Re: Help!: Update Frame for Mac OSX; We Need Your Votes!

[Jeff Nailen <jeffnailen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/28/01 12:30 PM, "Ananda" <anandas@mediaone.net> wrote:

>> The bottom line, quite simply, is that WE ALREADY KNOW that
>> most Mac users, including Adobe's internal FrameMaker users
>> on the Mac, want a MacOS X "native" version of FrameMaker ASAP.
> 
> 
> The reason I posted my $.02 on the board was not _just_ to add another name
> to the list of people saying "I want FrameMaker on OS X".
> 
> Rather, my hope is that by getting FrameMaker on MacWorld's radar, we just
> might hear more about FrameMaker...
> - in MacWorld
> - in other Mac magazines
> - from Adobe, regarding what's happening with the product
> 
> Adobe would love to see the end of the "Frame is dead" rumor syndrome. We
> all would. But yet, Adobe does not market Frame with anything approaching
> aggression -- or even assertiveness! -- nor does Adobe do much to let
> current Frame users know that yes, indeed, development on Frame is
> continuing. That is the IMPRESSION that many Frame users have, even if it is
> not the reality. 
> 
> 
> <start anecdote>
> I was at an STC meeting where a woman was bemoaning her difficulty with
> getting an odd pagination scheme to work correctly in a 300+ page book. I
> asked how she had set up the numbering on the various master pages. She gave
> me a blank look: "Master pages? What are those?" She was using *Word*, and
> had never heard of FrameMaker. And yes, she did her work on a Mac -- she was
> using Office 98, I believe.
> 
> When I told her she should be using Frame, and why that would make her
> pagination issues trivial by comparison, she was interested. She asked me
> where she could find out more about Frame. The catch? It had to be from a
> NON-Adobe source, so she could show her manager that *someone other than the
> software manufacturer had good things to say about it*. And since her
> manager was in the Training group, a magazine from the STC wouldn't carry
> significant weight, either. With the exception of the STC's publications, I
> couldn't think of a single magazine that discussed FrameMaker.
> <end anecdote>
> 
> --Ananda
> anandas@mediaone.net
> 
> 
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Ananda,

My sentiments exactly.

Thanks,

Jeff


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