FrameMaker 12 released

[Robert Lauriston]

I don't understand why you would stop using it for new docs. Most of
the software I've bought I've never upgraded.

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 6:05 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
(Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
> My comment was that at some time, I could simply stop upgrading and continue to use that last version (as you had mentioned in a post last year) rather than change all the older documents to a new tool.
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> We simply chose to stop at different versions, I suppose ... for me, it is version 11, for you, an earlier version, I guess.
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>> I don't understand your reasoning. I don't need upgrades to use FrameMaker. It has been going downhill from version 9 on.
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> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 5:50 PM, Syed Zaeem Hosain
> (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net> wrote:
>> Yeah, I would love to continue to use FrameMaker, but $399 for
>> upgrades is too high - the older upgrades at $199 were more easily justifiable. I will simply use FM 11 for maintaining my old documents (as Robert Lauriston as mentioned that I should do) and have already switched to LaTeX for all my new work. The price and upgrade "costs" of LaTeX - after a 2 month learning curve - are infinitely better for _my_ needs! :)
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