Matt's stuff has saved my bacon more times than I count w/ the newest release of RH, and w/ the newest releases of FM. I am using FM2019 because I really absolutely did not need any of the bells and whistles that keep being added to FM after FM12, and I would have gladly had FM12 pried out of my cold, dead hands if given a choice, but alas. . . support for FM12 is no longer possible w/ ePub from Webworks, so I had to suck it up and upgrade, but I dug my heels in and paid for a perpetual license (w/out any upgrade cost consideration).
Tammy Van Boening Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com www.spectrumwritingllc.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Framers <framers- > [email protected]> On > Behalf Of Lin Sims > Sent: Friday, October 15, 2021 6:10 AM > To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Framers] Stefan wanted to know why so many of us Adobe > users "feel" the way we do about Adobe > > Matt has published Working with Content 2020, which is for the most recent > version of Frame. It's based on the Scriptorium Using FrameMaker 8, and it's > pretty helpful. I do recommend it if you're sick of the online help. > > On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 6:33 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I will say among the many things that annoy about Adobe, the one that > > really, really annoys me is that it purports itself to be a technical > > communication company, yet after around FM 6.0, the absolutely > > FANTASTIC User guides that they produced to support the use of their > > products just when down the tubes . . .zip, zilch, nada for how many > > years now? I still have my very dog-eared, tattered Frame bibles that > > were sent w/ FM 5.5.6, > > 6.0 and 7.0 and they are my life-savers to this day when I need to > > remember how to do something that I haven't done in a long time. > > Nowadays, you're left to hunting and pecking out on the web, hoping > > like H*LL that someone in a forum has had the same problem asked and > > answered, or that in Adobe's lame excuse for Online documentation for > > any product, that you find a hint of what you need. > > > > I was stuck using RH2019 WAY before it was ready for prime time a few > > years ago and if it weren't for Matt Sullivan's class, and the support > > of Peter Grainger, and Surbhi Maheshwari directly from Adobe, I would > > have just slit my wrists and it shouldn't have had to be like that at all. > > Adobe's online "documentation" was so lame - grossly incomplete, flat > > out wrong in places, missing critical information. How on earth did > > they expect anyone to be able to use a brand new product w/out any > > decent user documentation - by osmosis or serendipitously? > > > > And yes, I agree - Adobe has D*MNED good products that meet the needs > > of projects unlike any other product, but w/out competent and timely > > support - either the human kind or the user guide kind - it doesn't > > matter. If you can't use the product the correct way and to its > > fullest extent, what's the point? > > > > Tammy Van Boening > > Tammy dot vanboening at spectrumwritingllc dot com > > www.spectrumwritingllc.com > > > -- > Lin Sims > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to [email protected] 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 [email protected] _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] 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 [email protected]
