RE: Adobe Certified Newsletter -- notice about FrameMaker

[waynefb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

It's more than just "word is"... Apple states in developer documentation:

"What Can Be Translated?
Rosetta is designed to translate currently shipping applications that run on a PowerPC with a G3 processor and that are built for Mac OS X. That includes CFM as well as MachO PowerPC applications.

Rosetta does not run the following:

Applications built for any version of the Mac OS earlier than Mac OS X ?that means Mac OS 9, Mac OS 8, Mac OS 7, and so forth
The Classic environment
Code written specifically for AltiVec
Code that inserts preferences in the System Preferences pane
Applications that require a G4 or G5 processor
Applications that depend on one or more kernel extensions
Kernel extensions
Java applications with JNI libraries
Java applets in applications that Rosetta can translate. That means a web browser that Rosetta can run translated will not be able to load Java applets."

I don't hold much hope for Adobe porting FrameMaker (although it should be easier), and although I have multiple computers running both Windows and Mac OS X, I rarely turn on the Windows computers and still use FrameMaker on the Mac as much as possible. But Adobe's decision wasn't soley about Framemamker, if you look at why Apple has the "i-apps" (iMovie, iDVD, etc.), you'll see Adobe choose to abandon the Apple platform (this is covered in many older news stories, and confirmed by Steve Jobs). I keep wondering what fate Adobe has in store for many of the Macromedia products once the transition is complete. Freehand, is probably toast (on both platforms), and I expect Adobe to continue trimming their offerings to the Mac community. Of course the irony in all this mess, is they continue to wonder why the Mac community won't buy their limited offerings. I just really wish there was a good replacement for what FrameMaker does, because once the move to Intel chips happens next y!
 ear, it will only be a matter of time before I have to replace my computers and then Framemaker is toast as well (at least in my book).

Wayne

-----Original Message-----
From: "Stevens, Ananda (GE Healthcare)" <Karen.Stevens@xxxxxx>

Actually, at this point I have slightly more hope for Frame on Mac OS X
than I've had in years. Apple's decision to go with Intel chips should
make cross-compiling somewhat easier.  

However, if Adobe does NOT do a cross-compile of whatever current
version of FrameMaker exists when Apple switches to Intel, then Frame on
OS X will be not only dead, but buried. Word is you won't be able to run
Classic on an Intel chip. 

--Ananda




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