Is the upgrade deal also for 30% off FM8 to FM10 and FM9 to FM10 or just
from 7.x to FM10?
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
052-763-7133
On 08-Jun-12 10:32 PM, Alan Litchfield wrote:
All,
As a matter of interest. I went to the page on the original post. Noting that
the only options for upgrade were from 8 or 9, I saw that at the bottom of the
page there was a link for more information. In this country, we have no
reseller network that services upgrades. The last time I upgraded I had to buy
from Singapore.
Therefore, I have sent an email requesting information from Adobe (the third
link IIRC).
*I have had no response.* I cannot ring the 1800 number because they do not
work in this country. I cannot use the special links because this is not US or
Canada.
Looks like I will be missing out on this offer because Adobe can't get its act
together.
Not surprised really.
Alan
PS I would be interested to see a link to the special offer on Amazon.
On 8/06/2012, at 7:48 AM, Maxwell Hoffmann wrote:
FYI -
Robert, I respect your opinion on FM7.x. I have observed that in isolated cases
a single person or small advanced group of advanced users are sometimes capable
of exercising enough discipline to continue satisfactory production with
version FM7.x , which was last updated 7 years ago.
There *are*, however, definite limitations with FM7.x vs. FM10 that affect most
people, e.g. no Unicode support, no rich graphics, more time-consuming steps in
locating and removing format overrides, and a more challenging path to output
to ePubs (via TCS.) For many of us, changing demands on our deliverables are
not met by code that was written 7 to 10 years ago.
There is a long list of nearly 50 enhancements to FrameMaker that have taken
place over the past 10 years, listed at the *bottom* of the call to action
webpage below. I'll use the full URL, just scroll to the bottom:
http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/fm-upgrade.html
There are 2 short blogs that anyone in a mid-sized workgroup with FM7.x should
consider reviewing.
(NOTE: edit line breaks in the full URLs below before copy/paste into browser
address field.)
(a) Blog with links to 4 Captivate videos:
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2012/05/videos-5-compelling-reasons-to-upgrade-from-framemaker-7-x-to-framemaker-10.html
(b) Blog highlighting timesaving features for FM7.x users who are not
interested in structure:
http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2012/06/what-if-you-use-framemaker-7-x-and-dont-want-dita-upgrade-to-fm-10.html
I hope many in the group will share this information with their contacts who
are not fully satisfied with FrameMaker 7.x, as this such FM users to upgrade
FrameMaker to FrameMaker, rather than FrameMaker to the full Tech Comm Suite.
For those interested, time is running out as there are now only 8 days left to
take advantage of the promotion. This topic becomes a dead issue a week from
tomorrow.
I will step aside from this topic.
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The offer is "Adobe FrameMaker 7.X customers can receive a savings of
30% on the FULL version of FrameMaker 10 software purchased through
Adobe Customer Service, or a participating reseller worldwide."
Adobe charges $999, 30% off that is $699. Amazon charges $634.
Personally I'd stick with 7 unless I had a specific reason to upgade.
Adobe introduced a lot of bugs with the UI makeover in FM9 and if
anything they got worse in FM10. The last new feature they added that
I have any use for was the multiple undo in 7.2.
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