Thanks. Very helpful, indeed. Bodvar
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Paul Findon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Framers, > > Following the recent discussion of FM features migrating to InDesign, > here's a snippet from an interview between Adobe Co-Chairman John > Warnock and Conrad Taylor, BCS Electronic Publishing Specialist Group > in 2004. > > Paul > > > Interviewer: Adobe has found itself in the situation of owning three > page make-up systems: PageMaker, InDesign and FrameMaker. I'm not > counting Illustrator for these purposes. When one starts to think > about Adobe getting involved in document composition issues, it's > time to pull out the flipchart and brainstorm about what are the > important aspects of document composition to support; which direction > to go. Those of us who use these tools often look around at other > software: 3B2 does this, Xyvision does this, Quark does this; > wouldn't it be nice to put them all in the blender, so to speak, and > extract one ideal application. > > Warnock: Well, that's a complicated problem. And there's a fair bit > of disagreement inside of Adobe as to what the appropriate thing is > to do. PageMaker as a codebase was just very long in the tooth: it > was not a maintainable codebase. It was clear when we acquired it > that it was not going to last for very long. Too much spaghetti-code: > very difficult. InDesign had just started as a project when we > acquired Aldus, and we continued with a very strong group of people: > Robert Brainsea and Zak Williamson, and a very strong group of people > who built the architecture for InDesign. But they were coming at it > from a very 'let's go build magazines' kind of perspective. Then > there was the other set of the world that works with highly > structured documents, and the FrameMaker world. And I absolutely love > FrameMaker; I've been a very strong proponent of FrameMaker. But > FrameMaker was also suffering from an old codebase. Essentially, the > idea is to start migrating features over to InDesign. Unfortunately, > the InDesign crowd doesn't understand the structured document world > as well as they need to, and so that migration has been coming along > more slowly than I would have liked it to have been. > > Interviewer: Some of the pagination issues, and table-handling… > > Warnock: Yes, and cross-referencing, and forward-referencing, and all > the things about dealing with highly structured documents. I'm a > structured-document person: I like them! > > Interviewer: You're in good company here! I've been using FrameMaker > for Macintosh since version 2.1. And now I shall be using Frame 7.0 > on the Mac under Classic mode – for the rest of time, perhaps. > > Warnock: Well hopefully someday there will be a version of InDesign > that will have the same properties. And to InDesign's credit, there > are people who have done math plug-ins and have started to get the > more arcane things into InDesign. But they haven't fundamentally > solved the structure problem. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/bodvar%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > -- "It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious." -- Edsel Murphy, dec. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.