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

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

Kapil Verma| @kapilvermaadobe | Email [email protected]

Sr. Product Manager – FrameMaker line of products

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A little bit about myself..

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• 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


Key trends shaping the tech comm industry


Key trends that are shaping the tech comm industry today

Momentum for structured authoring remains strong

Rapid Mobile penetration driving major implications on content distribution

Increasing usage of rich media in technical communication

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

Content creation is becoming a much more collaborative activity

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Movement to structured authoring is picking up

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29%

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2008 2009 2011

Scriptorium SDL

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

87%

45%

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Source: Scriptorium 2009, 2011 survey. SDL survey 1)Adobe survey to STC tech comm professionals 2012, N=237

Our own survey in 2012 reveals that 38% are already

doing/migrating /planning to move 1 to structured authoring


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

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22% 21% 37%

6% 14%

13% 39%

33%

26%

32% 31% 24%

Small Medium Large

Structured Authoring Migration Trends Percent of total responses 1,2

No plans to move

Undecided OR don't know

Planning to migrate

Already doing OR migrating

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?

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Smartphone sales have already surpassed total PC shipments in 2011 and are expected to become the dominant category

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Smartphones Tablet PC

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CAGR 2011-15

Source: Credit Suisse, Morgan Stanley and IDC research

Smartphone sales have surpassed PC

sales last year

Mobile expected to become more

dominant category


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

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27%

3%

15%

Currently Publishing Plan to publish

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

EPUB Kindle

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








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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

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~58% of the

respondents

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33%

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Use images/vector art in their technical content

Use videos

Use hotspot linked images

Use audio clips

Use 3D models

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








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Lastly, more is being asked from fewer resources

Economic woes continue..

..while budgets are getting cut

Higher productivity demanded


This trend is getting reflect in a recent survey *

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Number of UA employees

Number or scope of projects

Workload due to staff changes

13% 68% 19%

Reduction No Change Increase

4% 53% 42%

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

http://www.writersua.com/surveys/salary12/index.html








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User generated content revolution is upon us..

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

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

>3.5 Million articles to date

48 Hours of Video uploaded Every Minute

Source: Lit search • http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet

-2010-in-numbers/

http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/01/12/internet-2010-in-numbers/

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..

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AUTHOR PUBLISH

Traditional Content Creation Workflow


..and looks like this

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Author

Collaborate

Publish

Curate

Author-2-author and Author-2-SME

collaboration

Refine content based on end user

feedback


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

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STRUCTURED/XML AUTHORING

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

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Output / WYSIWYG XML source

<topic>

<title>

<body>













</body>

</title>

</topic> • View and edit the

underlying XML source • Coloring and

indentation to support authoring in source view

• Current output view in FrameMaker

• Important for DTP, authors and a key strength of FrameMaker

Author

• Plain author view with no tags and minimal presentation of content (e.g. no pagination, format)

• Authors focus on the content and not on output

Multi-view FrameMaker editing environment

Other key points

• 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

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

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)


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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

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DEMO


We have also made under the hood improvements to result in better performance when working with large XML files

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3.0

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Content heavy

DITA Format

DITA Conref

DITA Xref

Dense element tag

FM10

FM11

398.8

XML Open Performance improvement 1,2

Avg. File Open time in 5 repetitions, in seconds Performance improvement Percent

97%

18%

-3%

60%

14%

Source: Internal testing with 5 different types of XML files 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

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DEMO


RICH MEDIA


Making 3D even more dynamic

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JavaScript

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

Associate and run JavaScript on the 3D model

http://openclipart.org/


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

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Set poster by

picking a frame from video

Create interactive links with popular

video formats (FLV & SWF)

Import MP4 videos

VIDEO


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

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HOTSPOTS

Hotspots

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• Define “hotspots” on images/graphic

objects with internal/external links

• All supported shapes (e.g. rectangle,

circle, triangle etc.) can be used

• PDF, web and many other outputs

through FMPS supported

• Easily manage through hotspots pod


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PRODUCTIVITY


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

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Topic

Title

p

Body

ol

li

li

image

tgroup

table

tbody

row


Be more productive when working with various objects in FM11

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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

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• 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

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• 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

Key enhancements to find/change


Create your own FrameMaker 11 experience (really) !!

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FM11 has workspaces to enable easy loading of the

UI layout with desired pods/panels

FM11 comes with standard workspaces to suite different roles and

workflows. These can be further customized

Now in FM11, you can also customize your

menus that are available in a certain workspace. For example, you can

hide entire or sub menus in a workspace


DEMO


MOBILE


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


FMPS11: Embracing the Multiscreen Revolution

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KINDLE BOOK

MOBILE APPS

NATIVE MOBILE

APPS


DEMO


COLLABORATION


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

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+ any other “webdav” enabled 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


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

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Leading XML/DITA CMS Integration with FM

xDocs

•We are working to add more names to this list

* Intgration needs to be certified with FM11, currently certified with FM10 **Integration is certified with FM9 only

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

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

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Tree view of CMS repository visible

inside FM

Check out and edit documents inside FM

Access several key CMS functions from

the tree view

Perform search/advanced

search


Next Steps..

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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

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Play!

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Price Full ($999) Edu ($399)

Full ($14,999)

Upgrade Path FM 10 ($399) FM 9 ($599)

FM Server 10 ($5,999)

FM Server 9 ($8,999)

Subscription N.A. N.A.

Language English, French, German, Japanese

English

Decide!

FrameMaker 11 FM Publishing Server 11


Q&A

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Appendix

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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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