Editing Adobe FrameMaker (section)

== Overview ==
FrameMaker became an Adobe product in October 1995 when Adobe purchased Frame Technology Corp.<ref>Nadile, Lisa. [http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=9507120647&site=ehost-live "Adobe to buy Frame, adding content apps to tools."] PC Week 12.25 (1995): 3. Business Source Premier. EBSCO. Web. 6 June 2011.</ref> Adobe added [[SGML]] support, which was eventually adapted into XML support. In April 2004, Adobe stopped supporting FrameMaker for the [[Apple Macintosh|Macintosh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.macworld.com/article/1030037/framemaker.html|title=Adobe discontinues FrameMaker for Macintosh|first1=Jim|last1=Dalrymple|date=2004-03-23|website=macworld.com|access-date=2019-12-28|archive-date=2021-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210306175009/https://www.macworld.com/article/1030037/framemaker.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

This reinvigorated rumors surfacing in 2001 that product development and support for FrameMaker were being wound down. Adobe denied these rumors in 2001,<ref>{{cite web | url= http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/02/09.4.shtml | title= Rumors Of FrameMaker's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated [''sic''] | access-date= 2007-05-26 | date= 2001-02-09 | work= [[The Mac Observer]] | archive-date= 2016-04-25 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160425093414/http://www.macobserver.com/article/2001/02/09.4.shtml | url-status= live }}</ref> later releasing FrameMaker 8 at the end of July 2007, FrameMaker 9 in 2009, FrameMaker 10 in 2011, FrameMaker 11 in 2012, FrameMaker 12 in 2014, FrameMaker (2015 release - confusingly, internal version 13.0) in June 2015, FrameMaker 2017 (internal version 14.0) in January 2017, FrameMaker 2019 (internal version 15.0) in August 2018, FrameMaker 2020 (internal version 16.0) in 2020, and FrameMaker 2022 (internal version 17.0) in 2022.

FrameMaker has two ways of approaching documents: [[Structured writing|structured]] and unstructured.

* Structured FrameMaker is used to achieve consistency in documentation within industries such as [[aerospace]], where several models of the same complex product exist, or pharmaceuticals, where translation and standardization are important requirements in communications about products. Structured FrameMaker uses [[SGML]] and [[XML]] concepts. The author works with an EDD ([[Element Definition Document]]), which is a FrameMaker-specific DTD ([[Document Type Definition]]). The EDD defines the structure of a document where meaningful units are designated as ''elements'' nested in each other depending on their relationships, and where the formatting of these elements is based on their contexts. Attributes or [[Metadata]] can be added to these elements and used for [[single source publishing]] or for filtering elements during the output processes (such as publishing for print or for Web-based display). The author can view the conditions and contexts in a tree-like structure derived from the [[context-free grammar|grammar]] (as specified by the DTD) or as formatted in a typical final output form.
* Unstructured FrameMaker uses tagged paragraphs without any imposed logical structure, except that expressed by the author’s concept, topic organization, and the formatting supplied by paragraph and character tags.

When a user opens a structured file in unstructured FrameMaker, the structure is lost.