The Top 5 Ways FrameMaker eliminates your MS Word cash leaks

  I’ll be giving a webinar for Adobe on April 18 where I’ll be showing why FrameMaker is so much better and more cost-effective than MS Word for technical content. If you’re already a FrameMaker user, do your Word peers a favor and share this with them so they can move up to a more powerful platform! This…

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My Fm secret weapon: FindChangeFormatsBatch

FrameMaker does an amazing array of things. In particular, its ability to store formats in document catalogs can be both powerful and overwhelming when you have many documents to manage. One way that I keep my own work straight, and how I help clients get control of their own work, is by using the FindChangeFormatsBatch…

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FrameMaker 2017 update released (14.0.4)

FYI, if you haven’t updated your FrameMaker install in a while, Adobe released the 14.0.4.511 update on March 15, 2018. Here are the details per their post at https://helpx.adobe.com/framemaker/kb/resolved-issues-framemaker-2017.html Resolved issues When using FrameMaker’s CMS connector to access Adobe Experience Manager repository that hosts Adobe XML Documentation Add-on, the file check-out and check-in features do not…

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Customizing the FrameMaker Welcome Screen

Did you know you can fully customize the FrameMaker welcome screen? It’s easy with some basic HTML and CSS. But even if coding web pages isn’t your jam, you can still make some quick welcome screen changes just by swapping out a few files in your FrameMaker directories. See the end of this post for…

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