Purchase question

[Robert Lauriston]

Adobe's store has really bad UI, at least for FrameMaker. Click Buy
Now, then change the "I want to buy" to Full.

Before you spend $1000, you might want to do a free evaluation of MadCap Flare.

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Bertrand Meyer
<Bertrand.Meyer at inf.ethz.ch> wrote:
> This is a newbie question; on the technical side I am not a FrameMaker
> newbie, having used it for several decades, but I am not familiar with
> recent versions since I have stuck to old ones which do what I need, on
> Solaris and Windows. With recent releases of Windows, however, FrameMaker
> 7.2, which I still use, crashes increasingly often (for example just using
> the mouse to select text that includes a table invariably causes a crash).
> That’s not sustainable so I need to upgrade. For the most recent version all
> I saw on Adobe’s page is a software-for-rent solution, which is not
> acceptable. Could someone please recommend a version that is the most recent
> possible, is available for purchase, works reliably on recent versions of
> Windows (Windows 8.1, soon Windows 10), will take older *.fm files, generate
> MIF, and retain the traditional FrameMaker advantages?