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FM9 and TCS2 released

Forum|Forum|17 years ago
January 20, 2009
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For those of you glued to the inauguration today, you may have missed
Adobe's release of FM9 and the TechComm Suite 2 products. More details
are available at:

Vivek Jain's blog:
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2009/01/adobe_technical_communication_suite_2_framemaker_9_and_roboh.html

RJ Jacquez's blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/rjacquez/2009/01/new_year_new_adobe_elearning_s.html

Press release:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pressreleases/200901/012009adobeTechCom2.html

FM9 info: http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/

TCS2 info: http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/

There's also a new e-Learning Suite of products that may be of
interest to some. See: http://www.adobe.com/products/elearningsuite/

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_Jeff_Coatsworth_

Participant

Sorry John - no output to FM9 from RH8 in the TCS 2.0 that I can see. I think it's designed to flow the other way - author in FM, publish to help in RH.

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John_BW

Inspiring

Hi,

In previous versions of the TCS, there was an "import from FrameMaker" function in RoboHelp; however, there was no "output to FrameMaker" (although there was an output to MS Word). In the new version of the TCS, is there a way to output to native FrameMaker documents from RoboHelp?

Thanks,
John B.

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Michael_Müller-Hillebrand-basb

Inspiring

Jim,

Could it be your are asking about hyphenation and justification?

Well, no changes to the layout engine, since... FrameMaker 5.5?

OTOH, that saved many people a lot of problems/work during updates ;-)

- Michael

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Jim_Eisenbraun

Participant

Useful information all around. Does anyone know if there have been any modifications to the h/j engine? along the lines, one hopes, of the InDesign engine?

Jim

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Seanb_us

Inspiring

Thanks for the updates.

I've been wanting CMYK output from FrameMaker since version ... well ... 5.1 Adobe. I'm glad they tackled it. I'm surprised these issues didn't show in beta. I'm not excited with the result, though am very happy that Arnis and Norbert figured it out.

+1 Archive is a great plugin.

Cheers,

Sean

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_Mats_Broberg_

Known Participant

Arnis,

Yes, I have suggested it several times.

Regards,
Mats

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_Mats_Broberg_

Known Participant

Hi,

To you who have tried it out:

Is there a "Package" command that collects fonts, images and docs into a specified folder, as the one in InDesign?

I'm using the Archive plugin in FM8, but that does not take of the fonts issue.

Regards,
Mats

Arnis GubinsAuthor

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Mats,

Unfortunately, no. Bruce's Archive is the only tool for any type of
collection to date.

Perhaps, a suggestion to him that such an enhancement would be well
received might help?

http://home.comcast.net/~bruce.foster/index.html

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Anonymous

Bravo! To Norbert and Arnis, for your persistence and efforts at detecting this egregious problem in FM9.

[Now if we can just get The Powers That Be to understand what a major body-blow they dealt to FM by changing the F9 functionality.]

David_Crowe

Inspiring

>>Adobe's European web store is a total rip-off...

And completely unbalanced:

upgrade in the "French" store = 549 euros for the French edition
upgrade in the "French" store = 477 euros for the English edition;
upgrade in the "UK" store = 362 pounds sterling, or 390 euros.

And last time I heard, all the European stores were serviced from a base in Scotland anyway (although I stand to be corrected on this).

As they don't say in Europe, go figure.

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n42

Known Participant

>Did you also install the PDF creation add-on that came with the trial?

First I did.
After I got this error I uninstalled Adobe Acrobat and FM9.
Then installed Acrobat 8 again and FM9 without this add-on.
Result was the same.

>Did you already have an Adobe PDF printer instance in your installation?

Yes.
May be I should have deleted it between this install- and uninstallations plague.

I'll stop digging further on and uninstall FM9 except somebody tells me exactly what happened what I have to do for a successfully installation of FM9.

Thanks
Norbert

Arnis GubinsAuthor

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FYI, Norbert is correct. I contacted him directly and he forwarded
some samples. After extensive testing with his files and others, using
imported PDFs with the new CMYK SaveAsPDF is broken from the get go.

When using imported PDFs in FM, the CMYK SaveAsPDF option renders
these imported PDFs as low-res RGB TIFFs on output. Yuck! A major
foobar in the latest point version of this release.

HOWEVER, using EPS files works just fine! So converting the PDFs to
EPS before import is a workaround for now.

Arnis GubinsAuthor

Inspiring

Addendum: SaveAsPDF for CMYK

This option (for CMYK output) also fails to generate the Registration
& crop marks when selected (though these work fine for the RGB
version). I hadn't noticed this before, as I always add the crop &
registration in the PDFs in my workflow. Thanks to Hans Christian
Wilter for pointing this out in another thread.

For print production at this time, the current FM9p196 SaveAsPDF CMYK
option is definitely not recommended (by me). Stick to printing to the
AdobePDF printer instance and fixing colours using third-party tools
like Quite-a-Box-of-Tricks, PitStopPro or PubliPDF.

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