What’s new in FrameMaker Publishing Server

PDF publishing has been enhanced and made much faster and seamless for a composite document and a book with FrameMaker components.

You can now quickly generate a composite book with a much improved workflow. The composite document is a basic PDF without any title, table of contents, list of figures, and other components. Composite documents generally require importing many documents and media files which is now done much more quickly. Keyspace generation and content resolution are also now done very efficiently before the PDF is generated.

With the new, improved workflow, you can also very efficiently generate the PDF through the book with the FrameMaker components route (Flat Book Hierarchy), where you get the title page, table of contents, front matter, back matter, list of figures or tables, and other book components.

Depending on the references used in your DITA map, the performance of PDF generation has increased by 5x compared to the earlier FrameMaker versions, so now you can generate a composite document or book with FrameMaker components very efficiently.

Graphics are a key component of your PDF output. Now the graphics in your PDF output of both structured and unstructured documents have been significantly improved. Various graphic objects like dashed lines, arcs, shapes, and curves are drawn very uniformly, and the edges are sharply defined. The corners and curves in the objects are crisp and clear. Unlike the previous versions, the quality isn't compromised even when you zoom the output.