Features

Now deliver your content to multiple channels, formats, and screens, from within FrameMaker 12, without having to purchase any other product. Publish to popular output formats like EPUB 3, KF8, MOBI, WebHelp, CHM, and HTML5 with a single click. Define settings once and share them organization-wide. Simultaneously batch-process multiple outputs.

Create or edit MathML equations within FrameMaker 12 thanks to native integration with MathFlow™ Structure and Style editors from Design Science. Import a MathML equation  into FrameMaker, as an image, auto-size it, and save its source in the XML file. Render all documents including XML, with embedded MathML equations. 

Manage content effectively using new native integration with Adobe Experience Manager, formerly known as Adobe CQ. Check out, check in, upload, copy, move, and create files. Get digital asset management metadata support, see version history, show dependents, and more. Customize Adobe Experience Manager by changing preferences.

Customize the user interface to match the way you work. Configure it with icons of your choice—large or regular sized, colored or greyscale.  Use floating toolbars and control bars, dock your most frequently used dialog boxes for quick access, and create workspaces customized to your workflow.

Work more productively by conducting authoring and reviewing in parallel. Edit the source content without waiting for all review comments to come in. Review comments are imported correctly in the modified document as long as the commented content has not changed in the source document.

Leverage the powerful PDF-based review workflow even on mobile devices using the mobile Adobe Reader app. Allow your subject matter experts to review content anytime, anywhere on smartphones and tablets. They will be able to make comments in the PDF and these can then be seamlessly imported into the FrameMaker source file.

Change the way you insert elements of various catalogs such as element, paragraph, and character catalogs. Bring up the new dialog box with a keyboard shortcut. See content even for large catalogs with 10 elements displayed at a time. Search for an element directly, or view a dynamic list of elements based on the filter criteria or context.

Work anytime, anywhere, on any machine, and with collaborators across networks. Choose whether to upload dependent files  or not. Share documentation easily with subject matter experts and other reviewers, and keep documents automatically updated with review comments.

Effortlessly use conditional tags for single-sourcing content with an improved, user-friendly Conditional Text Pod. Easily apply or remove multiple conditions. Utilize visual checkmarks to apply conditions or see which conditions have been applied.

Simply click on icons in the native Quick Element toolbar to insert or wrap content into elements without requiring knowledge of tag names. The toolbar guides you to select valid elements in the XML structure. Build your own toolbar for custom DTDs by mapping different elements to icons in the toolbar.

Expand DITA map by resolving each topicref to easily preview the topic content. Open topics individually or all together at   one go. Preview nested topics without opening each topic individually. Edit a topic by simply clicking on it, and refresh to see the changes.

Easily work with XML files as white spaces inserted in the XML code view in FrameMaker or any other XML editor are handled as per XML standards. White spaces and spaces for pretty printing are ignored or preserved as appropriate or specified. Specify white spaces to be preserved using the XML:space attribute. 

Get back your previous session with just one click. Automatically restore files that were open in the last session, pods and panels in use as well as their location, and the selected authoring view. 

Be more productive when working with multiple files. With the new "Currently Open Files" pod, you can easily see all open files across all views along with the complete file path.. Easily identify and navigate between saved, unsaved, and active files. Save or close multiple files at one go.

Easily add QR codes to FrameMaker 12 documents and bridge the gap between the print and online worlds. Edit embedded QR codes and preview them in real time. Use them on popular iOS or Android™ QR Reader apps. Generate QR codes in different sizes.

Filter content within your document using conditional tag expressions created with an intuitive user interface. Easily build complex expressions with nested parentheses and Boolean operators. The expression is automatically validated as you type. .  Name your conditional expressions and save them for future use. 

Leverage regular expressions to carry out complex searches, or ‘find and replace’ on content in WYSIWYG and Author views. Use any of the three regular expression search engines—Perl, Grep, Egrep, and easily search body text, footnotes, markers, variables, and more. Regular expression search uses the Boost library, with Perl as the default search engine.

Do away with the hassle of having to install or integrate DITA OTK to publish DITA content to multiple output formats. Leverage out-of-the-box support for DITA OTK to seamlessly publish content in various formats, including HTML, Microsoft HTML Help (.CHM) and Java™ Help.

Launch FrameMaker 12 substantially faster than FrameMaker 11. Open XML documents of different types quicker than ever. Work more productively—benefit from a number of performance enhancements that save you a substantial amount of time when performing routine tasks.