I think we should be happy that the new version has some significant
improvements and shows that Frame is NOT a dead or dying product,
instead of complaining about the lateness of the new features.
Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Alison Carrico wrote:
In my business (document/software
and faster improvement to stay relevant or it will be left behind.
john
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Shmuel Wolfson
Sent: Wed 8/29/2007 5:22 AM
To: Alison Carrico
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: first impressions of FrameMaker 8
I think we should be happy
Unfortunately, I think a lot depends on when the 9.0 release appears,
because that will tell us if FM is on the more-or-less-standard 2-year
release cycle that many (most, I don't know...) Adobe products (the CS
suite, at least) seem to be on.
Also, I'd expect that Chris' codebase theory is going
Well,
As long as Framemaker 8.0 cannot create a decent PDF without turning on the
Tagged PDF option I'd withhold my horses.
Of course, the new Unicode support is very attractive, and really should have
been there for ages now, but as long as book cannot be turned into PDF format
'just like
In my business (document/software translation/localization), the Unicode
support alone is worth the price of admission several times over. I was
as giddy as a schoolgirl when I printed a Russian doc to PDF all the
bookmarks came out perfectly. I've been using TimeSavers in 7.1 and,
while it is a
opinion...
Fred Ridder
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Subject: RE: first impressions of FrameMaker 8
In my business (document/software translation/localization
FM8 looks like a codebase update to me. They've built in the
infrastructure they need for most new features that require interaction
with deeper layers of the underlying code, and made the application
competitive so it can be on par with the rest of their coming office
tools suite. The future is
I've played with the FM 8 trial version for an hour or two. In addition
to Sarah's findings, I noticed that (disappointingly) some old interface
problems remain. Dialogs like Conditional Text, Variable and
Cross-Reference are still not resizable. Variable and Cross-Reference
are still modal.
The
Thanks, Sarah,
Lot of things here to support my suspicion that Adobe should have
waited a couple of months with this release. We will probably see more
than a couple of patches soon.
This registering thing: does it mean that we no longer can install the
same FM on two computers like the license
Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
This registering thing: does it mean that we no longer can install the
same FM on two computers like the license used to be (one at work or
main computer and one at home or on a laptop, IIRC)?
If the FM8 standalone license is consistent with licenses for other
work pretty well.
- Dov
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From: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:36 PM
To: Sarah O'Keefe
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Subject: Re: first impressions of FrameMaker 8
Thanks, Sarah,
Lot of things here to support my suspicion that Adobe
Yes, it works well in Acrobat. Or is this activation thing different
from what was in Acrobat 8?
On 8/9/07, Dov Isaacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The activation mechanism supports two activations such
that you can use the software per the EULA. Note that if
you need to move from a system to
Same
- Dov
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From: Bill Swallow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 3:29 PM
To: Dov Isaacs
Cc: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson; Sarah O'Keefe; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: first impressions of FrameMaker 8
Yes, it works well in Acrobat
and I have to reload the OS in
any way.
Z
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From: Bodvar Bjorgvinsson
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 2:36 PM
To: Sarah O'Keefe
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: first impressions of FrameMaker 8
Thanks, Sarah,
Lot of things here to support my suspicion that Adobe
O'Keefe; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: first impressions of FrameMaker 8
Hi, Dov, et. al.
Dov Isaacs wrote:
The activation mechanism supports two activations such
that you can use the software per the EULA. Note that if
you need to move from a system to another (i.e., a third
system
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Hi, Dov, et. al.
Dov Isaacs wrote:
The activation mechanism supports two activations such
that you can use the software per the EULA. Note that if
you need to move from a system to another (i.e., a third
system), there is a function to DE
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