Technical Writing Suite From Adobe

2006-04-26 Thread hedley.fin...@myob.com
Bill: > sell into the Academic publishing market And into the commercial publishing non-fiction market! Then publishers can stop using dumb Cindex and Sky Index to produce indexes that don't embed in the source text and have to be done all over again when they (a) publish the illustrated

RE: Technical Writing Suite From Adobe

2006-04-25 Thread hedley . finger
Bill: sell into the Academic publishing market And into the commercial publishing non-fiction market! Then publishers can stop using dumb Cindex and Sky Index to produce indexes that don't embed in the source text and have to be done all over again when they (a) publish the illustrated

A Technical Writing Suite From Adobe?

2006-04-25 Thread Scott Abel
Look inside my FrameMaker crystal ball. Can you see what I see? It's a bit foggy, but if you concentrate for just a minute, an amazing new product will come into focus. It's a technical writers dream come true ... www.thecontentwrangler.com Scott Abel Content Management Strategist The

A Technical Writing Suite From Adobe?

2006-04-25 Thread Rick Quatro
But what would be *new* about it, except for existing products being bundled together? This may be beneficial for someone just starting out, but for those of us that already have a couple of the products, buying the bundle will likely be more expensive than buying the missing pieces. And

A Technical Writing Suite From Adobe?

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Swallow
A few flaws in this "vision"... One, RoboHelp for FrameMaker was discontinued long ago and even though the source code is now in Adobe's hands, they have a significant chunk of it to either fix or toss and rewrite. RHFM was clunky, a resource hog, slow as molasses, and buggy, and had very little

A Technical Writing Suite From Adobe?

2006-04-25 Thread Dov Isaacs
6:14 AM > To: framers at lists.frameusers.com > Subject: Re: A Technical Writing Suite From Adobe? > > A few flaws in this "vision"... > > One, RoboHelp for FrameMaker was discontinued long ago and > even though the source code is now in Adobe's hands, they &

A Technical Writing Suite From Adobe?

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Swallow
That's what I thought. GIGO. On 4/25/06, Dov Isaacs wrote: > Total and utter speculation by "The Content Wrangler" > without any announcements, leaks (credible or otherwise), > or other evidence to back it up ... -- Bill Swallow HATT List Owner WWP-Users List Owner Senior Member STC,

Technical Writing Suite From Adobe

2006-04-25 Thread Daniel Emory
The "Content Wrangler's" "vision" of FrameMaker?s future is fatally flawed. It would do little to improve the quality of on-line help, or increase the penetration of FrameMaker into the on-line help market. Some years back, I wrote an article entitled "Thoughts About On-Line Help", which is still

Technical Writing Suite From Adobe

2006-04-25 Thread Bill Briggs
At 11:41 AM -0700 4/25/06, Daniel Emory wrote: >WHAT I PROPOSE INSTEAD is that Adobe provide a new >version of FrameMaker that includes (in addition to >all the existing link types) the new types specified >in the XLink standard, and also provide an upgraded >version of Acrobat that can, when a