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

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

PDF generation with intra-document references is one of the limitations in Adobe Acrobat equivalents from other sources (when used with FrameMaker) - Rick Quatro had mentioned this in a response to one of my earlier posts too.

However, from TeXstudio (i.e., when using LaTeX), I can get intra-document references to work sufficiently well (not perfectly, I admit) in PDF output, so I stopped searching for an alternative to Adobe Acrobat. FWIW, now, the only reason Acrobat gets used on my system is because I have been too lazy to remove it as the "default" app when I look at a PDF, or when I generate PDF output from an old FrameMaker doc.

I don't plan to upgrade Acrobat past my current version ... since I _think_ (no specific knowledge though) that the next version is likely to use a subscription model.

Z

> 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.