FrameMaker

FrameMaker

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A commercial document preparation program produced by Frame Technology Corporation who were taken over by Adobe Systems, Inc. in 1995/6. FrameMaker is available for a wide variety of workstations and is designed for technical and scientific documents. It uses a powerful system of templates and paragraph styles to control WYSIWYG formatting. It supports graphics, tables, and contents pages among other things.

Version: FrameMaker 6, due April 2000.

See also Maker Interchange Format.
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