WINE (Was Re: future of FrameMaker)

[Dov Isaacs]

Understand, though, that even if that "works" it would be considered
an unsupported configuration by Adobe. There is absolutely NO technical
support for using Adobe applications under such environments. (A similar
issue came up with regards to running InDesign under WINE on various
Linux and UNIX platforms.)

        - Dov

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Findon
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:53 PM
>
> On 14 Feb 2008, at 21:22, Dov Isaacs wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> A new version of WINE was released last week, so if you're an Intel
> Mac user and want to run Windows FrameMaker without Windows, VMWare,
> Parallels, or Boot Camp, you may wish to give it a try. They're
> looking for Framemaker users to test Framemaker and report bugs. More
> at:
> <http://wiki.winehq.org/AdobeFramemaker>
>
> Paul