FrameMaker 8’s release has bloggers writing a few blog entries related to Frame 8’s release.

• Scott Abel on The Content Wrangler posted on Sunday: Adobe Releases FrameMaker 8.0 and Captivate 3 Today
• Sarah O’Keefe says over at Palimpsest: FrameMaker: Still Not Dead
• The Adobe Technical Communication Blog says: FrameMaker 8 will ship by July end
• Anne Gentle at Just write click says: Frame 8 is here: conversion or migration from unstructured FrameMaker to DITA

Notably for DITA authors, DITA is no longer a separate application pack downloaded from Adobe Labs. Previously, installation of that pack had you editing the structapps.fm file by hand and pre- and post-requisite configuration steps, so this integration should make for easier startup for DITA authors in a FrameMaker environment.

It appears that with this release FrameMaker provides a relatively inexpensive print publishing engine option compared to other DITA publishing vendors with the Adobe FrameMaker Server 8 software offering.

So do your homework, read the blog entries and news releases, and see if the FrameMaker and DITA mashup is one you want in your toolkit. DITA info developers, what are your initial thoughts and findings?

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