Hi Pat, I got my MacBook Pro in November 2012. First I asked for a Windows machine. That was rejected. Then I tried VirtualBox, and that did not work well for a number of reasons that I no longer recall. (I had plenty of support from well-meaning engineers.) Then one of those well-meaning engineers took my Mac home over the weekend and when I got it back it was great. He had configured Bootcamp to use virtually all the Mac resources and since then it has been a Windows machine, first Win7 and now Win10 with TCS 2015. I was just talking to our IT guy. I am due for an upgrade, but I told him that I don't want it because my system ain't broke, so please don't fix it. About 21 months ago, we added two more writers. They got Macs, but set up Parallels. Parallels was a resource hog and their systems never ran as well as my older Bootcamp one. In December, they switched to Bootcamp, with happy results. I recommend Bootcamp over Parallels or VirtualBox for our kind of work.
On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Pat Christenson < pat.christen...@morningstar.com> wrote: > Hi, John - > > I've run FrameMaker under both Parallels and VMware Fusion but have only > used in on a Windows platform for the last several years. I may soon be in > a position to use a Mac again. I'm curious about your preference for > Bootcamp (which I've never used). I would also love to hear from other > Framers on this topic. > > Thanks. > > Pat Christenson > > ------------------------------------------------ > > John Sgammato wrote: > > In other news, we are also a Mac house. Over three years of > trial-and-error, we have determined that our best setup is Bootcamp on the > Mac, not Parallels and not VirtualMachine. > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Robyn Chittister <rchittis...@vlocity.com> > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Does anyone use FrameMaker and then integrate that documentation with > > Salesforce? > > > > I'm 1 of 1-1/2 technical writers at a start up that creates cloud apps > > for Salesforce. We are currently using Salesforce Knowledge to create > > and deliver our documentation. Knowledge is possibly the worst > > documentation tool I have ever used. We've been looking at various > > single-sourcing solutions, and we're down to MadCap Flare and FrameMaker. > > > > I'm a FrameMaker user from way back - I started with FM+SGML 5.5 in > > 1999. I developed templates and tools for FM+SGML and FM+XML from > > 1999-2005. I've used FM 12 in an unstructured environment, and am > > happy to see the improvements. I'm not sure how many improvements > > there have been in the structured environment, however. I've tried to > > contact Adobe, and have gotten a human being to say he'll give my > > questions to a solutions specialist to answer. Knowing Adobe, I'm not > going to hold my breath. > > > > My questions are: > > > > - Is anyone here writing doc for Salesforce or Salesforce apps? If so, > > what tools do you use? > > - Is there a good comparison of the most recent versions of Flare v. > FM? > > The only ones I've been able to find are from several years ago. > > - Is anyone here using FM+XML (either v12 or 2015) who could answer > some > > specific questions I have about it? > > > > > > We're a Mac house, so I can't just download the trial versions. We > > understand that we will need to get me set up with a VM and Windows to > > use the software we choose. > > > > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. > > > > ~Robyn > > > > -- > > > > > > *Robyn Chittister | Senior Technical Writer* > > > > E: rchittis...@vlocity.com | P: 925.695.5710 | W: www.vlocity.com > > <http://www.vlocity.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > > > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's > > homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at > > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > > > > > > -- > > <http://www.actifio.com/> *John Sgammato, Documentation Architect* > *e* john.sgamm...@actifio.com *c* 508.927.2083 > *t* @actifiodocs <http://twitter.com/actifiodocs> > > 333 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451 > <http://twitter.com/actifio> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/399246> > <https://plus.google.com/102870897962348937868/posts> > <http://www.youtube.com/user/actifio> <http://www.actifio.com/> > > *Manage, access, and protect your data with a single platform that saves > you time, money, and complexity.* > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage > at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com > -- <http://www.actifio.com/> *John Sgammato, Documentation Architect* *e* john.sgamm...@actifio.com *c* 508.927.2083 *t* @actifiodocs <http://twitter.com/actifiodocs> 333 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451 <http://twitter.com/actifio> <http://www.linkedin.com/company/399246> <https://plus.google.com/102870897962348937868/posts> <http://www.youtube.com/user/actifio> <http://www.actifio.com/> *Manage, access, and protect your data with a single platform that saves you time, money, and complexity.* _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com