Adobe announces FM9 and Tech Comm Suite 2

[Fred Ridder]

Clint Owen wrote:
 
> Does anyone know if the PDF review feature will be available in 
> FM 9 by itself, if you don't buy the whole TC Suite? We use FM, 
> but not the other components of the suite. This feature alone is 
> probably worth the upgrade from FM 7 to 9, but I doubt that the 
> company would want to pay for the other applications that we won't use.
I notice that TCS 2.0 includes a version of Acrobat called Acrobat 9.0
Pro Extended, and I suspect that this is the "special sauce" that makes
the new PDF workflow work. So I suspect that the real question is 
whether that version of Acrobat will be available as a standalone 
product, as well as whether it hooks into the standalone version of 
FrameMaker 9.0. 
 
-Fred Ridder