FrameMaker

FrameMaker

(text)A commercial document preparation program produced byFrame Technology Corporation who were taken over by Adobe Systems, Inc. in 1995/6. FrameMaker is available for a widevariety of workstations and is designed for technical andscientific documents. It uses a powerful system of templatesand paragraph styles to control WYSIWYG formatting. Itsupports graphics, tables, and contents pages among otherthings.

Version: FrameMaker 6, due April 2000.

See also Maker Interchange Format.

FrameMaker

A desktop publishing program from Adobe that runs on Unix platforms, Macintosh and Windows. It is noted for its large number of advanced features, including full text and graphics editing capabilities. Optional viewers let documents run on machines without FrameMaker, providing a way to distribute hypertext-based help systems.