On 11 Oct 2006, at 07:01, Steve Rickaby wrote: > Correct. There was a campaign, thanks to Paul Findon, but it got us > nowhere: http://www.fm4osx.org
Don't write it off just yet, Steve, the campaign is still very much alive. Just last week I resubmitted over 400 pages of petition with 3,673 signatures to several key people at Adobe. Admitedly, the campaign has not achieved its ultimate goal, but it has been very successful at getting our message across to the people that matter, i.e., top-level executives at Adobe, we did receive a response from Adobe's Director of PR. Soon after, Adobe held a survey for FrameMaker with the question: "do you want a Mac OS X version?" Then, Adobe realized just what a jewel FrameMaker is and decided to reinvest in it, with 7.2 released last year and 8.0 coming next year. We also got our message across to top-level executives at Apple, who very much want Adobe to come on board with FrameMaker for Mac OS X and the issue has been discussed several times in Steve Jobs' office. This was confirmed by a call I received from the head of PR for Apple Europe. We may not have achieved our ultimate goal, but I believe we have been successful. Paul <http://www.fm4osx.org/> PS: Have you checked out MadCap Software? They're developing an alternative to FrameMaker called Blaze, which is scheduled for release early 2007. It's Windows only, but interesting all the same. <http://www.madcapsoftware.com/products/blaze/>
