Re: Adobe Rolls Out FrameMaker 6

["Dmitri Yunov" <yudmi@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Dan.
Agree.
If FrameMaker 6 based on CoolType engine like GoLive4/InDesign/Acrobat4 its supports Unicode.
If FM6 is old GDI/QDraw application no any right Unicode we'll found.


Dmitri Iounov
yudmi@star.spb.ru

Support/consulting for multilingual computing 
Multilingual font technology
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Dan Emory <danemory@primenet.com>
To: Dennis Hays <dhays@haysdesign.com>; <framers@omsys.com>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 5:54 PM
Subject: Re: Adobe Rolls Out FrameMaker 6


> No Unicode support!
> 
> I thoroughly looked at the What's New information for both FrameMaker and
> FrameMaker+SGML on the Adobe website. Nothing indicating that a full
> implementation of Unicode is there. I also did a search on the word Unicode
> for the entire website. Got 60 hits, none of which pertain to FrameMaker.
> 
> If 6.0 doesn't support Unicode better than 5.5.6, then the product isn't
> ready for prime time, and cannot produce XML that meets W3 requirements for
> the use of Unicode rather than entity references.
> 
> The lack of a full Unicode implementation also means the 6.0 product is not
> ready for prime time in the translation industry. There, Word 2000 will
> continue to eat Adobe's lunch.
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