[Framers] Stefan wanted to know why so many of us Adobe users "feel" the way we do about Adobe

[Steve Rickaby]

At 16:55 -0600 12/10/21, <tammyvb at spectrumwritingllc.com> wrote:

>I can give details if interested, but I just wanted to chime in to the
>thread from a few weeks ago, where someone stated that they feel that Adobe
>hates their customers. . .

I think that was me.

Long time past, I took a great many textbooks directly to press using FrameMaker and PDF as a pre-press format. Problems were few and solvable, and the only time I had to have recourse to FrameMaker support was in 1997, when an author, who had written his ms in Frame, had managed to create massive equations that would not 'fold'. These jobs included more than one using structure FrameMaker.

All that was in FrameMaker version 7. Judging by what I read here, things don't seem to have improved much since Adobe hived FrameMaker off to India.

At 19:43 +0000 13/10/21, nuhDEEN wrote:

>However, the effort and expense to maintain the FM might be better spent on developing a completely new underlying software design that seems to work the same from a user's point-of-view

I tend to agree: all software eventually 'dies' as technology moves on. Look at Interleaf, for example. But with the cost and effort required to rewrite FrameMaker from scratch, including structure support, I don't see it happening. In theory, though, it can be done incrementally, using code refactoring.

There is a maybe bright light on the horizon for us old folk. I read that Cobol programmers can command astronomical fees these days to keep 'essential' banking software alive. Just an idea... :-)

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Steve