Adobe FrameMaker 8.0
Adobe FrameMaker is a desktop publishing (DTP) application that is popular for large documents. It is produced by Adobe Systems. Although FrameMaker has evolved slowly in recent years, it maintains a strong following among professional technical writers. As an all-in-one package optimized for technical writers, FrameMaker remains unrivalled (although many high-end Technical Publication departments are moving to Arbortext and other XML-based systems due to their abilities for robust content single sourcing capabilities).
FrameMaker has more or less kept up with the times in supporting new standards such as XML and WebDAV, but at heart it is a proprietary single-desktop-oriented system based on a binary file format. While problems exist in FrameMaker's XML incarnation, FrameMaker supports authoring in an XML-based workflow considerably better than Microsoft Word.
Adobe FrameMaker 8 software is a powerful authoring and publishing solution for technical communicators and an essential upgrade for existing FrameMaker users who want to author and publish technical documentation in multiple languages.
FrameMaker became an Adobe product in 1995 when Adobe purchased Frame Technology Corp. Adobe added SGML support, which eventually morphed into today's XML support. In April of 2004, Adobe ceased support of FrameMaker for the Macintosh.
This reinvigorated rumours that surfaced in 2001 stating that product development and support for FrameMaker are being wound down. Adobe strenuously denied these rumors in 2001. Adobe released Framemaker 8 at the end of July of 2007.