Circa 1981 Charles Corfield pitched his idea for an
"industrial-strength WYSIWYG word processor" to Sun, which lent him a
workstation.
https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/products/framemaker/whitepapers/25_Years_of_Adobe_Framemaker.pdf
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 10:00 AM Peter Gold wrote:
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Flare's arguably the best alternative to FrameMaker. If your .fm files
are formatted consistently, little or no cleanup may be required after
import.
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 11:49 PM Caroline Tabach
wrote:
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> Someone said they hesitated to recommend Frame because of recent
> installation
You can't buy FrameMaker any more. Subscription only. $360 a year is
quite cheap compared with other tools. I'm paying a little over $3,000
a year for Paligo. Flare is $2,000.
PDF's still a customer requirement for many products, but the other
single-sourcing tools I've used all produce
Well ... I don't bash FrameMaker because of its capabilities, but I do bash
them for the upgrade pricing changes over the years.
For me to see the benefits of stability that Reng Winfried says is now
available (since FM 7), would require paying for a full FM license - eek!
Of course, I do not
Matt's stuff has saved my bacon more times than I count w/ the newest
release of RH, and w/ the newest releases of FM. I am using FM2019 because I
really absolutely did not need any of the bells and whistles that keep being
added to FM after FM12, and I would have gladly had FM12 pried out of my
Sean,
The binary data in a FrameMaker file identifies the version of
FrameMaker used to create the file. Each version of FrameMaker can open
files created in that version and earlier, but not files created in a
later version. In particular, FM 2019 cannot open files created in FM
2020,
They gave you a link to the latest general release. Only participants in
the beta program get to download beta versions. :D
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 10:19 PM wrote:
> Well, you are right. I now have FrameMaker 16 (2020), Adobe tech support
> gave me the link, but I have no idea if it is actually
Matt has published Working with Content 2020, which is for the most recent
version of Frame. It's based on the Scriptorium Using FrameMaker 8, and
it's pretty helpful. I do recommend it if you're sick of the online help.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 6:33 PM wrote:
> I will say among the many things
