RANT: FM 9.0 -

[Alan T Litchfield]

Yo,

On 4/08/2010, at 6:59 AM, Fred Ridder wrote:

>>
> Their intent was to emulate other *Adobe* apps with floating  
> toolbars and dockable dialogs. Over the years, Adobe had made only  
> small changes to the original circa 1990 user interface that they  
> bought from Frame Technologies in 1995, and many people had  
> complained that the UI didn't look sufficiently Adobe-like. The fact  
> that FrameMaker 9.0 has a UI that looks and acts similarly to  
> Adobe's flagship apps should be a great benefit to the minuscule  
> handful of new users who come to FrameMaker from tools like  
> Photoshop or Illustrator or InDesign, but its value to experienced  
> FrameMaker users is (at best) debatable.

Which is why, after testing 9 I am still using 7.

On 4/08/2010, at 7:54 AM, Bill Swallow wrote:

> The tool should not
> get in the way of the task for which it was designed.
>


But of course it should, otherwise you might forget that you are using  
an *Adobe Product*. :P

Lightly
Alan
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