Re: Adobe Certified Newsletter -- notice about FrameMaker

[Bill Briggs <web@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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