Maurice Bauhahn wrote : >No, FrameMaker 6.0 does not support Unicode. So if I get it right for FrameMaker6.0+SGML to support Chinese I need a Chinese OS? And to support French (spelling, hyphenation) and Chinese? Can I use a French FrameMaker+SGML on a Chinese OS? >This is a sore point with me. >Discussions with Adobe folk at an ATYPI conference a little over a year ago >did not leave me with any hope that Adobe would start supporting Unicode in >that product either. It is dangerous to own the second priority product when >a company publishes two products of similar genre...and especially so when >the second priority product is bought in. The worse thing that happened to >FrameMaker was to be bought by Adobe;-( Does someone know whether there is an upgrade path from FrameMaker+SGML to something else, let's say InDesign (through XML/RTF Documents)? Does such a move make technical (is InDesign able to handle documents of thousand of pages, same features as FrameMaker?) or strategical sense (how is FrameMaker evolving(*))? How is the Unicode support of InDesign? Patrick Andries (*) The Adobe link "FrameMaker is alive and well!" leads to a File not Found...An ominous sign ? http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/prodinfosgml.html then click to go to http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/fmkrelease.html
