OT: Corporate madness - Adobe software to be subscription

[Alexandra Duffy]

I hesitate to wade into the fray, but in defense of the FrameMaker engineers, I have to say that they have incorporated a lot of user requests into recent versions. I (gasp!) really like FM11 (I use unstructured), and the improvements and new features in RH 10 are wonderful too. The FM marker and cross-reference pods (or panels or whatever they're called), which are new-ish features, are great and work well. Other "little" features like drag-and-drop text and on-the-fly spelling check and have increased my productivity. I would not want to return to FM8, no way.
Now the subscription-only idea, I can't stand that, and hope it does not come to the TCS. Like another poster, I use lots of other Adobe production software like Premiere Pro, Encore, etc. and I will NOT pay monthly fees for their use. I have CS6 and I won't be upgrading. If monthly fees for the latest stuff work for some people or corporations, fine - but give us the choice if it is not how we want to do business.
Alexandra

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> Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 08:11:47 -0700
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> How about you doing some reading and making a to-do list of the basic
> features that FrameMaker users have been requesting for years?
> 
> An easy way to find out what many of those are is to look at the
> plug-ins that people are willing to pay for. How are book-level
> variables, real templates, and external stylesheets still not part of
> the base product? Why, despite the extensive UI changes in FM9, do we
> still have tiny fixed-sized list boxes from the 1980s?