Adobe FrameMaker Reviews

Designed for writing and editing large or complex documents, including structured documents. Love this framemaker out of any other. It blows competitors out of the water.

You can avoid other styles as well; just don't use them. Instead of using constant-width fonts or boldface for commands, use roman type and the word "command," as in "shell command

Definitely recommend this platform for all users of Adobe

The Adobe FrameMaker Developer Kit (FDK) is a set of C libraries and header files that allow you to write Application Programming Interface (API). My buisness has increased dramatically.

This is the easiest program for publishing content across different websites. I appreciate the ease of use.

No dislikes on my end, I have had nothing but a great experience using FrameMaker.

The main benefit is being able to use it in web and mobile design.

FrameMaker is a very good application that serves it purpose for creating heavy documents

Nothing Much, I may include UI is not that friendly as MS-word/ Adobe Acrobat. but it is negligible

Creating User Guides, user Manuals

What I like best about Framemaker is its ease of use. As a Senior Technical Writer, I use it with photo editing software and storage software, etc.

I do not have any dislikes for this software.

The major benefit of FrameMaker is that I am able to keep documents organized from release to release. I also like the toolbars.

FrameMaker facilitates organizing and automating lengthy documents with multiple graphics and is far more robust than Word.

The editing features of Frame are frustrating, because you cannot view the same document with and without markup, as you can in Word.

FrameMaker makes publishing multi-chapter operator manuals easy with its Book features, which enables me to quickly generate/update tables of content and cross-references.

Adobe keeps trying to kill this product, but it’s the only thing out there and it does what it does as well as it does. If you’re writing a book, you can easily set up an automatically generated Table of Contents, easy cross-links, and whatever kind of pagination you want. If you need to write about several similar products, want to hide text describing a feature that hasn’t yet been implemented but will be, need to support multiple versions of the same product, or want to use different paragraphs for printed docs vs online help, FM has conditional text. FM also has support for variables, enabling you to change values ranging from copyright dates to product names to headings in page headers and footers.

You can create graphics using its built-in drawing mode, import graphics (by reference or directly inserted), or a combination of the two. With the latest version of FM, you can also save your output in a variety of formats.

FM also works great for editing XML and DITA books.

It costs $1k per license, and Adobe keeps trying to push its online subscription service, which is cheaper in the short run but pricier in the long run. FrameMaker also only runs on Windows these days. It used to work on several flavors of UNIX and with Mac OS. A lot of us wish Adobe would support Linus and Mac OS X. We writers are stuck using Windows because of Adobe while most of the rest of the company runs either Mac OS X or Linux.

The learning curve is short. It is WYSIWYG (although in Structured mode you can see the invisible-to-end-users XML tags). Make sure it will output the formats you need. In some cases you might need Robohelp or WebWorks to create your output.

We have a huge documentation set. We have things like copyright dates and product names. All books share the same “back matter” source files. Using FM and WebWorks, we are able to use a batch job to generate our document set.

This product is very easy to use and understand.

They keep changing what the menu items are.

We use this software in several different versions for our clients. It saves them time and money when translating into multiple languages.

I like the versatility and simplicity of the templates I can make, how you rarely have to override anything.

I dislike trying to sort out a book that is full of someone else's overrides, but I can't think of any characteristics of the program that I have disliked.

Manual editing and content importing.

Framemaker helps me write articles for pharmeseautical products. It has software that converts the content from FrameMaker to a bunch of online help systems.

Framemaker also has strong XML abilities that are used for publishing from databases and converting among a variety of formats.

I don't like that is no longer supported by a Mac computer.this is tough because all other Adobe programs are able to perform on a Mac and I would like to have a Mac over a pc.

This program is better than I design for technical writing.

Technical content is complex so making easier to understand to a broad audience is always a problem.

This software helps achieve the goal of getting a broader range of people to understand.

Simplicity , professional results from a beginner .

Paying the monthly access for the adobe suite cloud .

I don't have to pay to outsource and I get results I wanted without the challenges of someone hired .