[Closed] FrameMaker 7.x/8 Feature Requests

I'd like to add to my vote to the discussion about spell checking on the fly. Word does this really nicely--you can see immediately if you've misspelled something. Would be nice to see in FM, if it could be done without compromising core functionality.

With Microsoft's new XDocs documents, based on XML, in Office.Net, can we expect seamless integration when moving documents between Word.Net and the next version of FrameMaker? XML seems to be at the heart of both applications, since it is the future of publishing, the web and information exchange. Maybe if we save documents as XML files? Perhaps XDocs will work with Frame 7's current XML support?

You could use IX gen for item number 1.

Two big ones:

1. Alter find-and-replace so that you can find marker text and replace the text within the marker rather than replacing the entire ^&$^ marker with your replacement text.

2. A reporting feature that allows me to see (on the book level) what paragraph and character formats are defined in a book, and which chapters use which formats.

(Yes, I'm aware there are third-party tools available. I've test-driven SYSTEC's Toolbox 7 free, but can't tell if their Toolbox Package 1 does this)

Didn't mean to get drawn into this huge thread, but had to reply to message 108 "you cannot make changes in [Word's] Print Preview." That is not true -- as you use Print Preview to look for bad page breaks, etc., you can click the mag. glass, then the page, to see details of a page. Next, you can click the mag. glass "off," and make any edits you desire. Very handy for checking/fixing facing-pages, widows, etc. problems, and to get a "warm fuzzy" that your pages are really ready to go. I'd welcome it in Frame.

"View just this graphic" - check one graphic in situ without having to load every image in the document.

Thanks.

I'll stop at 2-up. Thanks.

Zoom out even further to get 3-up, 4-up, 5-up, etc...

Zoom out to get a 2-up view.