See all the great things Adobe FrameMaker can do
Adobe FrameMaker empowers technical communication professionals to do what they do best—create brilliant technical content experiences for their customers. Explore how FrameMaker caters to your organization's needs—from content creation to delivery.
Platform

Powerful 64-bit architecture
Significantly boost performance with the 64-bit architecture. Effortlessly work on large, complex XML and non-XML content with better memory management and a larger memory space.

Up to 65% faster file performance
Save time with performance enhancements that make opening and publishing files to PDF or Responsive HTML5 a whole lot faster.

Higher stability due to updated libraries


Scaling on high-resolution displays
Work in HD with support for up to 4K displays as the UI automatically scales to the system resolution.
Author
New Navigation view

Improved WYSIWYG view (XML)

Smoother DITA authoring experience

Superior CSS3 styling support

Bi-directional 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.
Smarter footnote handling

Duden dictionary support
Get out-of-the-box support for Duden, a trusted German dictionary, for more accurate spelling and hyphenation.

Mini table of contents
Make long documents more readable and easier to navigate with mini TOCs, which update automatically.
Out-of-the-box LwDITA support

Language-specific smart quotes


All-new structure view

Simultaneous document and tree view for DITA maps


Navigation for multiple DITA maps


Enhanced spell check and punctuation correction


Sentence case formatting

Instantaneous switching between views


Acronym referencing with <abbreviated-form>


XSLT 3.0 support
Create a variety of transformation scenarios by applying predefined or customised XSLT to XML files and execute them using a range of JAXP-compliant processors. Define the scope of the transformation—a file, all files in a folder, DITA map or all children of a book. XSLT 3.0 support is provided via Saxon Enterprise Edition 9.8.3, which is bundled with FrameMaker.
Migrate
Smoother import of Word files
Map styles or create new ones automatically while importing Word documents (including Word 2016 and RTF 1.9) into FrameMaker. Configure and re-use settings across multiple Word documents.
Split documents into chapters

Import Word content to DITA

Import Markdown to DITA

Enrich
Embed YouTube videos


Enhanced image handling
Effortlessly import and work with hundreds of images in the same document faster than ever before.
Insert rich media with DITA

Review
Painless collaboration using Adobe Acrobat*

*Adobe Acrobat desktop and online services require an Adobe Technical Communication Suite subscription.
Translate
Out-of-the-box translation support

Pre-segmented XLIFF for easier translation

Manage
Native integration with Adobe Experience Manager


Out-of-the-box support for SharePoint
Instantly connect to Microsoft SharePoint Online or a SharePoint 2016 CMS to perform search, read, write, delete, update, check in and check out operations on a configured repository.
Leverage customisations using Adobe Partner plug-ins


Integration with OpenText Documentum

Publish

Enhanced PDF engine

Generate PDF/An and PDF/X compliant PDFs

Embed reference PDFs within a PDF

Greater content accessibility for PDFs

WYSIWYG PDF for DITA content

Out-of-the-box multichannel, multidevice publishing
Publish as Responsive HTML5, EPUB, Kindle, PDF and CHM. Create content-centric mobile apps with a single click.
All-new HTML engine

Next-generation Responsive HTML5 layouts
Deliver personalised content experiences with Responsive HTML5 layouts that have best-in-class search and navigation. Show or hide widgets, such as glossary and TOC.
Customise DITA templates for PDF output
Easily apply DITA templates and access ditafm-output controls from the Publish pod. Store templates as a part of the settings file for easy import and export.

Consistent colour output
Get predictable and consistent colour output as you use images and other elements in your documents.

Out-of-the-box DITA-OT support

Re-use
Intelligent single-sourcing of content
Efficiently re-use existing content from within a document or across multiple documents. FrameMaker provides several different single-sourcing techniques such as conditional text, text insets, content references and variables.
Enhanced key and keyspace handling

Automate

Automate publishing workflows
Work smarter by scheduling publishing tasks to run automatically using the powerful capabilities of Adobe FrameMaker Publishing Server.

Automate repetitive tasks
Create powerful scripts with Adobe ExtendScript, develop native plug-ins or integrate with third-party services using the comprehensive FrameMaker API and Developer kit.