Re: Suspected Gray-Market Version of FM+SGML V5.5.6

[Grant <rowan@xxxxxxxx>]

At 03:48 AM 5/28/99 -0700, Dan Emory wrote:
>I've been working at a client's facility on NT platforms where
FM+SGML 5.5.6
>is installed. These licenses were purchased recently from one of
Adobe's
>major Premium VAR resellers. I've noticed the following anomalies:
>
>1. When you create a new document by clicking the Portrait button, a
>document with with the A4 page size is created. 
>2. All of the Standard Templates supplied with FM+SGML have the A4
page size.
>
>3. When opening an ACII text file, The default text encoding option
is an
>Asian language option. There is nothing in the Customizing
FrameMaker
>on-line document that describes any way to change it.
>
>4. I opened the Adobe Type Manager that was installed during FM+SGML
>installation. The initial screen that appears is the one produced
the first
>time ATM is opened. The Installed ATM Fonts listbox is empty. Also,
the
>PSFONTS directory is empty. The only postscript fonts on the
platform are
>those in the Distiller Fonts directory, which contains only about 6
fonts.
>When attempting to add these fonts to ATM, a warning appears
declaring that
>they cannot be added.
>
>5. In the Paragraph and Character designers, the default language
option is
>UK English. There is nothing in the Customizing FrameMaker on-line
document
>that describes any way to change change the default option.
>
>6. The NOT FOR EXPORT label appears on the box, but the bar-code on
the box
>is suspiciously smudged so that it cannot be read.
> 
>The combination of all these anomalies has the distinct odor of a
>gray-market version of FM+SGML obtained from some Asian or European
>reseller, and then sold by a US VAR in violation of the restriction
on
>selling versions intended for overseas markets to US licencees.
>
>Has anyone else in the US found these same or similar anomalies in
an
>installed version of FrameMaker or FM+SGML obtained from an An Adobe
U.S
>reseller? If so, please post a reply. 

I don't know about point 6, but the other things can happen if the
computer is set up for International English, or a non-US language.

I suspect that you may well be right.

Grant

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