Frame Light, what's the potential market?

[Flato, Gillian]

It will never happen.

Adobe's solution is for you to give someone an edible PDF and have them comment in the PDF in sticky notes or mark the PDF using the advanced text editor tools. Then, with Acro 10, you can import their comments and changes into Frame and then accept or reject them through track  changes and conditions.



Thank you,


Gillian Flato
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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Brad Anderson
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 2:21 PM
To: Anthony Davey
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Frame Light, what's the potential market?

I, too, have wished for the capability for more than 10 years and have requested it numerous times from Adobe.   This would be one way to bring back the Mac version--add FrameMaker lite to the App store.  I think a price point of $99 or less would be great.   There are too many of our clients that end up porting their documents back and forth from Word to FrameMaker.   This is due to licensing costs, training, and Word just has better (and more easily used) functions for tracking and editing changes.

I think it was a mistake for FrameMaker 10 not to include ePub output directly from FrameMaker.  I can output an ePub straight from InDesign or straight from Apple Pages, but I need the full TCS3 to output ePub through RoboHelp.

Here's hoping for a FrameMaker lite...

Brad




On Feb 22, 2011, at 4:56 AM, Anthony Davey wrote:


Cross posted to dita-frameusers, so ignore as needed ...

I had an interesting discussion with the Frame Product Manager a few days ago at
the London launch event for TCS3.  It seems there is the motivation to develop a
business case for 'Frame Light' which could be used by SMEs to create and review
content, but little else.

I work in an environment where I am the only Frame user (experimenting with 10
at the moment) in an organisation with over 100 SMEs producing content in Word.
Most do their own thing, or come to me to 'fix' or standardise stuff once it is
collected together.

So, I would want 'Frame Light' to allow content creation in structured or
unstructured format (including DITA one day), but that requires the content
provider to use only the pre-determined paragraph formats and a few text styles
(emphasis, bold, sub- and superscript); and insert images by reference.  I can
get around a need to define conditional text by using different paragraph format
names.  All this in templates that can only be developed or altered by full
license holders.

To support the development of a business case can you post what (other)
functionality you would want Frame Light to have, how many licenses you would
(ideally) want in your organisation, how many full Frame licenses you currently
have (for comparison purposes), how you would want FL delivered (local install,
web-based, floating licenses), and what you would want/need to pay for it to get
it accepted as an alternative to Whatever word processing your SMEs currently
use?

Creating more disciplined (structured), reusable, content which can be output
with a similar look and feel, and doesn't reinvent a wheel each time an SME puts
fingers to keyboard, is a concept which has almost reached its time in my
organisation. Others may be close, or even ahead, so there must be demand for
this.  Please let me know.

Best regards,
Ant

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