[Framers] Suddenly not working FM functionality? - also, a shout-out to Tech Support for being so responsive!!!!

[Robert Lauriston]

FrameMaker's original job was page layout.

The only reason it didn't go the way of Ventura Publisher and
PageMaker is that it evolved into an extensible tech docs platform.
Some companies (notably Boeing) built large systems around it. Others
used add-ons to turn it into a single-source tool.

I think it's behind the competition in every way except for the editor
giving you a good WYSIWYG preview of PDF / print output and getting
professional-looking PDF / print output that meets your company
standards without having to invest a lot of time in tweaking CSS and
pagination rules.

On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Peter Gold <peter at petergold.photography> wrote:
> The first time I ever saw FM, it was on a UNIX system, probably FM 2 or
> earlier. The tech writer showing it off blew my mind by using FM's built-in
> screen capture to shoot the screen and bring in the image, without missing
> a beat in the content-creation process. IIRC, there was an option to copy
> or import the captured image. So, we've seen generations and decades of
> regression and feature loss, yet we stick with Ol' Faithful because it does
> its basic job so well. ...