I would look for increased FrameMaker presence at the Adobe booths in the UK and elsewhere during the rest of this year. I believe this year's WritersUA conference in Palm Springs, California (April 9 - 12) was the first in which Adobe staff members showed up in substantial numbers to promote their "tech pubs" products (FrameMaker, RoboHelp, Captivate).
-Alan Steve Rickaby wrote: > This is good to hear, but a sad contrast, afaik, with what happens in > the UK. Here it is CS2, CS2, CS2. I am trying to do my bit of > banner-carrying by taking over editorship of a series of articles in > 'Communicator', the ISTC's quarterly journal: FrameMaker needs as much > exposure as it can get, whatever platform it happens to run on. (The > ISTC is the UK's closest equivalent to the STC.) > I was recently at IPEX, the quadrennial (? - every four years, anyway) show > for the printing and publishing industries. Apple and Adobe had stands - > perhaps blessedly separated by the Sun stand. No mention of FrameMaker from > Adobe, as usual, although the guys on the stand were somewhat amused by my > 'FrameMaker for OS X' T-shirt. They were, however, interested in FrameMaker, > some had worked on or with it, and were happy to talk about it. > > To be fair, IPEX is not geared towards the tech writing world either, but I > suspect that a lot of the attendees were heavily involved in the sort of > corporate publications at which FrameMaker can shine. > -- Alan Houser, President Group Wellesley, Inc. 412-363-3481 www.groupwellesley.com