So Long and Thanks for the Fish -- Migrating from FrameMaker to Flare

[Mike Wickham]

VLM TechSubs wrote:
> It occurs to me that leaving FrameMaker cuts one’s last tie to Adobe 
> Acrobat, as well. One may need Acrobat to publish from Adobe 
> applications, but not to publish from anyplace else, of which I am aware.

Adobe applications don't tie you to Acrobat. FM includes a PDF-creation 
add-on (an Acrobat subset, of course) that can be installed or not, and 
can output in HTML, XML, too. Other Adobe programs have PDF capability 
built-in. There are third-party PDF creators out there, as well.

Nobody needs PDF unless they want to create documents that will retain 
fonts and formatting to display identically on every computer. But if 
you want that, you want PDF-- and you probably want Acrobat because it 
is the most stable and full-featured.

Mike Wickham