FrameMaker
Overview
Document processor
A document processor is a document preparation system that superficially resembles a word processor. However, the emphasis in a document processor is on the arrangement of the document's components, not the formatting of the characters that compose it...
for the production and manipulation of large structured document
Structured document
A structured document is an electronic document where some method of embedded coding, such as markup, is used to give the whole, and parts, of the document various structural meanings according to a schema...
s. It is produced by Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems
Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
. Although FrameMaker has evolved slowly in recent years, it maintains a strong following among professional technical writer
Technical writer
A technical writer is a professional writer who designs, creates, and maintains technical documentation...
s.
FrameMaker has more or less kept up with the times in supporting new standards such as XML
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
and WebDAV
WebDAV
Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning is a set of methods based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol that facilitates collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers...
, but at heart it is a proprietary single-desktop-oriented system based on a binary file format.
