[Closed] FrameMaker 7.x/8 Feature Requests

Speaking of Mac, what happened to the EOL on Mac statement at the top of the forums page? Seems to have vanished at some point, although it is still listed on the FM product page.

Ideally, support for Mac OSX (don't dump Mac!). With respect to Frame 7 on Windows, I miss the keyboard shortcuts that were available on Mac for many/most menu commands.

A Missing Files dialog box that actually shows the COMPLETE filename and path to a missing file, instead of having an ellipsis obliterating the information I need to find the missing file!

Chris,

I think DEC used (use?) their own in-house-version of TeX - which have all those nice features that FM does not support today.

RE
Mats

I would like to be able to mark specific .fm files in a book so that Conditional Text errors or Numbering errors would NOT be reported for these files when updating and generating a .book.
For instance, a back page that is common to all my manuals always alerts me that the conditional text settings do not match the previous file in the book. I know that. I want to mark this file in the book or in the file itself to always, always ignore conditional text settings.

Guess there's only one scientific writer before me:

What I need most is...

1. True unicode support (to access Greek characters in OpenType fonts)
2. A accessible equation editor (I frequently have to switch to linking to MathType equations that were saved as .eps files to get it all right...)
3. As many levels of undo as possible... (is this updated with FM7.1?)

Slightly different request than compatibility with Mac:

How about ensuring Distiller creates PDFs that can actually be viewed by older versions of Adobe Reader?

Distiller 6 creates PDFs that cannot be properly viewed in IE with Reader 5.1 on Windows, unless "Allow Fast Web View" is disabled in Reader.

1543 and counting on the petition. Feature request: OSX version of FM.

Version that runs on OSX. If OSX is good enough for an Army supercomputer, don't you think FM could run on it?

Why stop requesting this? Maybe the current management will be terminated by Arnie out there in CA.

Wish List for FrameMaker...
1) MacOSX Native Support (if EVEN via XWindows! Can Solaris Frame be made to run via X Windows under X.3??? It doesn't have to LOOK aqua, just run under Darwin PPC!!!)
2) Linux Support (Heck, at least I could use Frame on my Mac's!)
3) Frame Vector to SVG Support (exporting/importing is horrible, taking the vector graphics in Frame and turning then into bitmaps)
4) Better PDF import support (how about turning them into a frame doc and vector graphics?)
5) Reasonable clip arp (the clip art is so dated, how about some technical art like with Visio?)
6) Better drawing (more visio-like)
7) enhanced Table support (more like Excel, some basic table formulas like summing!)
8) Better MS Word Support - I am tired of being embarassed when I export a Frame Doc to word and my output embarassing.
9) Better HTML Output - Once again, the HTML output is embarrassing.
10) Better HTML Input - How about editing HTML pages?
11) Grammer Checking Option - for all platforms