Considering that Microsoft couldn't seem to port Internet Explorer to
OS X, it must be insurmountable.
Scott
At 5:12 PM +0000 3/1/07, Paul Findon wrote:
Steve Rickaby wrote:
>"Although MacOS X has UNIX underpinnings, the difficult
stuff relating to user interfaces, font access, output,
etc. is all exclusive to MacOS X"
In other words, the difficult stuff has all been dealt with for
GoLive, Illustrator, InDesign, etc. etc. So Adobe employs people
who know how to get a document to print on a Mac, even under the
formidably taxing OSX. It just chose not to put them to work on
FM, because there was little demand for its previous, non-OSX,
new-feature-thin FM upgrades. Terrific.
There may be other factors at work here. To create universal
binaries that will work on OS X across MacIntel and PowerPC
platforms, Adobe has to migrate their code base to XCode, the Apple
development system. That process is, as I understand it, well under
way for the CS 2 applications.
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.
Who's side are you on, Steve ;-)
In the early '90s, I made many a manual with Adobe FrameMaker 3.0
for NeXTSTEP.
Hang on. Aren't NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X both built on BSD?
Hang on. Aren't NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X both built on the Mach kernel?
Hang on. Aren't NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X both object-orientated environments?
Hang on. Don't NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X both support Objective-C?
Hang on. NeXTSTEP used Display PostScript, Mac OS X uses PDF. Isn't
PDF based on PostScript?
Hang on. Don't NeXTSTEP and Mac OS X both support Type 1 fonts?
Hang on. Weren't NeXTSTEP app developers some of the first to port
their apps to Mac OS X?
How difficult could it be?
Paul
<http://www.fm4osx.org/>
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