At 11:01 am +1100 18/11/05, Marcus Carr wrote: >That's why I've sent it to your personal address. I've also sent it to Framers >because I think there's a message for everyone. We non-Mac users do feel sorry >for the fact that you've lost your platform support, but we've all got to be >realistic. If Adobe asked us whether we would prefer them to put FrameMaker >resources into a) supporting the Mac platform, or b) improving the Windows >version and looking at Linux support, our sympathy would melt like an ice >cream in the sun in favour of our own self-interests. Surely you know that's >true? > >Nobody's dancing on your grave, but the decision has been made and I have no >reason to think that it'll be changed in the near future. At some point, >you're just going to have to get over it. Sorry, but that's life.
Agreed. I think perhaps some of the annoyance is due to Adobe's handling of FrameMaker over the past ten years, rather than to its attitude to it now. If they really are committing resources to its further development, I'll be delighted. But its complete absence from a major on-line survey is not to me an indication that things really have changed. I think the message here is that the tool is greater than any adherence to any one platform: if we need to use FrameMaker, we'll use it on whatever we have to. It's a tribute to FrameMaker, really. But equally, Mac user's annoyance is a tribute to the Mac ;-) Personally, I have a couple of older machines that can act as perfectly good FrameMaker 6 or 7 hosts, even if it packs up in Classic. When and if FrameMaker 8 for PC comes out with a slew of new killer features, I'll run FrameMaker on PC. Or MacIntel, or whatever. Onwards and upwards... -- Steve -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives: http://lists.frameusers.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?visit=framers Website: http://www.FrameUsers.com Administration: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You are subscribed to framers as: [email protected] Send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to unsubscribe.
