Well said Rick.
Scott White Media Production & EBC Manager Implementation Coordinator 210-704-8239 swhite at alamark.com On Jan 29, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Rick Quatro wrote: > I share your "slack-jawed wonder" with this. FrameMaker seems to be focused > on improvements for a particular market (structured Frame, DITA, topic-based > authoring), while at the same time neglecting an existing market (catalogs > and books with color requirements). A baseline requirement for any > page-layout program is to do color correctly (not to mention a pasteboard, > paragraph rules, baseline shift, ruler guides, "Don't show this again" in > warning dialog boxes, etc.). There is antidotal evidence that even users > moving to structured authoring are moving away from FrameMaker. Because of > FrameMaker's traditional strengths, I have always said that the technical > and long-document publishing market is Adobe's to lose. Unfortunately, their > handling of FrameMaker has been largely self-destructive. > > The suggestion to move to InDesign is certainly not appropriate for many > large catalogs, particularly if you are using automation. While InDesign is > very scriptable, its scripting performance (and performance in general) on > large documents is very sluggish. > > I realize that Dov has nothing directly to do with FrameMaker, but I wonder > if any of the FrameMaker people at Adobe read this list. > > Rick Quatro > Carmen Publishing Inc. > 585-659-8267 > rick at frameexpert.com > www.frameexpert.com > > http://www.frameexpert.com/peace/ > > > > At 09:58 -0800 28/1/10, Dov Isaacs wrote: > >> On the Macintosh, real grayscale TIFF came out into PostScript and hence > PDF as grayscale. Other than for EPS, this never happened on Windows prior > to FrameMaker 9 "save as PDF" without the RGB option.... Quite frankly, if > you really need to worry about critical color and graphic arts issues and >> don't need certain FrameMaker creature comforts and structured document > features, you might consider migrating to InDesign. > > I have been following this thread with a certain amount of slack-jawed > wonder. A pr?cis seems to be 'Mac FrameMaker did color right, Windows > FrameMaker doesn't and may never'. > > Draw your own conclusions. I doubt whether Scott's looking forward to > migrating his client's catalogs, with thousands of pages and millions of > images, to InDesign. > > -- > Steve > _______________________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as swhite at alamark.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/swhite%40alamark.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > >