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

[Alan Litchfield]

All,

As a matter of interest. I went to the page on the original post. Noting that the only options for upgrade were from 8 or 9, I saw that at the bottom of the page there was a link for more information. In this country, we have no reseller network that services upgrades. The last time I upgraded I had to buy from Singapore.

Therefore, I have sent an email requesting information from Adobe (the third link IIRC).

*I have had no response.* I cannot ring the 1800 number because they do not work in this country. I cannot use the special links because this is not US or Canada.

Looks like I will be missing out on this offer because Adobe can't get its act together.

Not surprised really.

Alan

PS I would be interested to see a link to the special offer on Amazon.


On 8/06/2012, at 7:48 AM, Maxwell Hoffmann wrote:

> 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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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of framers-request at lists.frameusers.com
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 10:00 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: framers Digest, Vol 80, Issue 7
> 
>> Message: 11
>> 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
>> Message-ID:
>> 	<CAN3Yy4CfNf9Kx3ia8z6XYxWAR5j=RvJwp6TWzdKJys+ZuOkZvw at mail.gmail.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>> 
>> 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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