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. (2000-04-04)