On the other hand, faced with clients who keep asking me to port their Frame manuals into Word so they can make text edits, I would welcome a relatively inexpensive 'Frame Light" product. As it presently stands, clients will not buy Frame, and find PDF markup cumbersome for extensive edits. It's not a case of them wanting to pull the project into Word -- they know Frame has superior long doc handling/numbering/cross refs/indexing/PDF-generation, and are happy to pay us to format in Frame to gain access to those benefits in the manuals. But they don't want to buy a $1000 program to be able to edit more easily.
Tori Muir tmuir at spot-on-creative.com ? 650.430.8674 www.spot-on-creative.com 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as tmuir at spot-on-creative.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/tmuir%40spot-on-creative.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >
