Dieter,
You wrote:
Seen from multi-language publishing point of view the recent update
FM 7.2p158 is the most important one for the last years
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3332
If a company wants to stick to FrameMaker for the next years and produces
documentation for the European countries I strongly recommend to update as
soon as possible.
Multiple Undo, numerous bug fixes and the XML related improvements are
really a good basis for the future of Desktop Publishing with or without
XML and be worth the upgrade costs. ...
Just for the record: with very few exceptions, the "numerous bug fixes" you
are referring to are related to new issues introduced in FM7.2
(i.e. for those who did not upgrade to FM7.2, the bug fixes are pretty
insignificant, other than the limited support for some of the missing
characters in the Cyrillic, Central European and Baltic codepages; I am not
sure as to mouse wheel support).
[... and no comments as to the FM7.2 Multiple Undo]
But let's hope that next version of FrameMaker -- whatever its number is
and whenever it is released -- along with useful new functions/features,
will address some of the bugs that have been logged with FrameMaker 5.0
(1994) or earlier, and are brought up in this forum from time to time
(refreshing the screen, dialog box sizing, table sorting issues,
conditional text, spelling, graphic output problems, and many other issues).
And hopefully next version of FM will have a better online help. The help
system for 7.0 was used as is in 7.1 and 7.2 , with its left-over "see on
page" references, along with other problems.
According to the version information, the online help for FM7.2 was
compiled on March 14, 2002 -- i.e. three and a half years before the actual
product was shipped.
Development efforts of the next FM version should also not neglect the PDFs
manuals included with the product (content as well as interactivity;
usefulness as on-screen PDFs is a plus). It would be nice if the FrameMaker
Character Sets PDF is finally inspected and fixed. The FM6.0 version was
used as is in all subsequent versions (including 7.2), despite its reported
inaccuracies. Having all links work in the PDFs would also be nice.
Some examples for the above are at:
http://www.microtype.com/Hmmms.html#0511
http://www.microtype.com/Hmmms.html#0404
http://www.microtype.com/Hmmms.html#0312
Shlomo Perets
MicroType, http://www.microtype.com
Training, consulting & add-ons: FrameMaker, Structured FM and Acrobat
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