Last Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
History pod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
Find / Change dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Types of search items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 246
Unicode text search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Special character and nonprinting symbol search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
Regular expression configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Spelling Checker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Run Spelling Checker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Set Spelling Checker to skip text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Correct spelling errors automatically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Change Spelling Checker options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251

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Check spelling in different languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253

Control hyphenation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
Change word hyphenation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Prevent FrameMaker from hyphenating a word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Rehyphenate an entire document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
About FrameMaker dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Dictionary Functions dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
Dictionaries for other languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
Create another personal dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Change site dictionaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Edit dictionary files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Thesaurus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Export text and graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Using Save As to export to other formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Saving MIF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Send files in e-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Save a document containing SWF files as PDF, HTML, and XML files . . . . . . . . . 261
Save documents containing SWF files as PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Save documents containing SWF files as HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Save documents with SWF files as XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
Print a FrameMaker file with SWF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Save a structured document in SGML or XML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Multilanguage authoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Unicode support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
About Unicode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Enable Unicode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Adding multilingual text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Asian language support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Character sets and encoding methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Inline input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Typesetting rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Combined Asian and Western fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Text import and export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Date and time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Autonumbering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Index sorting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Exporting Chinese, Korean, or Japanese documents to HTML or XML . . . . . . . 273
Structured FrameMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
HTML output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Preparing documents for conversion to HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
About HTML documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
HTML conversion overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Preserve the FrameMaker look by using style sheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Format overrides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Add links to URLs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280

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Create links that simulate a TOC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281

Setting up links for image maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Specifying graphics conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Set up and adjust HTML mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Set up or modify HTML mappings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Autolevel mappings for headings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Mappings for lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Mappings for cross-reference formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
Fine-tuning mappings by editing reference pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Use the Headings reference page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Edit the HTML Mapping table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Edit a mapping using the HTML Mapping table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Convert special characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Save a document in HTML format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Use HTML conversion macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Create or edit an HTML conversion macro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Use building blocks in HTML conversion macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Redefining HTML system macros . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Customize titles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Insert HTML code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Convert books to HTML files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Troubleshooting and tips on HTML conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Saving structured documents as HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Publishing options for online output formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
About tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Tables formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Working with tables in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
Elements for structured tables and table parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
How structured tables are formatted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
DITA support for tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
Insert, move, or remove a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Insert a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Insert a table element (structured documents) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Use an invalid table element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
Nest a table in a table cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Copy, move, or remove a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Text and graphics in tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Select text or cells in tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304
Place the insertion point in a table cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Select the contents of a cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Select a single cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Select multiple cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Add or remove a table title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
Add continuation text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
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Add continuation text to a selected table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307

Add continuation text to multiple tables in a document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Place graphics in table cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Place a graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
Place a graphic in a structured document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Convert between text and tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Convert text to a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Convert a text file to a table as you open the file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Convert a text file to a table as you import the file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Touch up a table after conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Convert a table to text within FrameMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Copy a table to another application as text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Convert all tables in a document to text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Run text around a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Run text around a table in an anchored frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Run text around a table in an anchored frame (structured documents) . . . . . . . 312
Run text around a table that remains stationary on the page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
Position and autonumber text within cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Set default cell margins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Customize cell margins or text alignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Specify the direction of autonumbering in a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
Change the direction of text in table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Formatting tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Table Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Display the Table Designer and a property group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Apply property changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Reset properties after changing them in the Table Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Table catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Apply or change table format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Create, edit, and delete table formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Create a table format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Rename a table format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Delete a table format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Apply a different format to a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Redefine table formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Change properties in multiple table formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Ruling and shading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Set up regular ruling and shading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Manage ruling styles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 322
Manage custom ruling and shading . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Add and delete rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
Copy, move, or reorder rows or columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
Resize rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
Sort rows and columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Table position and spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

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Specify table position and spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Straddle or unstraddle tables and cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Straddle a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Unstraddle a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Straddle or unstraddle cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Rotate cells and tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Rotate cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Insert a rotated table in a page of unrotated text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Insert a rotated table in a page of unrotated text (structured documents) . . . . . 332
Create a rotated table on a page with other rotated text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Edit a rotated table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Insert page breaks in a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Set the minimum number of rows on a page or in a column . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333
Keep rows together . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Add or remove a page break in a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Graphics and objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Create graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
About graphics and objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Working with illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Tools palette overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336
About paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
About graphic elements in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
Draw objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Draw a straight line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Draw a polyline or polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Draw an arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Draw a freehand curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340
Draw a rectangle, a rounded rectangle, or an oval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Draw a regular polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
Draw several objects of the same type without clicking the tool each time . . . . . 341
Select objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Select an object or multiple objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 342
Deselect objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Apply and change drawing properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Apply a fill pattern or pen pattern to a selected object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Choose a line width for a line or an objects border . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Change the ends of an arc, a line, a polyline, or a freehand curve . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Make a line or objects borders solid or dashed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Inspect an objects drawing properties or apply them to other objects . . . . . . . . 346
Change line width settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346
Change the line end style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Change the dashed line style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Change the arrow style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Add text to graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
Add a text line to a graphic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349
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Add a text frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350

Fix text frames that overflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350
Create reverse text in a text frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Create a reverse text line over an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351
Add a title to an illustration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
Run text around graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
Copy and arrange objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Cut, copy, or paste an object by using the clipboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354
Copy an object by dragging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Delete an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Move an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355
Change the stacking order of objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356
Use gravity and grids to align objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Align text lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358
Distribute objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Make lines intersect cleanly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359
Group and ungroup objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360
Join lines and curves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Flip and rotate objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
Flip an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Create a symmetrical object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362
Rotate objects by dragging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Rotate an object precisely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Crop or mask graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363
Crop the edges of a graphic frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Mask an area within a graphic frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Measure object size and position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
Measure an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
View the position of an object . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
View the position of an object as you move it . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Measure any distance on the page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Resize and reshape objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365
Resize an object by dragging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Resize an object precisely . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Resize imported graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Change the size of bitmap graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367
Move a corner of a polyline or polygon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Add or remove a corner or reshape handle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Reshape a curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 368
Change the corner radius of a rounded rectangle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Smooth and unsmooth objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
Colors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
About color and color models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Before you begin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Color models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
Manage color libraries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372

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Add files to Dropbox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Share Dropbox location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Open and save files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Document comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
About compare documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Types of items compared . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Compare two versions of a document . . . . . . . .
Compare documents that contain conditional tags
Compare documents that contain conditional tags
Word and character count . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
FAQ & troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Structured authoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573

Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573
SGML, XML, and XHTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
DITA and DocBook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 576
User interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 577
Views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
XML View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 578
Author View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 579
WYSIWYG View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
Switch between the views . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
Structured authoring mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 581
Working with the Structure View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
Expand or collapse structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
View element boundaries in the document window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
Expand and collapse elements in document window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
Show and hide attributes for new elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583
Change the scope of elements available in a structured document . . . . . . . . . . . 584
Structure View pod . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Elements catalog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 585
Working with elements in structured documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Valid contents for elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Two classes of elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 587
Attributes for elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
Import element definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 588
Insert elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 589
Add text in a structured document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 591
Edit elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 592
Hierarchical element insert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
Select and edit text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 598
Remove elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 599
Assign attribute values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 600
Types of attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
Copy attribute values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604
Find and edit elements and attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 604
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Check out a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 808

Check in a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 809
Cancel Check-out of a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810
Other operations on a file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
Searching in the AEM repository . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 811
Repository search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812
Advanced search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 812
Associate XMP Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814
Manage AEM preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814
Documentum, SharePoint, and DITAExchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816
Configure the connectors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816
Set default file versioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 816
Setup and configure the Documentum connector . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817
Add the FrameMaker types and formats on the Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 817
Set up sample Adobe FrameMaker DITA Applications for Documentum Server . .
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Connect to the content management system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818
Using Repository Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 818
Upload files and folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819
Upload files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 819
Upload folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821
Manage resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821
Manage Documentum cabinets, folders, and files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 821
Check out files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 823
Check in files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824
Manage files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 824
Search files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825
Basic search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825
Advanced search in SharePoint or DITAExchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826
Filter files by attributes in DITAExchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 826
Advanced search in Documentum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829
Add custom CMS attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 829
Add a custom property for SharePoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831
Add a custom property for Documentum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832
WebDAV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 832
Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833
Advantages of using Browse URL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833
Using the Browse URL workflow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 833
Save a WebDAV server connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834
Setting preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835
Using HTTP paths to open files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835
Add, open, and save documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 835
Associate a template with a folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 837
Scripting in FrameMaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838
What is scripting? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 838
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Manage and collaborate

Speed and accuracy are paramount in keeping your content current as well as relevant. You have
several options to conduct content reviews and ensure smooth collaboration with team members.
Use change bars, enable tracking of text edits, or set up shared PDF reviews depending upon your
need. You can also use FrameMaker to directly access and upload assets to a content management
system.

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For details, see Structured authoring.

Publish across multiple channels

The current demands of content publishing requires the support for an ever-growing number of
formats and devices. FrameMaker meets your complex publishing needs in the most easy-to-use and
efficient ways. You can generate PDF, responsive HTML5, WebHelp, or output for Kindle devices,
among other output formats. You can also choose to customize your output by changing styles and
themes, setting templates, enabling encoding, or setting up content search options. Generate a single
output format or multiple formats at one go.

For details, see Create a document.

Supported software
FrameMaker supports the following software in its workflows:

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Microsoft Word Office 365 (only document downloaded from Office 365), 2013, or 2010

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC (2015 release) or XI

Adobe Captivate 9, 8, or 7

EMC Documentum 6.7

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 or 2010

Adobe Experience Manager 6.1 or 5.5

Authoring modes
FrameMaker offers the following authoring modes:

FrameMaker mode

Structured FrameMaker mode

FrameMaker XML Author mode

Depending on whether you take the structured or unstructured approach to content authoring, you
can choose an appropriate FrameMaker mode for your content.

FrameMaker mode
The FrameMaker mode is ideal for authoring content that need not be tied to a rigid structure. The
unstructured style of authoring relies on a template to define the presentation of content. Font, paragraph, table, and other formats are often based on style guides, and content writing rules specified
by editors. You, as an author, decide the content flow and formatting. For example, depending on
the nature of content, you may include headings followed either by paragraphs or by graphics. This
means that in an unstructured authoring workflow, you create relatively free-flow documents that
are largely style-based.
A typical workflow for unstructured authoring in FrameMaker comprises the following tasks:

Create single documents or include multiple documents in a book.

Specify how content is presented by defining font, paragraph, and table formats among others.

Create templates, with appropriate styles, that can be shared with multiple authors.

Use the Document window to author in this free-form environment. Type Enter to create a
new paragraph or place the insertion point at the required location before you insert objects
like images and tables.

Author in any of the supported formats:

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unstructured documents (.fm)

Maker Interchange Format documents (.mif)

books (.book)

NOTE:

You cannot use the FrameMaker mode to open structured documents.

Structured FrameMaker mode

Use the Structured FrameMaker mode for documents that need to adhere to a structure. The structure is defined in terms of the elements that are available to the document as well as the valid location
of these elements in the structure.
Every part of a document, for example, a paragraph, a section, a topic, or a table, is expressed as an
element. When you create a structured document, you need to ensure that every element is present
at a structurally valid location. Structured authoring ensures consistency of structure across similar
pieces of content.
Following are some examples of structural rules:

A bulleted list must contain at least three items

A heading must be followed by a paragraph.

A table must have a heading row.

A graphic must have a caption.

A typical workflow for structured authoring in FrameMaker comprises the following tasks:
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Create individual structured documents or include multiple documents in a DITAmap or a

book.

Use the existing structured samples or create a custom structure based on EDDs or DTDs.

Include the right elements to define the flow of content. Some elements also include formatting
information that you can use to specify styles.

The underlying structure ensures consistency across content in a multi-author environment.

Use the Elements catalog or keyboard shortcuts to insert new elements for text, images, tables,
and other objects.

Use the Structure view to navigate through your document and also move elements around.
The Structure view also indicates the validity of your document against the underlying structure.

Author in any of the supported formats:

structured documents (.fm)

XML documents (.xml)

books (.book)

NOTE:

You can also choose to work with unstructured documents in the Structured mode. All features
of the FrameMaker mode are available in the Structured mode.

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FrameMaker XML Author mode

The FrameMaker XML Author mode is specifically built for those authoring exclusively in XML.
The underlying structure ensures consistency across content in a multi-author environment
A typical workflow for authoring in the FrameMaker XML Author mode comprises the following
tasks:

Create individual structured documents or include multiple documents in a DITA map or a

book.

Use the existing structured samples or create a custom structure based on DTDs.

Include the right elements to define the flow of content.

Use the Elements catalog or keyboard shortcuts to insert new elements for text, images, tables
and other objects.

Use the Structure view to navigate through your document and also move elements around.
The Structure view also indicates the validity of your document against the underlying structure.

Author in any of the supported formats:

XML documents (.xml)

books (.book)

NOTE:

You cannot open unstructured documents in the FrameMaker XML Author mode. This mode
also does not include the multichannel publishing feature.

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FrameMaker XML Author is also available as a separate standalone product.

Choose an authoring mode

The first time you launch FrameMaker, you are prompted to choose from the following modes:

FrameMaker

Structured FrameMaker

FrameMaker XML Author

If you have already opened FrameMaker in one of the modes, you can change the mode from the
Preferences dialog:
1)

Open the Preferences dialog (Edit > Preferences).

2)

In the Preferences dialog, go to Global > General tab.

3)

In the Product Interface drop-down list, choose the FrameMaker mode and click OK.

You are prompted to restart FrameMaker for the changes to take effect.
The FrameMaker user interface provides for a seamless transition between unstructured and structured authoring. The menu options and other user interface elements are consistent between both
the modes. The options, however, are specific to the mode in which you are authoring.

Whats new in Adobe FrameMaker 2015

Adobe FrameMaker 2015 ships with a number of enhancements.

Structured authoring and XML Enhancements

Simplified XML
FrameMaker now makes it easier for the subject matter experts and casual authors to create valid
XML documents without the need to know the underlying XML structure. DITA 1.3 and DITA 1.2
structured applications have been enhanced to support the new Simplified XML authoring environment. The new simplified authoring interface provides a form-like easy-to-fill authoring environment.
See the video, Simplified XML authoring.

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While authoring, you can use the customized Quick Elements Toolbar to easily insert the most
commonly used objects, such as numbered list, image, or a section in your document.
See the video, Enhanced Quick Element toolbar.
Out-of-the-box FrameMaker supports DITA 1.3 and DITA 1.2 topics, however, you can also design
your own structured applications to use the Simplified XML authoring environment. You can also
customize the appearance of the form fields by updating the associated template.
For more information, see Simplified XML.
See the video, Customized environments for simplified XML authoring.
DITA 1.3 support
FrameMaker now provides support for DITA 1.3. This means that now you can create troubleshooting DITA topics. You also get a customized QET for all DITA 1.3 topics in WYSIWYG view.
For more information, see Customization.
See the video, DITA 1.3 Support.
Structure view enhancements
Working with the Structure View is now more intuitive. Enhancements to the way elements are
accessed and displayed makes navigating through your document much easier.
In addition to the triangle insertion point displayed in the Structure View, the element bubble
containing the insertion point in your document is now highlighted. If your insertion point is inside
an element whose parent is collapsed in the Structure View, the parent element is highlighted to indicate the top level location of your insertion point.
The right-click context menu includes the option to locate your current location in the Structure
View. You can also use the Ctrl+Shift+L keystroke to locate your element in the Structure View.
When dragging and dropping elements across the Structure View, the destination pointer changes
color based on whether the destination is structurally valid or not. You can, however, still choose to
place an element at a location that is structurally invalid. If the target location element is collapsed,
hover the mouse over the element to expand the target element.
You can choose to expand and collapse all sibling elements or all child elements in the Structure
View. The right-click menu for an element includes an item for expanding and collapsing elements.
When scrolling through your document using the mouse or the scroll bars, FrameMaker also scrolls
through the contents in the Structure View. The document view and the Structure View are therefore
always synchronized. This synchronization is also maintained when you scroll through the Structure
View. This feature is turned off by default. You can choose to activate the synchronization from the
FrameMaker Preferences dialog.
For more information, see Working with the Structure View.
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See the video, Enhanced Structure View.

MathML object enhancements
Support for DITA 1.3 documents
You can now insert MathML equations in DITA 1.3 document types (topic, task, concept, reference,
and troubleshooting). Quick Element Toolbar in Simplified XML view for DITA 1.3 documents has
been enhanced to include the MathML container button that allows you to insert MathML equations.
Saving PDF documents with MathML equations
When saving files as PDF documents, MathML objects are now saved with the EPS facet instead of
PNG. In addition to making the object text searchable, the EPS facet enhances the clarity of the
MathML object.
MathML object styles
You can now apply any of the object styles available in your template, to a MathML object. The
compose DPI property is not supported for MathML objects. When you open previous versions of
FrameMaker files the compose DPI property is not honored.
Support for inline MathML equations
By default, when you insert a MathML equation in a document, the equation is placed on the next
line after the current insertion point. You can use the inline property to place the MathML equation
inline with the paragraph text.
The Ambient property allows you to specify that the following MathML styles will be inherited from
the styles of the enclosing text:

Font color, size, and family

Background color

You can update the inline and ambient properties of a MathML equation that is included from
within the object properties dialog. Alternatively, you edit or create an object style with these properties are already set and then apply this object style to a MathML equation.
For more information, see Format a MathML equation.
See the video, Improved support for inline MathML Equations.

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EDD enhancements
Faster and seamless EDD customization
The modular nature of the EDD structure makes updating it a time consuming process. The
multi-step process involves identifying modular files, running book updates for modular EDDs as
well as book updates for all EDDs among other tasks. This multi-step process could take well over
30 hours. FrameMaker now offers a single menu item for updating an EDD and it takes less than 10
minutes for the entire process to complete. Select DITA > Update EDD to update your EDD in a
single step.
Using the Image align attribute
If the value for the align attribute is not defined in the document or not set through the Attribute
editor, then FrameMaker checks for default value defined in the EDD. If a default value is not defined
in the EDD, the image is center aligned in the document.
Ditaval support in DITA-OT publishing
When generating output using the DITA Open Tool kit, you can specify conditional filtering of
content using attribute-value pairs in a ditaval file. While the location of the ditaval file could be
specified in ditafm.ini, you can now select your ditaval file from the Generate DITA-OT Output
dialog
For more information, see Generate output using DITA OT.
Support for DITA Open Toolkit 2.1
Support for DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) has been upgraded from 1.8 to 2.1 library.
For more information, see DITA Open Toolkit.
Preview child map in DITA maps
If a DITA map includes references to child maps, the Show and Hide options in the DITA map will
show or hide the topics referenced in the child maps.
For more information, see Display DITA map content.

Right-to-left language support

FrameMaker now supports right-to-left (RTL) language scripts such as Hebrew, Arabic, and Farsi.
You can author the entire document in the RTL script of your choice or you can author a document
in both RTL and LTR scripts simultaneously. For example, in an LTR document, you can include
selected paragraphs or tables that are authored in an RTL script. You can also author a document
containing both RTL and LTR content.

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Bi-directional content authoring

FrameMaker provides out-of-the-box document direction support for both unstructured documents (see Set the direction of a document) and DITA topics (see Change text direction). However,
for structured documents based on other structured applications, the application developer will
need to define the dir property in the EDD. For details, see the Structured applications reference
guide.
You can also choose to author multi-directional documents. This means that you can author a document in a specific direction that includes parts authored in the other direction. For example, you can
author a document in a LTR script such as English that includes paragraphs (see Paragraph
Designer) and tables (see Change the direction of text in table) authored in RTL scripts such as
Arabic, Hebrew, or Farsi.
You can import Word documents into FrameMaker that contain content that is either LTR or RTL
(see Import Microsoft Word files). You can also copy and paste such text to and from FrameMaker
documents.
For more information, see Document direction.
See the video, Bi-directional language authoring.
Bi-directional content publishing
You can save your bi-directional documents to PDF. You can use FrameMakers multi-device
publishing feature to generate bi-directional output.
For more information, see Create a document.
See the video, Bi-directional Content Publishing.
Bi-directional content flipping
You can also flip objects, such as images, in a document.
See the video, Bi-directional content flipping.

Authoring and productivity enhancements

Revamped Word import

The improved Word import feature in FrameMaker allows you to import a Word document into an
existing or new FrameMaker document. When you import the document, you are provided with a

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