[Closed] FrameMaker 7.x/8 Feature Requests

3. Tables within tables.
4. Turn off automatic backup files.

1. An option for setting an anchored frame ABOVE the current line.

2. Capability of saving table headings as part of a defined table.

Multiple levels of undo are a definite must! Also, it would be so great if I could have multiple page sizes in one document. Most of my documents are letter size, but every now and then, we have to add electrical schematics or other drawings that are 11 x 17. I always have to Mickey Mouse it so that the drawings are still in the TOC and Index, but I have to maintain separate files for them and manually insert them into my PDF files.

LOL! Well, it was nice knowing you, Raman. ;?P

0. Mac OSX native!!!!!!
0. Mac OSX native!!!!!!
etc.

If Adobe doesn't at least make an announcement by the end of the fall our company will have to find a new product (probably one of the XML editors that is currently out there for OSX).

Forums are therapeutic...so that is the last of my ranting for the day. :coolfrown:

0. Mac OSX native (or at least Carbon)!!!!
1. FULL Unicode support
2. FULL OpenType support, with, for example, control in the Para and Char Designers of automatic usage of old-style figures
3. Improve Search/Replace functionality: FULL GREP s/r; multiple search criteria, so, for example, one can search for instances with a specific parafmt applied; quick saving of a search to a script from within the s/r window
4. Included scripting language which, among other things, can control the GREP s/r
5. Endnotes
6. The option to have changes to formats propagate automatically to all the files in a book
7. Better footnotes: let them split to the next page; make them able to avoid graphic frames at the bottom of a column; flexible controls to aid in keeping a footnote on the same page as its reference
8. Better control over the positioning of an anchored frame
9. Typography and display engines from InDesign (merge Frame functionality onto the InDesign engine?)

These items are all so important to my work with Frame that I seriously hope that they have already been implemented in Frame 8, which I hope is in beta by now. Of course, I know that most of this has been discussed many times before, but please indulge me in my therapeutic listmaking. :-)

1. "Save All" under File menu.

2. The ability to flag certain files in a book to not print. i.e., do a Print Book that only prints those files you wish to print.

I too agree with Niels and Sean. One of FrameMaker's biggest strengths is its ability to modularize content in separate files.

What is it, exactly, that Mr. Binar is doing when he's "managing all of these files plus the TOC, List of Figures and List of Tables"? "Managing" in what way?

Cheers,
Riley

I'm with you Niels, as, I suspect, are most FrameMaker users. Didn't think it was worth posting--while Adobe's implementation of the book idea is not complete, there really is nothing you have to go nuts over to manage . . .. In fact, am very pleased it's not all one file like Word. Cheers, Sean.

Couldn't disagree more! I find working with component files far more comfortable and more efficient - small is beautiful, and navigating through a ten-page chapter file is a sight easier than navigating through some humongous six-hundred-and-some page whole-book file.

But opinions aside, one of your question is already answered: hold down Shift before clicking on File, and you'll get the options "Close all files in book" and "Save all files in book".