"Umpteen years"??? It's barely been two years since 7.2 (although I'll admit that it has been about 5 years since 7.0 as the last major version release).
And IMO FM8.0 includes several pretty major new features and capabilities, although from your perspective it may be easy to dismiss them as "it's about time" features or things that don't matter to you. In addition to Unicode support, both revision tracking and the improvements to conditional text (Boolean expressions for show/hide settings and better indications for overlapping conditions) are big features that would have involved a lot of development and testing effort. Yes, many of us have been asking for these features for years, but seeing Adobe investing resources to actually implement them in an application that all the tea-leaf readers were proclaiming as a dead product 3 or 4 years ago is very heartening. Just my opinion... Fred Ridder -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:framers-bounces+fred.ridder=intel.com at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alison Carrico Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 1:00 PM To: framers at frameusers.com Subject: RE: first impressions of FrameMaker 8 In my business (document/software translation/localization), the Unicode support alone is worth the price of admission several times over. I was as giddy as a schoolgirl when I printed a Russian doc to PDF & all the bookmarks came out perfectly. I've been using TimeSavers in 7.1 and, while it is a huge help, there are characters in several languages that do not convert correctly, requiring tedious copy/pasting to correct. I'm working with the trial version until Purchasing gets the upgrade ordered, and we'll recommend upgrading to several of our clients. BUT... it really is disappointing to see relatively few real innovations. IMO, a lot of the new features warrant only an "It's about time", not "Wow, cool!" Makes me wonder what the Frame engineers at Adobe have been doing for the umpteen years between 7.2 & this version. -----Original Message----- From: framers-bounces+acarrico=adamsglobalization.com at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces+acarrico=adamsglobalization.com at lists.frameusers .com] On Behalf Of Sarah O'Keefe Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:00 PM To: framers at frameusers.com Subject: first impressions of FrameMaker 8 I've posted an overview of FrameMaker 8 with my impressions here: http://www.scriptorium.com/palimpsest/2007/08/framemaker-8-first-impress ions.html Please feel free to comment on the blog or in this forum. The review itself is too long to post to the list in its entirety (and it has screen shots and PDF links). Regards, Sarah O'Keefe -- ################################################################### Sarah O'Keefe okeefe at scriptorium.com Scriptorium Publishing Services, Inc. http://www.scriptorium.com Blog: http://www.scriptorium.com/palimpsest/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as acarrico at adamsglobalization.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/acarrico%40adamsglob alization.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as fred.ridder at intel.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/fred.ridder%40intel. com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
