future of FrameMaker

[Dov Isaacs]

Just so nobody has any unwarranted expectations ...

Regardless of whether you or I like it, the next major version
of FrameMaker will NOT support Macintosh natively for the exact
same reasons such support was discontinued in the first place.
You obviously can try to use it under Parallels or Boot Camp on
MacIntel systems.

        - Dov


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Gold
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:10 PM
>
> Paul's raised an interesting issue here. With the release of the
> Technical Communication Suite, which includes Captivate 3, RoboHelp,
> and Acrobat 8 3D, the outlook for FM on Mac OS X looks bleaker because
> Captivate and RoboHelp are Windows-only applications, and Acrobat on
> Mac OS X is short a few important forms and other features because
> Apple doesn't expose the hooks they require for developers to program
> them.
>
> Perhaps the quote about FM development being frozen related to
> Macintosh support, which seems to be even more likely to be permanent
> with FM's bundled partner applications in the TCS.
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
> _______________________________
> Peter Gold
> KnowHow ProServices
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:51 PM, Paul Findon <pfindon at infopage.net> wrote:
> >  At the risk of repeating myself (ha, ha!), please tell RJ and the
> >  team that the feature I - and the nearly 4,000 Adobe customers who've
> >  signed the FM4OSX Petition - really, really want in FrameMaker 9.0 is
> >  support for Mac OS X.