Decumentation is the means to visualize and describe results. It can be done by the "old-fashioned" paperbased books and reports, or as files with the corresponding contents. By introducing active documents it is possible to browse over hypertext links and show 3-dimensional pictures or movies. The reader himself may control the views and the selection.
The final goal for all documentation is .pdf files created by Acrobat.
FrameMaker is a text editor allowing all above metioned presentations. It has facilities to create documents with complicated structure,.
OmniPage is an OCR (= optical character recognition) software used to extract text from inages..
Form•Z is a grphic editor for 3-dimensionel pictures. It models lines, areas and volumes.
Illustrator is used to create figures.
Photoshop is used to edit images.