FYI: Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15

[Maxwell Hoffmann]

FYI -

Robert, I respect your opinion on FM7.x. I have observed that in isolated cases a single person or small advanced group of advanced users are sometimes capable of exercising enough discipline to continue satisfactory production with version FM7.x , which was last updated 7 years ago. 

There *are*, however, definite limitations with FM7.x vs. FM10 that affect most people, e.g. no Unicode support, no rich graphics, more time-consuming steps in locating and removing format overrides, and a more challenging path to output to ePubs (via TCS.) For many of us, changing demands on our deliverables are not met by code that was written 7 to 10 years ago. 

There is a long list of nearly 50 enhancements to FrameMaker that have taken place over the past 10 years, listed at the *bottom* of the call to action webpage below. I'll use the full URL, just scroll to the bottom:

http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/fm-upgrade.html

There are 2 short blogs that anyone in a mid-sized workgroup with FM7.x should consider reviewing. 
(NOTE: edit line breaks in the full URLs below before copy/paste into browser address field.)

(a) Blog with links to 4 Captivate videos:

http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2012/05/videos-5-compelling-reasons-to-upgrade-from-framemaker-7-x-to-framemaker-10.html

(b) Blog highlighting timesaving features for FM7.x users who are not interested in structure:

http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2012/06/what-if-you-use-framemaker-7-x-and-dont-want-dita-upgrade-to-fm-10.html

I hope many in the group will share this information with their contacts who are not fully satisfied with FrameMaker 7.x, as this such FM users to upgrade FrameMaker to FrameMaker, rather than FrameMaker to the full Tech Comm Suite. 

For those interested, time is running out as there are now only 8 days left to take advantage of the promotion. This topic becomes a dead issue a week from tomorrow.

I will step aside from this topic.
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>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 08:54:09 -0700
>From: Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
>To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>Subject: Re: FYI: Deal for upgrading from FM7.x to FM10 ends June 15
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>The offer is "Adobe FrameMaker 7.X customers can receive a savings of
>30% on the FULL version of FrameMaker 10 software purchased through
>Adobe Customer Service, or a participating reseller worldwide."
>
>Adobe charges $999, 30% off that is $699. Amazon charges $634.
>
>Personally I'd stick with 7 unless I had a specific reason to upgade.
>Adobe introduced a lot of bugs with the UI makeover in FM9 and if
>anything they got worse in FM10. The last new feature they added that
>I have any use for was the multiple undo in 7.2.

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