That’s one of the reasons I switched to Madcap Flare. It’s an exponentially better authoring tool. -GIllian
> On Feb 21, 2022, at 11:20 AM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm working with the latest monthly licence version of Frame at work. > > My system significantly beats all the Adobe requirements and I *still* get > several crashes a week - even though I'm working with small books or single > files (which I've taken to doing to protect the integrity of the book). > > Please note that as I also work with MS Word, restarting my system at least > twice, if not 3 or 4 times a day is integral to my "work methodology". > > Yet Frame still crashes. Regularly. > > Alison > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Framers <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of Reng Winfried > Sent: February 20, 2022 11:01 PM > To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Framers] Why so many of us feel the way we do about Adobe > > Hi Betrand, > > Sorry to hear this. > However: > o From your other thread I understand that you used and old version. > Newer versions are definitely more stable. > o My experience is that Adobe is more responsive than some years ago. > The support e-mail address is: mailto:[email protected] > When you have an issue (e.g. with recovery files), then also post it on the > Adobe forum. > There are a few Adobe employees who follow the discussions. > Your issue might get more attention. > And post your issue on the Adobe Tracker: > https://tracker.adobe.com/#/home > > Best regards > > Winfried > > -----Original Message----- > From: Framers > <mailto:framers-bounces+w.reng=carecom-solutions....@lists.frameusers.com> On > Behalf Of Bertrand Meyer > Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2022 4:32 PM > To: 'An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.' > <mailto:[email protected]> > Cc: mailto:[email protected] > Subject: Re: [Framers] Why so many of us feel the way we do about Adobe > > This is an old thread but here is a comment. I fundamentally rely on > FrameMaker and would never "bash" it. On the other hand, right now at the end > of a two-year book-writing process, with the camera-ready due on Monday, I > got a crash this afternoon. Not the first -- in my experience, if I am > working on a book a FrameMaker session does not last more than three or four > days before it vanishes -- but possibly the worst ever. The supposed > recovery files were corrupted; just to restart from the backup to a stable > state took almost two hours. I do back up obsessively (as I have been burned > many times before), but still. And when you are in delicate fine-tuning, > typo-fixing and final indexing mode, working over several chapters at once, > going through every recent change to see which were kept and which were lost, > is a nightmare. > > One might imagine that by this time they would have either fixed the crashes > or devised a decent recovery mechanism. > > There is still nothing that measures up to FrameMaker for writing books with > a sophisticated structure, but if it did respect the integrity of customers' > work that wouldn't hurt. > > -- Bertrand Meyer > > -----Original Message----- > From: Framers > [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2021 12:00 > To: Framers List <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Framers] Why so many of us feel the way we do about Adobe > > I don't know why everyone likes bashing FrameMaker. > > Is there anything else that: > Is suitable for long books. > Gives you PDF output as is appears while you are working (WYSIWYG). > Can be converted to online help, (even if it requires buying an extra > program). > > FM happens to have online help conversion built-in, but I could live without > that if that was another decent authoring tool that worked together with > another decently priced conversion tool. > > Word comes close to checking all those boxes, but has problems with large > files and other issues. > > Someone mention another page layout program recently, but I forgot what it > was. Maybe it was Xara Page & Layout Designer. But can it do online help at > all? > > Please post if you know of another authoring tool that is excellent for PDFs > and can be used for online help. > > My biggest gripe with FM is the price, but you know what, you really don't > need to buy every new version that comes out. Do you buy every new smartphone > that comes out, or wait until you need a new phone? Anyone under 20 is > excluded from answering that question :) > > -- > Shmuel Wolfson > Technical Writer > 058-763-7133 > > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to mailto:[email protected] Visit the list's > homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to mailto:[email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to [email protected] > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to [email protected] _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
