Frame Light, what's the potential market?

[Scott Prentice]

I'd like to see this as well, but also doubt that this would be 
something that Adobe will get behind. You'd think that Adobe's 
web-editor (Buzzword) would export to FM (or MIF), but no. It exports to 
PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, ZIP, TXT, ODT, and EPUB (hmm .. need to check that 
out). C'mon .. MIF is just a simple conversion from RTF!  :)

...scott


Rick Quatro wrote:
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> One more thing regarding this: I highly doubt that Adobe is going to 
> do this anyway. The next best thing would be a light-weight, 
> inexpensive editor, either in a browser or stand-alone, that would 
> work with a schema to enforce standards. I suppose I am thinking of an 
> XML editor, so maybe this already exists. Any suggestions, 
> recommendations, or further discussion, would be welcome. Thank you 
> very much.
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> *From:* framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Anthony Davey
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:57 AM
> *To:* framers at lists.frameusers.com
> *Subject:* Frame Light, what's the potential market?
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>  
>
> Cross posted to dita-frameusers, so ignore as needed ...
>
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>
> 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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