[Framers] new framemaker release

[Craig Ede]

Thank you, Klaus. That is a very well thought out capsule review. I appreciate the time you have put into letting us all know these updates.

Craig
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From: Klaus Daube <frame at daube.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, February 1, 2017 2:44 AM
To: Craig Ede; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: [Framers] new framemaker release

On 31 Jan 2017 at 17:37, Craig Ede wrote:

> I'm hoping to hear something about the new TCS 2017 and FrameMaker
> 2017 releases that are available today from those who have had a
> chance to see and use them.

Craig,

What's good in my opinion (I'm an oldfashioned unstructured user):
- Project manager (a window like the book window, but you can place all your assets).
- Support for high res monitors
- Console pod rather than the old console window which could hold only about
- Welcome screen is full app window size and is customisable
- Enhancements for responsive HTML5, such as search autocomplete
- Location of modal pods is now remembered.
- Auto-spell-check starts check after typing the first non-word letter, thus not
  'squiggle' an incomplete word during typing.
- Smart filters in drop-down boxes with partial typing analogous to the smart
catalogues.

What's hard for me to digest:
- gray icons again! Main reason "to be in line with other Adobe products"...
- Due to reshuffling the menus ESC shortcuts do not match the menu location.
- Many long lasting bugs have not been addressed (for example:
  . Impossibilty to create a very wide pdf;
  . Quotation marks misinterpreted in spell checking;
  . Shrink wrapped anchored frame loose property at PDF creation;
  . Run around contour for other than TIFF not correct.

There are also bugs introduced with the new version. IMHO the release date 'was
broken over the knee' (as we say in German). Many bug fixes are postponed to the
first dot-release some quarter after the release.

As said: this is my personal view.
Klaus
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