It will never happen. Adobe's solution is for you to give someone an edible PDF and have them comment in the PDF in sticky notes or mark the PDF using the advanced text editor tools. Then, with Acro 10, you can import their comments and changes into Frame and then accept or reject them through track changes and conditions.
Thank you, Gillian Flato Technical Writer (Software) nanometrics 1550 Buckeye Dr. Milpitas, CA. 95035 *408.545.6316 7 408.232.5911 * gflato at nanometrics.com<mailto:gflato at nanometrics.com> [cid:image001.jpg at 01CBD29D.390D4320] Think of the trees. Please don't print this email unless absolutely necessary. From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brad Anderson Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:21 PM To: Anthony Davey Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Frame Light, what's the potential market? I, too, have wished for the capability for more than 10 years and have requested it numerous times from Adobe. This would be one way to bring back the Mac version--add FrameMaker lite to the App store. I think a price point of $99 or less would be great. There are too many of our clients that end up porting their documents back and forth from Word to FrameMaker. This is due to licensing costs, training, and Word just has better (and more easily used) functions for tracking and editing changes. I think it was a mistake for FrameMaker 10 not to include ePub output directly from FrameMaker. I can output an ePub straight from InDesign or straight from Apple Pages, but I need the full TCS3 to output ePub through RoboHelp. Here's hoping for a FrameMaker lite... Brad On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:56 AM, Anthony Davey wrote: Cross posted to dita-frameusers, so ignore as needed ... I had an interesting discussion with the Frame Product Manager a few days ago at the London launch event for TCS3. It seems there is the motivation to develop a business case for 'Frame Light' which could be used by SMEs to create and review content, but little else. I work in an environment where I am the only Frame user (experimenting with 10 at the moment) in an organisation with over 100 SMEs producing content in Word. Most do their own thing, or come to me to 'fix' or standardise stuff once it is collected together. So, I would want 'Frame Light' to allow content creation in structured or unstructured format (including DITA one day), but that requires the content provider to use only the pre-determined paragraph formats and a few text styles (emphasis, bold, sub- and superscript); and insert images by reference. I can get around a need to define conditional text by using different paragraph format names. All this in templates that can only be developed or altered by full license holders. To support the development of a business case can you post what (other) functionality you would want Frame Light to have, how many licenses you would (ideally) want in your organisation, how many full Frame licenses you currently have (for comparison purposes), how you would want FL delivered (local install, web-based, floating licenses), and what you would want/need to pay for it to get it accepted as an alternative to Whatever word processing your SMEs currently use? Creating more disciplined (structured), reusable, content which can be output with a similar look and feel, and doesn't reinvent a wheel each time an SME puts fingers to keyboard, is a concept which has almost reached its time in my organisation. Others may be close, or even ahead, so there must be demand for this. Please let me know. Best regards, Ant -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110222/78d01100/attachment.html> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 1180 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110222/78d01100/attachment.jpg>
