I don't understand why you would stop using it for new docs. Most of the software I've bought I've never upgraded.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote: > My comment was that at some time, I could simply stop upgrading and continue > to use that last version (as you had mentioned in a post last year) rather > than change all the older documents to a new tool. > > We simply chose to stop at different versions, I suppose ... for me, it is > version 11, for you, an earlier version, I guess. > > Z > >> I don't understand your reasoning. I don't need upgrades to use FrameMaker. >> It has been going downhill from version 9 on. > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain > (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote: >> Yeah, I would love to continue to use FrameMaker, but $399 for >> upgrades is too high - the older upgrades at $199 were more easily >> justifiable. I will simply use FM 11 for maintaining my old documents (as >> Robert Lauriston as mentioned that I should do) and have already switched to >> LaTeX for all my new work. The price and upgrade "costs" of LaTeX - after a >> 2 month learning curve - are infinitely better for _my_ needs! :) >> >
