For better or worse, and until it completely fails (which it hasn't), I'm
still with FM 10.0, having started with version 5.5 back in 1998.
-- Ken in Atlanta
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On Thursday, September 23, 2021, 12:41:15 PM EDT, Harding, Dan
<dhard...@illinois.edu> wrote:
YIKES! This reinforces my notion to stay with my perpetually licensed 15.x.
The entire subscription/profile-based model is user-hostile IMO.
-Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+dharding=illinois....@lists.frameusers.com> On
Behalf Of Alan Houser
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2021 10:27 AM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: [Framers] New Adobe Profiles - Business, Personal
Just so you know that "you're not alone" ... I have a customer who is totally
locked out of FrameMaker because of this issue, during a critical project
period. They are not happy.
-Alan
On 9/23/21 11:13 AM, Sue Thomson wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I use FrameMaker (as part of Technical Communication Suite), and a number of
> Creative Cloud apps (mainly Illustrator but I also use others occasionally)
> all day. I usually run FrameMaker and Illustrator at the same time, switching
> between them tens of times during the day.
>
> I recently updated FrameMaker from v16.0.2 to 16.0.3. When I restarted
> FrameMaker I was prompted to choose an Adobe Profile. The choice was Business
> or Personal. There was no way (that I could see) to progress without making a
> choice.
>
> I had not heard of these profiles before so I looked at the guidance on the
> page and chose Business.
>
> Oh, boy! How I wish I had not updated FrameMaker. These profiles are causing
> me no end of trouble.
>
> Our IT department has been talking to Adobe, and IT tells me that Adobe says…
> TCS and FM are only available under Personal profile, Creative Cloud apps are
> only available under Business profile.
>
> This means that now, every time I want to switch between two applications
> (which have been running perfectly happily, side-by-side, for years), I have
> to sign out of one profile and sign back in under the other profile. The
> applications, of course, close each time I sign out. If I don’t change
> profiles, then either FrameMaker or Illustrator (depending upon how I am
> signed in) claims to be a trial version, with a countdown.
>
> Oddly, if I right-click on an image in FrameMaker I still get the same old
> choices to edit the image – i.e. Illustrator and Photoshop are still on the
> list of options.
>
> Has anyone else come across issues with these new profiles? Am I missing a
> trick somewhere?
>
> I’ve been using FrameMaker, on-and-off, since v7.2 but this change is making
> me re-evaluate my tools. I’m seriously wondering if it is time to give up on
> Adobe and switch to something more useable.
>
> Sue Thomson MISTC
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