FrameMaker on Mac

[Steve Rickaby]

At 20:28 -0700 6/4/06, Pat Christenson wrote:

>Very mixed feelings here. As I understand it, you have to boot into either OS X or Windows which makes it more cumbersome than Classic. But Classic isn't an option on the new computers so once again, it's like it or lump it for Mac users.

Yes, Boot Camp is dual boot. A dual-boot Mac is no use to me, because I need to use a lot of other software *at the same time* as FrameMaker, cross-referencing Excel, mail and so on. One could do this most easily by networking a real PC to the Mac, and running FrameMaker on that.

I was at IPEX on Wednesday, the big 4-yearly UK show for the printing and publishing industries, and talked to the people on the Apple stand. Their general view was that Apple had done it because there were a lot of Windows users who wanted to run XP on Apple's 'real cool, superior hardware' [I am quoting here]. I hope this doesn't turn out to be hubris. My concern is that with Apple MacIntels being able to run XP, what is the incentive for Adobe to go on producing *any Mac applications at all*?
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Steve