A commercial document preparation program produced by frame technology corporation who were taken over by adobe systems, inc. in 1995/6. FrameMaker is available for a wide variety of workstations and is designed for technical and scientific documents. It uses a powerful system of templates and paragraph styles to control wysiwyg formatting. It supports graphics, tables, and contents pages among other things.

Version: FrameMaker 6, due April 2000.

See also maker interchange format.