Folks, Worrying about whether the latest versions of FrameMaker are, or are not, available for a particular OS and platform is not productive at all. Whether we know and/or agree/disagree with Adobe's reasons for dropping the Mac version is not anything we can or should waste any [more] time on.
Yes, grass-roots efforts to make changes sometimes work, but this one (i.e., trying to get Adobe to provide recent versions of FrameMaker on a Mac) has failed multiple times. Let's move on and get over it. FWIW, I have been using FrameMaker since 1988 - off and on - on old Sun 3's running SunOS, through the latest version running on my laptop on Windows XP. Including a brief stint on a Mac, although not for any serious large document. The point is that it is the application that is important - not the OS. The OS and platform are merely tools to get the job done (and ultimately so is the application too!). I use whatever *application* makes the task at hand easier. So, I have three different computers in my office - two Windows systems and a Sun Solaris system (no Mac, because I have no particular need for an application that is specific to that platform/OS only). Depending on what I need to do, I reach for a different keyboard and mouse and focus on the task. Yes, if, for some strange reason, someday, Adobe drops FrameMaker as a product, I will also change and will find another solution and make it work for what I need done - warts and all - because that is life. Regards, Z Combs, Richard wrote: > Steve Rickaby wrote: > >> However, FrameMaker has a much older code base, so the effort >> to migrate it to XCode would be proportionately greater. For >> all I know, some parts of FrameMaker might be coded in >> Assembler for speed. If this is the case, moving such code to >> a multi-platform production base such as XCode would be all >> the more complex, and might involve a major re-coding effort. >> All this ups cost and reduces margins. > > Give it up, Steve. You're using logic and reason, and the True Believers > aren't swayed by those. In fact, references to "cost" and "margins" are > downright offensive to the Keepers of the Dogma. Hang the cost -- Adobe > shouldn't "betray the faith"! > > I expect that the more extreme fundamentalist Apple-ists will threaten > to behead you any time now for your apostasy. You're the Salman Rushdie > of the Macintosh! ;-) > > Richard > > > ------ > Richard G. Combs > Senior Technical Writer > Polycom, Inc. > richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom > 303-223-5111 > ------ > rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom > 303-777-0436 > ------
