It seems that the benefits of Flare over Frame are:
- More customizable/better HTML output
- Better support
- Better single sourcing than unstructured Frame
- They don't charge an arm and a leg to pay for upgrades
The benefits of Frame over Flare are:
- Better PDFs
- Less of learning curve for unstructured Frame, and possibly for
structured Frame
I don't believe that Adobe has abandoned Frame, but they do charge an
insane amount for upgrades and the support is not so great, which is
similar to abandoning their users. Having said that, since I mainly
produce PDFs, I have no plans on switching to Flare any time soon.
--
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
058-763-7133
On 27-Jun-18 7:59 AM, Alan Litchfield wrote:
I don't think the issue in this conversation is about Adobe abandoning
FM, but that the corporate model Adobe chooses to use has effectively
driven a lot of us old timers out the door, into the arms of its
competitors. Yes, there have been a bunch of new features and added
support for functions that required external plug-in support
previously, but the interface is actually quite hard for me to
navigate now, especially now that so many keyboard commands have
disappeared or changed.
For me, my last favourite version was 7.2 on the Mac (which I still
have running by the way, on a G5 tower). Sure it lacked all the fancy
mod-cons of later versions but I could run that application for months
at a time (without shutting down the computer or program) without
issue. Can't say the same for the current version, I'm afraid. And as
I said earlier, part of the reason was being locked out of the
application due to licensing problems.
Version 5.5.2 on Linux was fun while it lasted. Of course, one does
miss the hominess of Frame Corp, but that was a long time ago now.
Alan
--
Dr Alan Litchfield
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941
Auckland, New Zealand 1140
On 27/06/18 13:42, ideasli...@ideastraining.com wrote:
I've been hearing rumors of Adobe's abandonment of Frame for years,
if not
decades. The timing of these rumors is almost as regular as an atomic
clock...
Abandonment hasn't happened yet. Oddly, I find the rumors tend to peak
before Adobe announces a new version. This list, or any public list,
is not
a good way to make a decision about FrameMaker. Those that know can't
say;
those that say usually don't know.
David Creamer
IDEAS Training
______________________
All of these posts regarding Adobe's poor support/abandonment of FM
are one
of the reasons why my company decided to focus on another tool and
migrate
away from FM. All of the technical publications staff (including me)
are
now using Madcap Flare and we have just completed a 2 year migration
of all
FM documents into Flare. It was a bit sad to say goodbye to FM, but
the
handwriting was on the wall.
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