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Interview with Martin Fredskov. By Bjørn Smalbro - FrameMaker.dk
Anyone who has worked with graphics in one form or another knows how dependent you are on the huge amount of cheap and good stock graphics available online. There are many stock sites with Adobe Stock, Deposit Photos, Freepik and many, many more.
That’s what I talked to Signe Dilling fra Streger m.m. about.
Signe Dilling does not teach people how to “draw nicely.” She teaches them to use drawing as a tool to create an overview, a sense of safety, and shared understanding in complex educational and social contexts.
Where AI delivers the finished (and often polished) result, the hand-drawn line delivers something completely different:
Presence: A drawing that is created in the moment invites dialogue, not just admiration.
Sense of ownership: When we draw our challenges, we own the solutions.
The new version of Adobe FrameMaker “2026” or “17” has been released. The former version of Adobe FrameMaker 2022, has been pretty solid and Adobe has patched it a couple of times and fixed minor issues.
Time for Adobe FrameMaker 2026!
https://helpx.adobe.com/dk/framemaker/release-note/framemaker-2026-release-notes.html
This new release version, 2026 (18), is not overflowing with new features. There are 2 new features, but they ARE actually nice additions!
Let’s take a look at them!
Copenhagen Boys is a small, Copenhagen‑based project that uses print‑on‑demand to turn hand‑crafted graphic ideas into canvas prints. Every design starts with a human decision – a line, a phrase, a composition – not an automated template or an AI model. The shop functions as a micro‑studio more than a brand: a place where one person’s sensibility is translated directly into physical objects on demand.
The "Abocado Aerospace & Defence - US Letter FrameMaker Template" (yeah, it's a long name) is an Adobe FrameMaker template. It has been custom built to work within the area of aviation, aerospace and defence documentation. These industries have some very specific requirements for their documentation needs.
The main objective is one of documentation granularity. It is important to keep track of all pages, all revisions and have unique id's for all items. In order to track all this stuff, the template must be able to generate, what is called a "List of Effective Pages".
Mastering Adobe Photoshop 2026 is the second edition following the first 2024 version. Two years have passed since the original release of this excellent book. Adobe is fully aware that Photoshop is one of the defining products in its portfolio. They can add and revise features, but they have to be very, very careful doing so, because 90% of the world’s photo work is done using Photoshop. So they tread carefully!..
The Hijuelos framemaker template is by far one our most popular templates.
It is a template meant to bring into framemaker the joy of quickly starting to write and get work done.
While FrameMaker IS a wonderful tool, creating a new blank document will not give you much inspiration for writing, as it comes with next to no formatting options.
This is where the Hijuelos template comes to the impatient writers rescue!
The "Horno" FrameMaker template is meant for quickly and elegantly creating a fiction ebook. We have based the example ebook on famous feminist novel "The Yellow Wallpaper". It will make your blood run cold!
We have even included a settings file which makes things much easier for you.
Use the design option of Publish to create beautiful output deisgns for Adobe FrameMaker templates
Adobe FrameMaker comes with an option to publish your documents to mulitiple outputs like pdf/html5, epub and chm. The design of these outputs can be highly customized. Here we show you how the output designs of our Quiote Template look.
FrameMaker.dk has a great selection of high quality, premade templates for technical documentation.
FrameMaker.dk is one of the oldest and best developers and designers of templates in the technical documentation arena.
I have to admit that I don't - really - like the term "content". Content is the word for handling information in large amounts. Big amounts of technical documentation, medical/medico information, financial information etc. And handling all that information and making it accessible, readable, printable, open for analysis etc is a business in its own, the Content Management business.
Adobe Acrobat Ninja is a handbook for all things pdf. 13 chapters and 328 pages will take you through a systematic and well organized tour into the land of the Acrobats.
PDF has since its inception grown into a sprawling and ubiquitous file format which helps users store, print and send files to each other across platforms. Devised as a kind of closed and final file format based on postscript, pdf has also acquired a creative dimension. You can change and edit most things in pdf files! It is all of this and much more which Urszula Witherell has put into writing in her new book, Adob Acrobat Ninja.
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Welcome to the third part of three, of my Business Case: "Content Marketing for Webshops with Adobe FrameMaker".
Content Marketing is mostly about using the Internet and its all dominant search engine, Google, for pushing your marketing message. We mostly use the term "search engine" about Google, but Google is also a publishing engine. Searching
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Welcome to the second part of three, of my business case: "Content Marketing for Webshops with Adobe FrameMaker".
As short note on the background for this project. I work professionally as a graphic designer on a daily basis with Adobe FrameMaker. And have done so since 1995. FrameMaker is a great, creative and versatile tool and an ideal choice for working with Content Marketing.
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When the idea first had taken root in my mind, I couldn't get it out of my head. Tequila. Tequila and Adobe FrameMaker…
“Adobe InDesign Masterclass” by Mohammed Jogie is a comprehensive guide to Adobe InDesign that caters to all levels of user skills, from beginners to professionals. The book is divided into three parts: InDesign Basics, Beyond the Basics, and Advanced Techniques. Each part contains chapters covering specific aspects of InDesign, from the basics of the interface and toolbox to more advanced topics such as typography, color management, interactivity and AI.
I have been working with technical documentation since 1993. Thirty years. And during those years I have seen a multitude of wonderful design trends come and go in traditional marketing. Color scales going in and out of fashion. Typography changing, image styles changing, photo styles changing. But design in technical documentation has barely changed. Every text in Arial, same page design, same ugly clip art, same boring colors for everthing.
I have used FrameMaker since version 5 when the first Windows version became available for Win95. FrameMaker has always been a solid workhorse, and Adobe has taken a - some would say very - conservative attitude towards updating the software. But Adobe FrameMaker 2017 is certainly off to a good start with an absolutely MAJOR upgrade!
This hammer, this screwdriver, and these pliers used to belong to my father when he was still alive. I got them when he died, and they hang on the wall in my tool shed along with other tools. Some I have bought myself and some came from my fathers collection of tools. And some of the tools come from my grandfather.
I often use both the hammer and the screwdriver and everytime I do, I feel a sort of connection to my father. I look at the dents and scratches and get a sense of him working with these tools. To make a living, to fix things at home and for his many hobbies. They show the wear of that work.
Yes! Yes, you should upgrade to FrameMaker 2022, because it is reliable and you do need the latest revisions. FrameMaker relies on your operating system, other programs and other file formats and in order to make things work, you need to keep up with the times. And on a more personal level - you need to keep your resume up to date.
Adobe shows great caution when it comes to updating and modernizing
Good news for the technical writers and communicators all over the world! The EU is going ahead with "Rights to repair" with the new regulations on ecodesign that took effect on 1 March 2021.
I 90'erne havde vi en ret stor dansk FrameMaker brugergruppe, som desværre lukkede fordi personerne og virksomhederne bag, ikke længere magtede at køre gruppen. Den 16. november stiftede vi en ny FrameMaker brugergruppe, "FrameMaker Users Denmark" i Industriparken 23, Ballerup.
I work as a self employed industrial graphic designer. Meaning I am the one who has to figure out what skills I have to keep up-to-date and what new stuff I have to learn.
The world changes. All the time. New technologies arrive, other disappear or become redundant.
When you are the only one to pay for your education, you learn to prioritize. I have found that it is worth it every two years to take a step backward and try to see the need for skills in a broader perspective. Doing that helps you focus on what skills are more important than others.
So… your lawn mower makes a strange sound and won't start…
Did Google write that text? No - a Technical Writer did!
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