Yo, On 4/08/2010, at 6:59 AM, Fred Ridder wrote:
>> > Their intent was to emulate other *Adobe* apps with floating > toolbars and dockable dialogs. Over the years, Adobe had made only > small changes to the original circa 1990 user interface that they > bought from Frame Technologies in 1995, and many people had > complained that the UI didn't look sufficiently Adobe-like. The fact > that FrameMaker 9.0 has a UI that looks and acts similarly to > Adobe's flagship apps should be a great benefit to the minuscule > handful of new users who come to FrameMaker from tools like > Photoshop or Illustrator or InDesign, but its value to experienced > FrameMaker users is (at best) debatable. Which is why, after testing 9 I am still using 7. On 4/08/2010, at 7:54 AM, Bill Swallow wrote: > The tool should not > get in the way of the task for which it was designed. > But of course it should, otherwise you might forget that you are using an *Adobe Product*. :P Lightly Alan -- Alan T Litchfield AlphaByte PO Box 141, Auckland, 1140 New Zealand http://www.alphabyte.co.nz http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice