I don't think the issue in this conversation is about Adobe abandoning
FM, but that the corporate model Adobe chooses to use has effectively
driven a lot of us old timers out the door, into the arms of its
competitors. Yes, there have been a bunch of new features and added
support for functions that required external plug-in support previously,
but the interface is actually quite hard for me to navigate now,
especially now that so many keyboard commands have disappeared or changed.
For me, my last favourite version was 7.2 on the Mac (which I still have
running by the way, on a G5 tower). Sure it lacked all the fancy
mod-cons of later versions but I could run that application for months
at a time (without shutting down the computer or program) without issue.
Can't say the same for the current version, I'm afraid. And as I said
earlier, part of the reason was being locked out of the application due
to licensing problems.
Version 5.5.2 on Linux was fun while it lasted. Of course, one does miss
the hominess of Frame Corp, but that was a long time ago now.
Alan
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Dr Alan Litchfield
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941
Auckland, New Zealand 1140
On 27/06/18 13:42, [email protected] wrote:
I've been hearing rumors of Adobe's abandonment of Frame for years, if not
decades. The timing of these rumors is almost as regular as an atomic
clock...
Abandonment hasn't happened yet. Oddly, I find the rumors tend to peak
before Adobe announces a new version. This list, or any public list, is not
a good way to make a decision about FrameMaker. Those that know can't say;
those that say usually don't know.
David Creamer
IDEAS Training
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All of these posts regarding Adobe's poor support/abandonment of FM are one
of the reasons why my company decided to focus on another tool and migrate
away from FM. All of the technical publications staff (including me) are
now using Madcap Flare and we have just completed a 2 year migration of all
FM documents into Flare. It was a bit sad to say goodbye to FM, but the
handwriting was on the wall.
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