Folks,
Worrying about whether the latest versions of FrameMaker are, or are
not, available for a particular OS and platform is not productive at
all. Whether we know and/or agree/disagree with Adobe's reasons for
dropping the Mac version is not anything we can or should waste any
[more] time on.
Yes, grass-roots efforts to make changes sometimes work, but this one
(i.e., trying to get Adobe to provide recent versions of FrameMaker
on a Mac) has failed multiple times. Let's move on and get over it.
FWIW, I have been using FrameMaker since 1988 - off and on - on old
Sun 3's running SunOS, through the latest version running on my laptop
on Windows XP. Including a brief stint on a Mac, although not for any
serious large document.
The point is that it is the application that is important - not the OS.
The OS and platform are merely tools to get the job done (and ultimately
so is the application too!).
I use whatever *application* makes the task at hand easier. So, I have
three different computers in my office - two Windows systems and a
Sun Solaris system (no Mac, because I have no particular need for an
application that is specific to that platform/OS only). Depending on
what I need to do, I reach for a different keyboard and mouse and focus
on the task.
Yes, if, for some strange reason, someday, Adobe drops FrameMaker as
a product, I will also change and will find another solution and make
it work for what I need done - warts and all - because that is life.
Regards,
Z
Combs, Richard wrote:
Steve Rickaby wrote:
However, FrameMaker has a much older code base, so the effort
to migrate it to XCode would be proportionately greater. For
all I know, some parts of FrameMaker might be coded in
Assembler for speed. If this is the case, moving such code to
a multi-platform production base such as XCode would be all
the more complex, and might involve a major re-coding effort.
All this ups cost and reduces margins.
Give it up, Steve. You're using logic and reason, and the True Believers
aren't swayed by those. In fact, references to "cost" and "margins" are
downright offensive to the Keepers of the Dogma. Hang the cost -- Adobe
shouldn't "betray the faith"!
I expect that the more extreme fundamentalist Apple-ists will threaten
to behead you any time now for your apostasy. You're the Salman Rushdie
of the Macintosh! ;-)
Richard
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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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