Roger Sheen

infotexture

Information Architecture &
Content Design Operations

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 for DITA.

Now downloading, more soon…

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