Totally agreeing with Rick here, and yet curiously, we are both SMEs. Go figure ;)
Alan On 23/02/2011, at 10:14 AM, Dr Rick Smith wrote: > I admit I'm astonished that any software product manager could ask > about the market for a "Light" version of their product. > > I thought the industry had already proven - time and again - that > such things never thrive. > > If they want to expand the market for Frame, why not bring back the > Mac/Unix versions? > > Moreover, they could focus on the benefits Frame carries over the > competition, like numbering and cross references that by-golly work, > and work reliably. This fills an important niche in tech writing, > especially for those of us who don't have the patience to fix such > things by hand. > > And it would definitely improve my own workflow if I could create a > printer-ready PDF directly from Frame, instead of having to re-edit > my simple, if numerous, diagrams in Illustrator. But then I wouldn't > need to buy a copy of Illustrator. > > I'm a one-man outfit, so I doubt they care what I want. > > Rick Smith. -- Alan T Litchfield AlphaByte PO Box 1941, Auckland, 1140 New Zealand http://www.alphabyte.co.nz http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice
