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Re: Adobe Certified Newsletter -- notice about FrameMaker



This is the first time I've heard a reason that actually made sense to me. But Apple PDF generation is pedestrian. Serious users are going to get Acrobat for the job control, the complete support of the PDF specification, scriptability (complete with annoying bugs). I think Adobe may have exaggerated the damage that OS X would do in the Acrobat sales area. I've never made a PDF on OS X by any other means than distillation through Acrobat Distiller. Mind you I still use a Classic version of Distiller too. The sticker price of Acrobat it a bit much, and while I am elegible for academic pricing, I'll sit it out till I really have to upgrade.

- web

At 11:24 AM -0700 7/19/05, Abbas Zaidi wrote:
I have done doc development for Apple for a year, and
the reasoning I heard from the old timers was a bit
less financial.

I understood that a big part of the reasoning was
Apple's decision to enter the PDF generation market,
which takes Adobe away from being the only player in
the field.  Adobe is simply punishing Apple by taking
away (reworking a relatively underperforming product,
i.e.,) Frame from Apple's PDF-native platform (OSX).
Would you support a company that, instead of being
greatful for your continued loyalty, decides to
emulate (and thus infringe upon) your very bread and
butter?  Made sense to me when I heard it..

It would augur well for Adobe if they came back to the
MacTel platform, and made the skip of OSX only a PPC
generation skip. That says loads about foresight in
picking the right technology to skip.. just by virtue
of it having been such a well-timed and astute move..

Abbas
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--- Allen <soundbyte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:




 waynefb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
 > I just really wish there was a good replacement
 for what FrameMaker
 > does, because once the move to Intel chips happens
 next year, 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).

 I'm finding that many of the jobs I'm interviewing
 for want Word. I'm
 starting a short term contract at (big Internet
 company) and they want
 it all in Word. I mentioned the instability of the
 template in Word and
 the response was, "Yeah, but we need it in Word so
 it can be used in
 foreign countries."  I guess they never heard of
 RTF.

 But if FrameMaker is toast, what is everyone looking
 toward? None of the
 XML based stuff seems really usable. Is it back to
 LaTex?

> Allen

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