[Closed] FrameMaker 7.x/8 Feature Requests

Support for "Save As..." to OpenDocument Format.

Intergate Framemaker and Distiller for multi-media. Allow Framemaker to generate a file with an video clip object in it and have it distill so that it executes within pdf.

This may already be in. I read the whole list once, but that was a long time ago.

An option when you import a new format into a document to have all previous tags automatically removed.

The ability to select a file and see what format it currently has.

FrameMaker 7.1p116 for Windows refuses to import some (generally large) WMF files. Version 7.0 has the same problem. Please fix this.

I desperately need Unicode support!

NOT JUST in order to access additional characters (someone somewhere on this list suggested that there are other ways to do that--true to an extent, though endorsing a global standard should not need defence)

BUT ALSO in order to be able to deal with RIGHT-TO-LEFT languages--in other words, the bidirectional algorithm.

I now have to work with a lot of Biblical Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, etc., and I've been forced to abandon my favourite product in favour of Microsoft Word.

That should say it all... (hate living in exile...)

Thanks

And mifmuncher (from http://www.stc-carolina.org/sigs/frame/tools/mifmunch.html) is the unmissable utility that helps with style catalogues

Alt-<arrow> 'nudges' graphics.

- More granualar change tracking.
- Using arrow keys, 'nudge' graphic/drawing functionality.
- The ability to print a "definition report" for all style catalogs.

Thanks Arnis, I almost never go to the Row Format dialog, which is, of course, the obvious place to look for this feature.

Barbara

I did a quick search and didn't see this one.

I'd like to have a "Keep with next" for table rows. Sometimes that one row has to be on the same page as the next row.