On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 18:41 -0500, Gary Schnabl wrote: > > On a purely practical note, I doubt many (if any) other members of the > > OOo Docs project have a copy of FrameMaker (or would be willing to pay > > for one), which would seriously limit the number of people able to work > > on full books. > > > Shopping reputable sources on eBay, one can get legal versions of > FrameMaker very cheaply, especially the older versions. I got my legal > Adobe Acrobat Professional 8 for less than $100 right after version 9 > came out years ago. Amazon is another source like eBay for getting all > sorts of things. > > Somebody working or studying at a university should have access to both > FrameMaker and Acrobat. >
All of that is irrelevant to the many of us who don't -- and won't -- use Windows for anything other than testing purposes. I forgot to mention the Windows-only aspect in my list of reasons why FM is not an acceptable program for our purposes. --Jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
