Turbocharge your content creation
Powerful 64-bit architecture

Up to 65% faster file performance

Interactive real-time progress bar

Enhanced image handling

High-quality images

New image transparency support

Support for colored icons

Out-of-the-box SharePoint 2016 support

Quick access to Welcome Screen

Slick and powerful Welcome Screen

New Duden dictionary support


Interactive HTML5 dialogs for plug-ins

All-new platform

New Windows based File Open dialog

One-click image resizing


WebP image support


Faster and lighter setup

Support for high-resolution displays
Work in HD with support for up to 4K displays. The FrameMaker interface automatically scales to the system resolution.
Seamless integration between FrameMaker and Adobe Experience Manager
Search the Experience Manager repository, review comments in real time, and set up file check-in and check-out preferences from within FrameMaker.
Bidirectional language support
Enjoy support for right-to-left (RTL) languages—Arabic, Hebrew, and Farsi. Work with RTL and left-to-right (LTR) content in the same paragraph, document, or book.

Mini Table of Contents
Make long documents more readable and easier to navigate with mini TOCs, which update automatically.
Smoother import of Microsoft Word files
Map styles or create new ones automatically while importing Word documents (including Word 2016 and RTF 1.9) into FrameMaker. Configure and reuse settings across multiple Word documents.
From PDF to Responsive HTML5. Accelerate your publishing.
More control over PDFs

WYSIWYG color output

Password-protected PDFs

Out-of-the-box multichannel, multidevice publishing
Publish as Responsive HTML5, EPUB, Kindle, PDF, CHM, and Adobe Experience Manager Mobile. Create content-centric mobile apps with a single click.
Customize DITA templates for PDF output

Greater content accessibility

Publish to Adobe Experience Manager
Easily publish DITA content to Adobe Experience Manager Sites from FrameMaker by using XML Documentation for Adobe Experience Manager.
Search autocomplete
Provide users with automatic suggestions as they type with first-of-its-kind search autocomplete.
Getting started with XML/DITA has never been easier
Faster XML file handling

Effortless EDD creation

Smoother DITA authoring experience

DITA OT 3.0 support


XSLT 3.0 support

Enhanced Packager


Smart Paste
Quickly convert content to a structured format with Smart Paste. Easily bring in a variety of content, including paragraphs, tables, and lists, from multiple sources such as Microsoft Word, Excel and HTML web pages.
Note: This feature is included for DITA, but you can also build it for other XML schemas.

Simplified XML authoring
Empower subject matter experts and casual authors to create valid XML, without worrying about XML complexities. Work faster with a simplified user interface and a form-like easy-to-fill authoring experience. Easily insert objects using the Quick Element toolbar or by importing from other sources such as Word and HTML pages, even for DITA 1.3 documents.

Comprehensive DTD support
Easily author and validate XML content using standard DTDs, such as DITA and DocBook, as well as custom DTDs. Import or point to the DTD in the XML source and validate that against a DTD.