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)