Re: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:54 -0800 24/2/07, Guy K. Haas wrote: I see nothing that spells out FrameMaker does not work at all Has anyone TRIED it and reported this? I was quoting from page 5 of the document 'How Adobe Products Support Windows Vista': Q. Does Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 run on Windows Vista? Does

Re: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Fred Ridder
The issue is that you are interpreting the statement that FrameMaker 7.2 and earlier do not support Windows Vista to mean FrameMaker does not work at all. What you stated was your interpretation, not a direct quote. If a vendor *knows* that a software combination doesn't work at all, they will

Re: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:00 -0500 25/2/07, Fred Ridder wrote: What you stated was your interpretation, not a direct quote. True. But stated immediately above a direct quote, namely: 'Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 and earlier do not support Windows Vista. However, Adobe currently plans to release the next major version of

Fwd: Can you recommend someone for this job: Business Development Manager at ForeignExchange

2007-02-25 Thread sang dy
FYI. Hope some of you will find it helpful. Good luck. Tom Tang wrote: Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:24:12 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Tang Subject: Fwd: Can you recommend someone for this job: Business Development Manager at ForeignExchange To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FYI. Hope some of you

Off Topic: SnagIt

2007-02-25 Thread Karyn Hunt
Is there anyone on this list who could answer a quick question about doing video captures on SnagIt? Mine are really blurry and I don't know why or how to fix it. Please respond to me individually so we don't take up Framers' time with a SnagIt question. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks! Karyn

Re: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Paul Findon
On 24 Feb 2007, at 00:33, Michael Heine wrote: Blaze sounds interesting (on vapour paper, so far). So, will it do endnotes, and print 4/C ... ? I don't know. Ask them. They seem to be a helpful company. General: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sales: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps we can work out a deal for

OT: A comment on upgrading and support Was: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Diane Gaskill
I've been lurking on this thread but I have a comment that might throw a monkey wrench into the conversation. It seems that sometimes people upgrade just to have the latest and (hopefully) the greatest version of a sw product, car, music system, etc. This includes Frame, Vista, and whatever. But

RE: A comment on upgrading and support Was: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Denise L. Moss-Fritch
Good Day Diane, Hope you are doing okay these days. Currently I am racing, both at work and with our (spouse and my) business. Unfortunately the situation is not always of the wait a bit situation. The company where I work supplies several computer systems as software and hardware controls of

Re: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Paul Findon
On 21 Feb 2007, at 19:30, Dov Isaacs wrote: What is true is that Adobe was certainly NOT going to drop support for Windows in favour of a MacOS X-only solution or start developing products exclusively for MacOS X, a strategy that apparently at least some within Apple would have liked Adobe to

Re: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Paul Findon
On 21 Feb 2007, at 16:28, Dov Isaacs wrote: Comparing the Macintosh version of FrameMaker to a Ford Taurus is not a valid analogy. FrameMaker on Macintosh was NEVER a best-seller. It was a very small fraction of the FrameMaker user base, smaller than even Unix, that did not justify the

Re: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Paul Findon
On 21 Feb 2007, at 16:28, Dov Isaacs wrote: Comparing the Macintosh version of FrameMaker to a Ford Taurus is not a valid analogy. FrameMaker on Macintosh was NEVER a best-seller. It was a very small fraction of the FrameMaker user base, smaller than even Unix, that did not justify the

Re: OT: A comment on upgrading and support Was: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Bill Briggs
At 12:58 PM -0800 2/25/07, Diane Gaskill wrote: It seems that sometimes people upgrade just to have the latest and (hopefully) the greatest version of a sw product, car, music system, etc. This includes Frame, Vista, and whatever. But if the new version of a product does not have a feature I

RE: A comment on upgrading and support Was: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Bill Briggs
At 1:25 PM -0800 2/25/07, Denise L. Moss-Fritch wrote: Currently our products are tested and approved for XP, however that operating system is becoming harder and harder to obtain. Some of our customers have reported they have been unable to obtain computers with XP. Certainly by later this

RE: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
How was that statement fear, uncertainty, and doubt? I was stating FACT based on having been involved personally in or as a direct witness to what was going on at the time. - Dov -Original Message- From: Paul Findon Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 1:25 PM To: Wayne

RE: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
-Original Message- From: Paul Findon Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 1:26 PM To: Free Framers List; framers@lists.frameusers.com Cc: Chuck Hastings Subject: Re: Frame's future On 21 Feb 2007, at 17:28, Dov Isaacs wrote: There is no reason for me to doubt the veracity of

RE: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
Yes, you should put your sarcasm aside. (1) Even if we assumed that every licensed copy of FrameMaker Macintosh were to immediately upgrade to a new MacOS X version of FrameMaker and even if you grew that number by 50%, the numbers just are not there to justify the investment. (2) Your

Re: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Bill Briggs
At 9:29 PM + 2/25/07, Paul Findon wrote: Adobe could have pushed FrameMaker as a 1st class word processor and cut the price. Throw in a spreadsheet, a cut-down version of Illustrator, and a Powerpoint alternative and you have a whole new office platform. With Microsoft encroaching more and

Re: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Paul Findon
On 25 Feb 2007, at 22:02, Dov Isaacs wrote: How was that statement fear, uncertainty, and doubt? I was stating FACT based on having been involved personally in or as a direct witness to what was going on at the time. Apple is one of Adobe's competitors. Competitors sometimes engage in the

Re: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Paul, et. al. Paul Findon wrote: On 25 Feb 2007, at 22:02, Dov Isaacs wrote: How was that statement fear, uncertainty, and doubt? I was stating FACT based on having been involved personally in or as a direct witness to what was going on at the time. Apple is one of Adobe's competitors.

Re: Third-party or out of the box plugins [was re:

2007-02-25 Thread Peter Ring
With a bit of duct-tape, Excel worksheets, and Python scripts, the future is now. We use 'out-of-band' index entries to produce back-of-the-book indexes. The index is authored separately from the body text, using simple Excel worksheets as the exchange format, and associated to the body text

Re: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Bill Briggs
At 9:32 PM + 2/25/07, Paul Findon wrote: There is no law or SEC regulation that stipulates a minimum profitability for products, and Adobe could have simply raised the price if it really was such a major draw on expenses. And the really pathetic irony here is that Frame Technologies first

Third-party or "out of the box" plugins [was "re:

2007-02-25 Thread mc...@allette.com.au
Eric Dunn wrote: > Now what exactly is the difference between "hunt and peck" and "drill". Drilling through a graphical user interface would involve pointing at hot spots to get to the subsystem of interest, then working from a list of commonly required process - Servicing, Repair Procedures,

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 10:54 -0800 24/2/07, Guy K. Haas wrote: >I see nothing that spells out "FrameMaker does not work at all...". Has anyone >TRIED it and reported this? I was quoting from page 5 of the document 'How Adobe Products Support Windows Vista': >Q. Does Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 run on Windows Vista?

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Fred Ridder
The issue is that you are interpreting the statement that "FrameMaker 7.2 and earlier do not support Windows Vista" to mean "FrameMaker does not work at all". What you stated was your interpretation, not a direct quote. If a vendor *knows* that a software combination doesn't work at all, they

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Steve Rickaby
At 11:00 -0500 25/2/07, Fred Ridder wrote: >What you stated was your interpretation, not a direct quote. True. But stated immediately above a direct quote, namely: 'Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 and earlier do not support Windows Vista. However, Adobe currently plans to release the next major version

Fwd: Can you recommend someone for this job: Business Development Manager at ForeignExchange

2007-02-25 Thread sang dy
FYI. Hope some of you will find it helpful. Good luck. Tom Tang wrote: Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 07:24:12 -0800 (PST) From: Tom Tang Subject: Fwd: Can you recommend someone for this job: Business Development Manager at ForeignExchange To: sangdyyh at yahoo.com FYI. Hope some of

Off Topic: SnagIt

2007-02-25 Thread Karyn Hunt
Is there anyone on this list who could answer a quick question about doing video captures on SnagIt? Mine are really blurry and I don't know why or how to fix it. Please respond to me individually so we don't take up Framers' time with a SnagIt question. Karyn_Hunt at Hotmail.com Thanks!

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Paul Findon
On 24 Feb 2007, at 00:33, Michael Heine wrote: > Blaze sounds interesting (on vapour paper, so far). So, will it do > endnotes, and print 4/C ... ? I don't know. Ask them. They seem to be a helpful company. General: info at madcapsoftware.com Sales: sales at madcapsoftware.com --

OT: A comment on upgrading and support Was: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Diane Gaskill
I've been lurking on this thread but I have a comment that might throw a monkey wrench into the conversation. It seems that sometimes people upgrade just to have the latest and (hopefully) the greatest version of a sw product, car, music system, etc. This includes Frame, Vista, and whatever. But

A comment on upgrading and support Was: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Denise L. Moss-Fritch
Good Day Diane, Hope you are doing okay these days. Currently I am "racing", both at work and with our (spouse and my) business. Unfortunately the situation is not always of the "wait a bit" situation. The company where I work supplies several computer systems as software and hardware controls

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Paul Findon
On 21 Feb 2007, at 17:28, Dov Isaacs wrote: > There is no reason for me to doubt the veracity > of your claim vis-a-vis the order of appearance > of FrameMaker on various platforms. However, you or > I like it or not, rational business decisions are > made on the basis of current market

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Paul Findon
On 21 Feb 2007, at 16:28, Dov Isaacs wrote: > Comparing the Macintosh version of FrameMaker to a Ford > Taurus is not a valid analogy. FrameMaker on Macintosh was > NEVER a best-seller. It was a very small fraction of the > FrameMaker user base, smaller than even Unix, that did not > justify the

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Paul Findon
On 21 Feb 2007, at 16:28, Dov Isaacs wrote: > Comparing the Macintosh version of FrameMaker to a Ford > Taurus is not a valid analogy. FrameMaker on Macintosh was > NEVER a best-seller. It was a very small fraction of the > FrameMaker user base, smaller than even Unix, that did not > justify the

OT: A comment on upgrading and support Was: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Bill Briggs
At 12:58 PM -0800 2/25/07, Diane Gaskill wrote: >It seems that sometimes people upgrade just to have the latest and (hopefully) >the greatest version of a sw product, car, music system, etc. This includes >Frame, Vista, and whatever. But if the new version of a product does not have >a feature

A comment on upgrading and support Was: Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Bill Briggs
At 1:25 PM -0800 2/25/07, Denise L. Moss-Fritch wrote: >Currently our products are tested and approved for XP, however that operating >system is becoming harder and harder to obtain. Some of our customers have >reported they have been unable to obtain computers with XP. Certainly by later >this

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
How was that statement "fear, uncertainty, and doubt?" I was stating FACT based on having been involved personally in or as a direct witness to what was going on at the time. - Dov > -Original Message- > From: Paul Findon > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 1:25 PM > To: Wayne

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Findon > Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2007 1:26 PM > To: Free Framers List; framers at lists.frameusers.com > Cc: Chuck Hastings > Subject: Re: Frame's future > > On 21 Feb 2007, at 17:28, Dov Isaacs wrote: > > > There is no reason for me to doubt the

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
Yes, you should put your sarcasm aside. (1) Even if we assumed that every licensed copy of FrameMaker Macintosh were to immediately upgrade to a new MacOS X version of FrameMaker and even if you grew that number by 50%, the numbers just are not there to justify the investment. (2) Your

Wild stab in the dark: LaTeX to MIF

2007-02-25 Thread Peter Ring
I gather you do not run a Unix box, but both Mac OSX and Windows come close enough. I can't help with Mac OSX, but I'm willing to try compiling those utilities for Cygwin (a *nix environment on top of Windows) -- if you tell a bit more about what you intend to use it for. Up-conversion of

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Paul Findon
On 25 Feb 2007, at 22:02, Dov Isaacs wrote: > How was that statement "fear, uncertainty, and doubt?" > > I was stating FACT based on having been involved > personally in or as a direct witness to what was going > on at the time. Apple is one of Adobe's competitors. Competitors sometimes engage

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Syed Zaeem Hosain
Paul, et. al. Paul Findon wrote: > On 25 Feb 2007, at 22:02, Dov Isaacs wrote: > >> How was that statement "fear, uncertainty, and doubt?" >> >> I was stating FACT based on having been involved >> personally in or as a direct witness to what was going >> on at the time. > > Apple is one of

Frame's future

2007-02-25 Thread Bill Briggs
At 9:32 PM + 2/25/07, Paul Findon wrote: >There is no law or SEC regulation that stipulates a minimum profitability for >products, and Adobe could have simply raised the price if it really was such a >major draw on expenses. And the really pathetic irony here is that Frame Technologies