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

[Robert Lauriston]

I think I know all the features added in FM 8 through 10. I think the
Find Character Format Overrides might be the first one I've found
useful and there are cheap utilities that do the same. Most of the
functionality has not changed since 5.5.6 and many features feel like
they were designed for Windows 386. It's shameful, really.

If I needed Unicode support, I'd take FM8 rather than lose
productivity every day to FM 9/10's keyboard-hostile and buggy UI.

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:48 PM, Maxwell Hoffmann <mhoffman at adobe.com> 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.