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

[Alan Litchfield]

Unless/when print technologies change, then you might need that step. 
Until then your existing Acrobat will continue to work with the old 
license. I still run a #8 version on an old computer.

Alan



On 30/10/13 5:54 AM, Mike Wickham wrote:
> I'm in that crowd, too. My books go to press and I use Acrobat to 
> generate my PDF. I'm sure third party choices could work well, too, 
> but I prefer Acrobat. (That could change if Adobe takes it to a 
> subscription-only model.)
>
> Mike Wickham
>
> On 10/29/2013 10:14 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote:
>> At 21:02 -0500 28/10/13, Mike Wickham wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>> Those of us who take books to press are tied to PDF/Acrobat, as it's 
>> become pretty much the mandatory pre-press format.
>>
>
>
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Dr Alan Litchfield
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