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1.1.09 - 4 October 2010
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0.02 - 18 December 2007
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1.1.08 (1.1 release) - 20 October 2009

New Features

New commands
Added the Reference Report command. Generates a report of all resolved or unresolved references in the current map or file as well as any references in referenced files.
Added the Create Archive command to generate a ZIP archive of the current file and all referenced files.
Added the Flatten Conrefs command to unlock conrefs in FM files.
Added the Reset Status command to remove the status attribute values.
Updated support for indexterm elements
The index-see, index-see-also, and index-sort-as elements properly convert to FM marker syntax on import and export back to DITA elements on file save. A subdialog has been added to the Options dialog that allows you to customize the formatting on the imported marker syntax.
The indexterm elements now import as fm-indexterm elements. If you have complex indexterm elements that contain child elements other than indexterm, index-see, index-see-also, and index-sort-as, you can disable the indexterm to fm-indexterm conversion (in Options) in order to preserve the native DITA structure.
Support for graphic overlay objects in anchored frames
Textual callouts and graphic objects within an anchored frame will now round-trip from FrameMaker to DITA and back. The data to define these objects is stored in the DITA data element.
Reference Manager dialog allows browsing for files on disk
The Reference Manager dialog now allows you to browse files on disk in addition to those currently open in FrameMaker. You can add multiple folders to the “File Location” list to locate elements to reference (for xrefs, links, and conrefs).
Also, instead of showing all possible elements the Reference Manager dialog only shows those elements that have id attributes in the target file.
Support for multiple marker types
The fm-data-marker element is a special element that is available only within FrameMaker; it is converted into a regular data element on save to DITA. When inserting an fm-data-marker element it inserts as a marker of any type that you specify. On save to DITA, the datatype attribute is set to “fm:marker,” the name attribute is set to the marker name, and the value attribute is set to the marker text. When you reopen this DITA file, data elements with a datatype of “fm:marker” will convert into markers of type fm-data-marker. A data element whose datatype attribute is not “fm:marker” will import into FrameMaker as a standard container element type.
Support for optional columns in properties tables
According to the DITA specification, a properties table can have one, two, or three columns. In order to support a varying number of columns in a simpletable-based table, the Element Mapping dialog was added to the Options dialog.
Added support for bookmap elements
The map authoring interface provides support for the topic reference elements (topicref, chapter, appendix, etc.). When inserting a topicref-based element that contains an href attribute, you are prompted to specify a target filename.
Enhanced map to book processing
The Generate Book from Map command handles conversion of a bookmap into an FM book in a similar way to the conversion of a map. All “top-level” topic references are converted into an FM file, and any child topicrefs are appended to that file. Any topic references within a frontmatter or backmatter wrapper element are considered “top-level” topic references and become FM files. Additionally, if your bookmap uses a part element to organize chapters, the file referenced by the part will become a separate FM file, and each chapter will be considered a top-level topic reference and will be added to the book after the generated part file.
Provide the ability to include FM binary files in the generated book. This allows you to create a book that includes both DITA files as well as unstructured FM files. Particularly useful for including a well designed title page but could be useful for other purposes as well.
Numerous options are available that affect processes run on the generated book. This includes adding related-links from reltables, and moving the fig/title to the end of the fig element (among numerous other options).
Faster reference resolving
Instead of needing to open each referenced DITA file in FrameMaker to resolve any nested references, this reference resolving is done “on disk” before the file is opened, and only the appropriate files are opened and resolved as needed. This results in much faster file opening times for files that make heavy use of references. For example, one small file that previously took 11 seconds to open, now takes 4 seconds.
Better Whitespace Normalization
This update now handles whitespace cleanup better than before. If you are working on a multi-editor environment, you should no longer see “<WHITESPACE>” nodes or extra spaces where they aren’t needed.
Updated Set Attributes command
The Set Attributes command now allows specification of predefined values for attributes of the “String” type. If values are specified in the filtering-groups.ini file for a “String” attribute, those values will display in a scrolling list.
XDocs 2.0 integration
Developed the XDocsFMx connector to provide a seamless document management, authoring, and publishing environment.
New options
Added Use doctype/application mapping option to support the use of topic-based DTDs (and structure applicaitons) instead of the combined model provided by the ditabase DTD. (You’ll need to create your own structure applications to support the topic-based DTDs, DITA-FMx only provides the ditabase-based app.)
You can now specify that IDs are generated as a GUID (globally unique id) or a QUID (quasi unique id, the previous shorter and most always unique value).
Added Auto smart-quotes similar in function to the Auto smart-spaces option.
Added Use fmdpi for New Images option. Automatically sets the “fmdpi” value to the DPI selected when inserting an image.
Added the Conditionalize data and data-about option. This allows you to hide or flag data and data-about elements if needed.
Added indexterm to fm-indexterm option to enable/disable the round-tripping of DITA-based indexterm elements into FM-based markers and syntax. (This option is enabled by default.)
DITA-OT environment setup parameter is now set via the DITA Options: External Apps dialog.
Added handling for simpletable tables with multiple cell element names (specifically properties table). See Element Mapping dialog in DITA Options
Added an Index Options dialog for control of the import and export of index-see and index-see-also elements.
Added the Book Builds dialog to define the automated processes that are run on a newly generated FM book file.
Moved Wrap in dita element option to the New DITA File dialog.
Now automatically sets the status attribute on new and changed elements with the Set @status for new/changed elements option.
Added the Use wide Reference Manager option. This provides a wider Reference Manager for those that need it.

Structure Application Updates

Updated to support DITA 1.1
Added DITA 1.1 elements to all structure applications.
Default Topic application is less “book-like”
Because DITA-sourced content may be used for many types of output, we have removed many of the print-specific layout and formatting features from the default Topic application. This helps authors to focus on the content rather than the formatting, and results in topics that are more useful in all deliverable formats. The main typeface used is now Verdana.
Added FM-specific elements
Added fm-indexterm as a marker element that has the same attributes as the standard indexterm element. The indexterm element is now a “container” element. (For backwards compatibility, if a structure application contains an indexterm element that is defined as a “marker” element type, it will be used instead of the fm-indexterm element.)
Added the fm-data-marker element as a “marker” element type.
Changed the fm-topicreflabel element to fm-reflabel since it is now used by elements other than topicref. (For backwards compatibility, if a structure application contains the fm-topicreflabel, that will be used in place of the fm-reflabel.)
Customization and localization (topic and book applications)
To lessen the level of effort in EDD/template customization and localization, some elements that formerly received prefix text directly from the EDD now have that text applied via a paragraph tag or set of paragraph tags in the template. With a plan to include more elements in the future, this version took this approach with the note and permissions elements.
The note prefix text is now applied using a set of template paragraph tags. With the exception of “other,” each note type attribute value now maps to a similarly named note paragraph tag. For example, a note type of “danger” maps to a paragraph tag named note.danger.
To further help support both localization and customization, the first and left indents for note are set in the EDD using variables, indent_1, indent_2, index_3, and indent_4. Changing those variable values will change the indents for both the note and the screen elements.
The permissions element is now mapped to a set of prolog.permissions paragraph tags.
The prefix text for the example element has been dropped.
The codeblock element has a set of paragraph tags for its various contexts. This set of tags all begin with name codeblock (codeblock.ol.ul.first, codeblock.ol.ul, etc.).
The syntaxdiagram element is now mapped to a syntaxdiagram paragraph tag.
The prolog element is now mapped to a prolog paragraph tag.
Color definitions have been altered to be more consistent between the topic and book applications.
Map/Bookmap application
Various levels of indentation have been added for the topicref-type elements that occur in bookmaps.
The relcolspec element now displays attribute values for type, collection-type, and linking when in reltables, and collection-type and linking in other contexts.
The indexterm element is now mapped to an index character tag.
The vrm element’s prefix text has been modified.

Bug Fixes

Baseline offset now supported
The baseline offset property of an image cannot be set through the read/write rules file. To set this property you must use the BaselineOffset parameter in the INIOnly section of the ditafmx.ini file.
image/alt element now supported
The image/alt element now round-trips from DITA to FM. While in FrameMaker, the content of the alt element is stored in the image/@alt attribute. To edit the “alt” text, edit the @alt attribute value. Note that any child elements of the alt element or attributes on the alt element are discarded when the file is opened in FM. A warning message is written to the console window on file open if attributes or child elements are detected.
UNC path improvements
Working with files in folders on a UNC mapped network drive (“\\servername”) will now result in the relative paths being saved properly (as relative paths) rather than as absolute UNC paths.
xref/link issues
All xref and link @href values are now written with backslashes.
New file naming issue
If the file name for a new file contains a period, it was incorrectly assumed to represent the file extension. Now if a file does not end with “.dita” or “.xml” the default file extension is appended.
Long application names display properly in Options dialog
A structure application name that wraps to multiple lines in the structure application definitions file now show the entire name in the Options dialog.
Changing the DPI of an image that uses the fmdpi feature will update properly
Images that use the fmdpi feature now properly update the fmdpi value when the DPI of an image is changed.
topicref/@navtitle is not added if @navtitle has been removed from the EDD
When building topicrefs, if the EDD has been customized to remove the navtitle attribute, that attribute is longer automatically added (causing an invalid structure).
Where Used now searches in maps
The Where Used command now properly reports instances of topics in maps.
Search in Files now ignores URLs
The Search in Files command now ignores URLs when scanning for files to search.