Note: The link points to the mildly annoying Acrobat.com site, which allows you to view the PDF directly in your browser without additional plugins. If you’d rather just download it for offline reading, click the Download link in the upper right portion of the window.

If you already have Acrobat/Reader 9 on your system, you can view several brief Captivate movies embedded in the PDF. If you’re still running Acrobat 8, you’ll get the usual “…may not open or display correctly” warning, but you’ll be able to access the rest of the content just fine.

Highlights include an all-new customizable user interface for FrameMaker (revamped to align with the UI of Adobe’s other product offerings), support for DITA 1.1 and the upcoming 1.2 standard, live links to FrameMaker documents in RoboHelp projects and the ability to publish online help in Adobe AIR format. Another focus is improvements to the reviewing process, with better support for accepting and rejecting changes, including the option to import PDF comments as conditional text in FrameMaker and create an AIR application for online reviews.

Adobe’s Senior Product Evangelist RJ Jacquez highlights the new suite features in a presentation, and provides a demonstration of the new products (including a look at the new FrameMaker interface at about 3:20 minutes into the demo).

The update is available via the Adobe Update Manager (Help > Updates), and should show up on the FrameMaker Downloads page sometime soon.