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RE: FrameMaker's Future

I can see the use of XML for publishing highly repetitive information, such as a catalog (repetitive in formatting, not content). I fail to see how it would help with somewhat more creative documents, such as a large software manual, a technical standard and so forth.

If I wanted to do something like that I'd use a database, in fact I already do. FileMaker is my choice. I can output nicely formatted pages designed for print, or reams of html.

But if I was writing a book (which I might do) or thousand-page long technical standards (which I do) or a newsletter (which I also do) I don't think I'd want to do it in XML!

- David Crowe



At 11:28 AM -0600 1/13/05, Stevens, Ananda \(GE Healthcare\) wrote:
Apple has used FrameMaker for years. There has been noise about a possible Apple purchase of Frame, but I don't see that happening -- I suspect it is more wishful thinking on the part of many.

 Those who think they can somehow revive FrameMaker
 support for the Mac are living in a dreamworld,

Dream different. ;-)

It will be very, very interesting to see what Pages's capabilities are. I doubt that Pages 1.0 will be close to what Frame users would want to switch to, but I would not be surprised if Apple is thinking about using that as a step towards a Frame replacement.


I just took a look at ArborText's web site. This sounds like the product that FrameMaker could have (and should have) been by now: a write-once, publish-anywhere system.


K. Ananda Stevens
GE Healthcare

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