FrameMaker solutions for high technology
Products and product specifications change frequently in high technology, and maintaining the quality and integrity of information is critical. Product documentation must be completed on the same manufacturing timetable as the corresponding product. Efficiency and time to market are key motivators for product document creators — the less time the writer must spend on formatting, the more time is available to ensure the accuracy and completeness of the content.
Publishing groups in this industry must manage large amounts of product information, reuse information as much as possible throughout the product lifecycle and across product lines, repurpose information for different delivery formats, maximize quality while maintaining costs, and increase customer satisfaction by delivering information customers want in the formats they expect.
An information publishing solution based on Adobe® FrameMaker® 8 software or Adobe FrameMaker Server 8 software offers a template-driven publishing model. The benefits for high-tech publishing include: a full-featured authoring tool for creating long, complex documents; XML authoring and publishing; server-based publishing that pulls data directly from data repositories; powerful single-sourcing; and integration with content management systems.
FrameMaker 8 key benefits
- Convert files to Adobe PDF for timesaving electronic commenting and reduced storage and bandwidth requirements, while preserving document structure and organization.
- Easily include, reuse, and update charts, graphs, tables, figures, and massive amounts of technical information.
- Integrate 3D models and rich media contained in Adobe Flash SWF files directly into their Adobe PDF documents.
- Enable anyone with Adobe Reader to experience dynamic and interactive assets such as 3D, video and animation directly within the context of their document.
- Integrate screen recordings, simulations, tutorials, and quizzes created with Adobe Captivate 3.
- Leverage legacy databases for innovative publishing opportunities.
- Single-source variations of the same document through advanced conditional output.
- Manage large amounts of information at several levels.
- Enable authors to edit, format, and structure documents with no additional software required, and to leverage XML without having to learn XML coding.
- Integrate publishing projects with enterprise-wide content management systems.
- Provide XML and multichannel publishing capabilities in a single package.
- Manage sections or chapters of a book without loading the entire book into memory, for robust performance even with limited system memory.
- Easily manage graphics in most popular graphic file formats.
Featured customers
Hitachi Semiconductor
Using FrameMaker software, this computer chip manufacturer produces datasheets in multiple formats — print, HTML, SGML, PDF, and now XML — significantly reducing print costs and delivery time.
Microsoft Press
Software company's publishing arm reuses publication content for self-tests and eBooks with FrameMaker and XML workflow.
Note: These case studies discuss the Adobe FrameMaker+SGML product. FrameMaker 8 includes all features of FrameMaker+SGML.
Learn more
- Adobe FrameMaker in high technology (PDF, 66k)
- Migrating an enterprise to FrameMaker (PDF, 81k)
- FrameMaker Solutions Guide (PDF, 1.8M)
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