Everette, Dimi wrote: > Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I'm excited about getting FM 10 here > at work. I've been using FM9 for a couple of years, and it was a huge > improvement over 7.2 to me. I've used only unstructured and I'm just > doing run-of-the-mill technical publications, but I love FrameMaker-- > always have and always will (probably!). > > FM 7.2 was good enough for a long time, but I discovered that it didn't > play well with some of the older books I work on, especially the large > ones. Then came FM 9 and the nifty redesign--yeah, some of it's a PITA > but you get used to it. After attending the Adobe webinar about TCS3 > and one about FM 10, I am ready to go to the next level.
I was eager to switch to FM9/TCS2 when we got it, but after weeks of trying, I still couldn't achieve an FM > RH > online help workflow that didn't require lots of manual work in RH. Numbered lists in particular were an insurmountable issue for me. I mean, really -- hanging indents kludged with non-breaking spaces? What is this, 1989? So, since OLH is my major deliverable right now, I'm sticking with the FM7.2 > ePub workflow that was kind of handed to me a few years ago -- it just works. I gather that some of my issues with FM > RH integration may have been resolved in TCS3, so I wouldn't mind giving that a try. But I'd want Shlomo Perets' ToolbarPlus Express (www.microtype.com/resources.html) and Klaus Daube's Enhanced Toolbar ... um ... enhancement for that (www.daube.ch/docu/fmaker55.html). The oh-so-cool, Bauhaus-like monotone gray interface introduced in FM9 leaves me cold and is seriously lacking in terms of usability. Richard G. Combs Senior Technical Writer Polycom, Inc. richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom 303-223-5111 ------ rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom 303-903-6372 ------ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to framers@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.
