[Closed] FrameMaker 7.x/8 Feature Requests

How about true CMYK support? (for Windows)

That way we can create Frame documents that are sent to the printing house and What ya see is what ya get. No more red faces, essentially. Or, no need to EPS everything so there are no red faces.

Here's a feature I've never seen requested.

The ability to specify where all the backup files get stored. I'd like them to go automatically to some folder that's out of the way, which I can define.

Tim,

I agree that Frame does not act like word, still I submit it would be nice to know the actual applied template. I have a situation where we are changing formats and the results change almost daily.

This one just came up in a "regular" thread: It'd be nice to have a way to get nonrectangular runaround areas while maintaining the utility of anchored frames. The ideal would be the ability to "shrink wrap" an anchored frame to the actual contours of a graphic. Failing that, a selection of shapes -- polygons and ellipses -- for anchored frames would increase graphic layout options.

-Bill

Simple way to determine applied template.

Hi All:

In V7 and an earlier V5.x, whenever you add graphics, edit text, and make changes to a page, the screen is not refreshed and gets scrambled. You can refresh by going Page Up/Page Down, but it would be nice if FrameMaker had a better refresh capability.

Don
p.s. - I have tried to figure out if there is a setting that corrects this. I have looked in the manuals and through this site. So I think this is an enhanced request ;-)

Feature request...FM on OSX.

Discussion continues on Macintouch
http://www.macintouch.com/framemaker.html#oct21

IXgen allows you to expand markers in place, similar to the way you can show or hide {XE ...} index-entry fields in Word. You can edit the text and collapse all marker text back into the marker. Great for proofing to see if index entries are relevant to the context in which they are embedded.<br /><br />IXgen uses a special IXgenMarker character format to delimit the marker text so that it can correctly recognise it to collapse back into the marker. This is a problem if you want to APPLY a character format. <br /><br />If Adobe implements this, I suggest use an anonymous character format (to distinguish marker text from surrounding body text) with a special delimiter character (to mark the boundaries of marker text).<br /><br />In the IXgen editable marker list, you can apply character formats directly. IXgen then converts the applied character formats to the character tags, e.g. <Bold>, when writing the edited marker text back into the markers.<br /><br />If Adobe implements expanding of marker text, you should be able to embed index entries in body text by inserting the special delimiters and typing the entry text between them. Then you should be able to collapse the marker entry back into a marker, creating them on the fly if necessary.

> This **_FEATURE REQUEST_** thread has been hopping lately.

*grin* Point taken. But when someone puts in a feature request for something FM already does, how are we supposed to deal with it?

Cheers, Rebecca

Gary / Chris:

Thanks for the quick responses and the information. I used the Index of References to generate a list. I them exported it to a text file and used this to run a batch file to "only" copy the used graphics to a new folder (copy filename.tif d:\folder\). I switched the two folders and I now have a clean folder that only contains the referenced graphics. I cleaned up some PSD files and some other files that were not LZW compressed too. End result:

Old Folder: 1180 files (160MB)
New Folder: 740 files (88MB)

Thanks for the help! Since I will be checking the files into a document storage program, this is a huge help.

DOn