FrameMaker 11: What’s new in FM11 & FM11 Publishing Server (Lavacon2012)

FrameMaker 11: What’s new in FrameMaker 11 and FrameMaker 11
Publishing Server
Kapil Verma| @kapilvermaadobe | Email kverma@adobe.com
Sr. Product Manager – FrameMaker line of products

© 2012 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential.

A little bit about myself..

• Manage FrameMaker and
FrameMaker Publishing Server

• Responsible for product
strategy and roadmap,
customer relationship and
partner ecosystem
management

• Attend several Tech Comm.
focused conferences
throughout the year

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Key trends shaping the tech comm industry


Key trends that are shaping the tech comm industry today

1 Momentum for structured authoring remains strong

2 Rapid Mobile penetration driving major implications on content distribution

3 Increasing usage of rich media in technical communication

4 Challenging economic conditions result in the need to “do more with less”

5 Content creation is becoming a much more collaborative activity


Movement to structured authoring is picking up

% of respondents who are already doing structured authoring
% of total, SDL and Scriptorium surveys

45% 45%
42%
40%
35% 87%
29% 28%
30%
25%
20%
15%
15%
10%
Our own survey in 2012 reveals
5% that 38% are already
N/A N/A
doing/migrating /planning to
0% move 1 to structured authoring
2008 2009 2011
Scriptorium SDL

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. 8 Source: Scriptorium 2009, 2011 survey. SDL survey
1)Adobe survey to STC tech comm professionals 2012, N=237

As expected, structured authoring penetration is higher in larger
corporations though there are significant number SMBs doing it as well

Structured Authoring Migration Trends
Percent of total responses 1,2

24%
32% 31%

No plans to move
26% Undecided OR don't know
33% Planning to migrate
39%
13% Already doing OR migrating

14%
6% 50%
35% 37%
28%
22% 21%

Small Medium Large

Source: FrameMaker Survey to STC members (2012)
1) Sample Sizes: Small (1-99 FTE): 77; Medium (100-999):70; Large (>=1K FTE):90
2) Survey question:At what stage of structured authoring journey are you currently?


Smartphone sales have already surpassed total PC shipments in 2011
and are expected to become the dominant category
WW Units sales by category WW Units sales by category
In million units In million units
Smartphones Tablet PC Smartphones Tablet PC

CAGR
2011-15

1,176 26%
Mobile expected to
1,050
become more
dominant category

PC
535

Smartphone sales 885 482
have surpassed PC
sales last year 433 352
688 282

11% 390 216
535

Mobile
472 482
433 133
390 357
347 357 352 50%
1,176
293 305 299 70 1,050
282 347
885
216
172 305 19 688
139 293
133 472
70 299
139 172
19
2008A 2009A 2010A 2011A 2012E 2013E 2014E 2015E 2008A 2009A 2010A 2011A 2012E 2013E 2014E 2015E

Source: Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and IDC research


Our survey of tech comm professionals reflects their strong interest in
mobile publishing

Publishing to mobile trends
% of respondents publishing/planning to publish to mobile outputs, N=237

EPUB Kindle

27%

15%

5%
3%

Currently Publishing Plan to publish

Source: FrameMaker Survey to STC members (2012), N=237


Increasing Demand For Rich Media In Technical Communication


As a result, we are seeing increasing use of rich media in technical
documentation to liven up the content

~58% Use images/vector art in their technical content
of the
respondents

Use videos 41%

33% Use hotspot linked images

Use audio clips 18%
11% Use 3D models

Source: FrameMaker Survey to STC members (2012), N=237

Lastly, more is being asked from fewer resources

..while budgets are getting cut
Economic woes continue..

Higher productivity
demanded


This trend is getting reflect in a recent survey *

Reduction No Change Increase

Number of UA employees 13% 68% 19%

Workload due to staff changes 4% 53% 42%

Number or scope of projects 6% 72% 23%

Technical writing professionals are facing pressure to be more productive!
* The 2012 Writers UA Salary Survey: http://www.writersua.com/surveys/salary12/index.html


User generated content revolution is upon us..

230 Million tweets per day; ~2.6K tweets /second

More than 30 billion pieces of content (photos, links,
stories etc.) shared each month

48 Hours of Video uploaded Every Minute

>3.5 Million articles to date Source: Lit search
• http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet
-2010-in-numbers/


..which means that “Democratization” of Content Creation is happening


This also means the content creation workflow is changing..

Traditional Content Creation Workflow

AUTHOR PUBLISH


..and looks like this

Author
Refine content
based on end user Author-2-author
feedback and Author-2-SME
collaboration

Curate Collaborate

Publish


What’s new in FrameMaker 11 and FrameMaker Publishing Server
11?


STRUCTURED/XML AUTHORING


In FrameMaker11, we are providing a multi-view XML authoring
environment to our users to meet their varying needs
Multi-view FrameMaker editing environment

XML source Author Output / WYSIWYG

<topic>
<title>

<body>

 

 
 

</body>

</title>

</topic>
• View and edit the • Plain author view with no • Current output view in
underlying XML source tags and minimal FrameMaker
• Coloring and presentation of content • Important for DTP,
indentation to support (e.g. no pagination, format) authors and a key
Other key points authoring in source • Authors focus on the strength of
view content and not on output FrameMaker
• Users can edit the XML document in any view and the changes reflect in all the views (without having to manually save the file)
• Option for the organization to enable / disable any view *
• Different view with different functionality exposed (can be further customized)

In addition, we have enhanced our XML/DITA support in FrameMaker11
with support for XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0
Key capabilities

• Ability to write and run Xpath expressions. XPath 2.0 supported
• Query builder for writing complex queries, along with auto-suggest
• Set the scope i.e. current file/all files/folder/ditamap/book
• Comprehensive results pod for navigation and saving of results
• Access history of last 15 queries

• Run an XSL transformation within FrameMaker 11. XSLT 2.0 supported
• Define and store “transformations” for later use.
• Global and application specific transformations supported
• Set the scope i.e. current file/all open files/folder
• Ability to choose the XSLT processor by the user (in addition to XALAN
and SAXON)

* Based on internal testing with various types of XML files and DITAmaps

DEMO


On the DITA front, we have made several enhancements to enable easy
professional publishing of DITA Maps

Enhanced options for publishing DITAMap

 Generate a flat/nested book/composite doc

 Automatically generate TOC, Index, List of Tables, LoF

 Specify different templates for each level (Chapter,

Section, Sub-Section)

 Option to set page numbering, chapter, section, sub-

section numbering and pagination


DEMO


We have also made under the hood improvements to result in better
performance when working with large XML files
XML Open Performance improvement 1,2 Performance improvement
Avg. File Open time in 5 repetitions, in seconds Percent

398.8 97%
Dense element tag
11.8

57.7
DITA Xref 18%
47.3

FM10 35.1
DITA Conref -3%
FM11 36.1

20.5
DITA Format 60%
8.1

3.5
Content heavy
3.0 14%

© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. Source: Internal testing with 5 different types of XML files
31
1) Files were opened and closed 5 times, and average open time was computed
2) Other apps running on the test system were Acrobat, MS Word and Browser

Lastly, we have focused on improving usability in several XML workflows

 New and improved “New XML dialog” incl.
direct reference to DTD

 Untitled XML files

 Ability to directly refer OLE objects in XML
files (configurable)

 Strawman and banner text

 Others
 Structure view can be expanded to any width

 Assign ID to DITA elements

 Roundtrip table cell properties in XML

 Roundtrip AF and EQ in XML

DEMO


RICH MEDIA


Making 3D even more dynamic

Create links to part, view and
animations stored within the 3D
model

Automatically generate linked table
of views/animation/components

Provide interactivity between 3D
parts and the content

JavaScript Associate and run JavaScript on the
3D model
© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. 35 • Image courtsey: PlusDF.de, http://openclipart.org

We have taken our interactive support with rich media to the next level
with our video enhancements

VIDEO
Set poster by
picking a frame
from video

Create interactive
links with popular
video formats (FLV &
SWF)

Import MP4 videos


Now in FM11, you can define hotspots on images, vector illustration
among others to provide more interactivity to end users
HOTSPOTS

• Define “hotspots” on images/graphic
objects with internal/external links

Hotspots • All supported shapes (e.g. rectangle,
circle, triangle etc.) can be used

Aliquam quis ante est. Proin nec ligula sed lacus • PDF, web and many other outputs
venenatis blandit sagittis bibendum orci. Donec
malesuada mollis lorem. through FMPS supported
Emperor Penguin adults are about 1.1 m (3 ft
7 in) tall and weigh 35 kg (75 lb) or more
, eget dignissim lectus facilisis sed. Proin volutpat • Easily manage through hotspots pod
bibendum hendrerit. Vivamus nec ligula


DEMO


PRODUCTIVITY


Now you can get your unstructured content to DITA/other XML easily
through the new “Smart Paste” feature
Topic

Title

Body

p

ol

li

li

image

table

tgroup

tbody

row

Be more productive when working with various objects in FM11

 Create and apply styles to
objects i.e. graphic, anchored
frames, text frames, graphic
frames, equations, and text
line

 Object style designer and
object catalog

 Flag and remove overrides

 Structured workflow support


Use your keyboard to smartly insert elements, attributed and even work
with styles, conditional tags, variables etc

• Inline catalogs

• Type ahead supported

• Insert single element
or nested structure in
one click

• Inline attribute editor

FM 8 behavior of cycling
through the style list by
repeatedly pressing the first
letter is supported in FM 11!


DEMO


Several enhancements have been made to the Find/change dialog

Key enhancements to find/change

• RegEx support in XML code view

• When opened with text selected, Find field

is automatically populated with selection

• Dialog retains focus after performing a find

• Last 5 searched items are remembered

• Repeat your last search - F3 (search

forward) and Shift-F3 (search backward)

• Find/Change opens by default in a floating

dialog, making it easier to find among

other panels and UI controls

Create your own FrameMaker 11 experience (really) !!

FM11 comes with
Now in FM11, you can standard workspaces to
also customize your suite different roles and
menus that are available workflows. These can be
in a certain workspace. further customized
For example, you can
hide entire or sub menus
in a workspace

FM11 has workspaces to
enable easy loading of the
UI layout with desired
pods/panels


DEMO


MOBILE


Mobile Revolution: A Fundamental shift in the way content is consumed


FMPS11: Embracing the Multiscreen Revolution

NATIVE
MOBILE KINDLE
APPS BOOK

MOBILE APPS


DEMO


COLLABORATION


FrameMaker11 provides out-of-the-box integration with several leading
CMS

Content creation collaboration at no extra cost

FrameMaker ships with
native connectors to
Documentum and
Sharepoint and also
integrates with several
CMS which support
webdav

In FM11, we now
support custom
attributes with
Documentum and
Sharepoint

+ any other “webdav” enabled CMS


In addition, we do provide integration with several of the leading CCMS
in the XML and DITA space

Leading XML/DITA CMS Integration with FM

 *


xDocs  *


 *

 *


 **

•We are working to add more names to this list
© 2010 Adobe Systems Incorporated. All Rights Reserved. Adobe Confidential. 53 * Intgration needs to be certified with FM11, currently certified with FM10
**Integration is certified with FM9 only

In FM11, we are exposing a CMS connector layer which will enable our
partners/customers to build a tighter integration at less development cost

CMS Connector
Framework CMS


With this framework, it will be possible to build seamless connectivity
between FrameMaker and your own CMS
Perform
search/advanced
search

Check out and edit
documents inside FM

Tree view of CMS
repository visible
inside FM

Access several key
CMS functions from
the tree view


Next Steps..


Learn!

 FrameMaker 11 Reviewer’s guide
has complete information and
more than 20 videos along with
how-to tasks for all the new
features
 Watch new feature videos on our
Tech Comm channels on YouTube
and Adobe TV
 Detailed Version comparison
chart of FM11 with previous
versions
 Extensive documentation available
in both PDF and online form in
FrameMaker 11 User guide
 FrameMaker 11 datasheet


Play!


Decide!

FrameMaker 11 FM Publishing
Server 11
Price Full ($999) Full ($14,999)
Edu ($399)

Upgrade Path FM 10 ($399) FM Server 10
FM 9 ($599) ($5,999)
FM Server 9
($8,999)

Subscription N.A. N.A.

Language English, French, English
German, Japanese

Q&A


Appendix


Some other general authoring enhancements

 Line numbers in all views

 Added new 6 new H/F markers and associated variables

 Configure creation of FM facet when working with several image formats

 Configurable dictionary support in FM11 (Proximity and Hunspell)


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