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FrameMaker 8 Sports Tabbed UI

Installation Surprise #2: Another thing about the new FrameMaker 8 that Adobe hasn’t mentioned is immediately apparent after installation—the program now has a tabbed interface and the toolbar has received a colorful (if somewhat half-hearted) makeover. FrameMaker users have been complaining for years about the antiquated interface, and while a tab bar and a few [...]

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FrameMaker 8 Requires Activation

Installation Surprise #1: One of the new FrameMaker 8 “features” Adobe carefully neglects to mention is that the application now requires activation—like most of their other products nowadays. As usual, the program will run for 30 days without activation, but thereafter you’ll need to run the activation procedure and hope they got it right this [...]

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Adobe Announces FrameMaker 8

Adobe has announced that FrameMaker 8.0 will be available by the end of July. The new features are quite close to the list published earlier and include enhanced XML roundtripping and out-of-the-box DITA support—though it remains to be seen if the DITA features add anything beyond those previously included in the FM 7.2 Application Pack [...]

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