Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

[Rick Quatro]

Here is my suggestion on where to start. I would like a light-weight editor
where the user could apply styles, insert tables, images, etc. The styles
would be mapped to a schema so that the user could output XML. Then a full
copy of FrameMaker could be used as "print engine". You would set up a
structured application in full FrameMaker, and import the XML for print,
etc.

The reasons I favor this approach:

1) FrameMaker is currently the best "print engine" on the market for
producing high-quality print/PDF output.

2) With a light-weight editor, you would only need one copy of FrameMaker
for output. The rest of the writers/editors could use the light-weight
editor.

3) You could easily exchange content with users of other XML editors as long
as everyone is using the same schema.

4) This is a realistic "first step" to a FrameMaker replacement. Anything
more complex may be too ambitious and not get too far.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-283-5045
rick at frameexpert.com



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 11:15 AM
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Subject: RE: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

2013-05-13-01T15:15Z

I, too, am interested in addition to Alan Litchfield, Syed Hosain, et al.

Dave Stamm
Information Engineer


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jeremy H.
Griffith
Sent: 2013-05-11-Saturday 20:54
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription only

On Sat, 11 May 2013 11:33:13 -0700 (PDT), Writer <generic668 at yahoo.ca>
wrote:

>I say we start a new company and create a competitor to FrameMaker! 
>Who's with me? Anyone? Anyone?

Well... we've had one on the back burner for several years now.
Basically it's an Open Source GPL project, so zero financing needed, with a
very basic core and plugins independently installable for most of the
functionality.  We called it "Omni 2.0", after the very first product I
wrote, the first screen-oriented editor ever on CP/M 1.4 on
8080 (way before WordStar).

If there really is much interest, we can set it up as a SourceForge project
pretty easily (we have a couple of others on SourceForge).
We're not set on that name, or on much of anything else except GPL.

Greed doesn't always have to win out...  ;-)

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>    http://mif2go.com/
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