TCS subscription model: Illustrator version, and can you go back to buying TCS outright as an upgrade later?

[Shmuel Wolfson]

I'm not sure if I agree with you about Adobe not having a captive 
audience with FrameMaker. As far as an editor that is relatively easy to 
use and that has nice single-sourcing features (conditional text and 
sharing files between books), I don't know of anything that is 
comparable to Unstructured FrameMaker.

If they switch to subscription only, I may try to switch to Help & 
Manual, which is supposedly easy to use. But I don't think it will be as 
easy to create PDFs with Help & Manual since it's topic based and 
probably not as WYSIWYG as Frame.

Regards,
Shmuel Wolfson
Technical Writer
052-763-7133
  

On 30-Jul-13 6:31 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:
> Adobe has something of a captive market with InDesign. The same isn't
> true for FrameMaker and RoboHelp.
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
> (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
>> Ø  They get more $ by forcing all users to upgrade with each new release
>> whether they want to or not, so barring the CS subscription-only model
>> causing mass migration to other products (sadly, not likely), TCS will go
>> the same path.
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