So how many of us are stuck with Frame 7.2?

[Writer]

Maybe it's time for someone to build a whole new mousetrap.

Nadine

--- On Tue, 3/1/11, Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com> wrote:

> From: Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com>
> Subject: Re: So how many of us are stuck with Frame 7.2?
> To: "'Framers'" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
> Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 5:24 PM
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 14:23:06 -0500,
> "Rick Quatro" <rick at rickquatro.com>
> 
> wrote:
> 
> >I agree with Scott. For me, FrameMaker 8 is the gold
> standard. It supports
> >Unicode, 
> 
> I agree.  I use FM 8 myself, and our pubs manager uses
> 7.0.
> If you don't need Unicode, there's no reason to go past 7.
> And if you do need Unicode, there's no reason to go past
> 8.
> 
> >but is not encumbered by the new interface and slow
> performance of
> >FrameMaker 9 (the Windows Millennium version of
> FrameMaker :-)). FrameMaker
> >10 is better than 9, but, as Scott said, only upgrade
> if you need some of
> >the new features.
> 
> *What* new features???  The majority of those claimed
> are, IMHO, hype.  Some don't work at all (the "new"
> CMYK
> support), others (like DITA) are far better supported by
> much less expensive third-party software (DITA-FMx).
> 
> And one of the elephants in the living room is that there
> is *no* FDK support for the new UI, making it very hard 
> for any third-party app to play nice with 9 and 10. 
> The
> FDK still has the docs for 7.0, the last time any real
> engineering occurred, IMHO.  You know, before they
> fired 
> the surviving staff from Frame Tech so as to make more
> money by outsourcing "development" to India. 
> <sigh/>
> 
> I'm just sad that the product I've appreciated, supported,
> and recommended since version 3.0 has come to this...
> 
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
>   <jeremy at omsys.com> 
> http://www.omsys.com/
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