And speaking as a 40-mumbley-aged person, the contrast of the black text on the grey interface sucks, even with my reading glasses. I hate playing with all the pods that fly about. I don't like the focus changing unexpectedly, I just dislike having to pay so much attention to my interface, as it takes away from authoring effort and breaks my concentration.
In general, I really dislike the new interface. It doesn't look like a Windows app and it's hard to use. sharon Sharon Burton Content Consultant www.anthrobytes.com 951-369-8590 IM: sharonvbur...@yahoo.com Twitter: sharonburton Blog:anthrobytes.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharonvburton Darren Butler wrote: > Why Adobe would want to emulate Microsoft is beyond me. What's next, a > dancing paper clip? > > We actually purchased 9.0 then down-graded (yes, you can do that) to > FM8. High volume shop, NO time for an (un)learning curve. > > Are there any menu-to-ribbon road maps that one might recommend? > Eventually, a CMS upgrade will force us to go the FM9. [snip] Their intent was to emulate other *Adobe* apps with floating toolbars and dockable dialogs. Over the years, Adobe had made only small changes to the original circa 1990 user interface that they bought from Frame Technologies in 1995, and many people had complained that the UI didn't look sufficiently Adobe-like. The fact that FrameMaker 9.0 has a UI that looks and acts similarly to Adobe's flagship apps should be a great benefit to the minuscule handful of new users who come to FrameMaker from tools like Photoshop or Illustrator or InDesign, but its value to experienced FrameMaker users is (at best) debatable. -Fred Ridder _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as sha...@anthrobytes.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/sharon%40anthrobytes.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
