On the other hand, faced with clients who keep asking me to port their
Frame manuals into Word so they can make text edits, I would welcome a
relatively inexpensive 'Frame Light" product. As it presently stands,
clients will not buy Frame, and find PDF markup cumbersome for extensive
edits. It's not a case of them wanting to pull the project into Word --
they know Frame has superior long doc handling/numbering/cross
refs/indexing/PDF-generation, and are happy to pay us to format in Frame
to gain access to those benefits in the manuals. But they don't want to
buy a $1000 program to be able to edit more easily.
Tori Muir
[email protected] • 650.430.8674
www.spot-on-creative.com
Dr Rick Smith wrote:
I admit I'm astonished that any software product manager could ask about the market for a
"Light" version of their product.
I thought the industry had already proven - time and again - that such things
never thrive.
If they want to expand the market for Frame, why not bring back the Mac/Unix
versions?
Moreover, they could focus on the benefits Frame carries over the competition,
like numbering and cross references that by-golly work, and work reliably. This
fills an important niche in tech writing, especially for those of us who don't
have the patience to fix such things by hand.
And it would definitely improve my own workflow if I could create a printer-ready PDF directly from Frame, instead of having to re-edit my simple, if numerous, diagrams in Illustrator. But then I wouldn't need to buy a copy of Illustrator.
I'm a one-man outfit, so I doubt they care what I want.
Rick Smith.
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