RE: FrameMaker Server 7: What is it?

["Peter Ring" <pri@xxxxxx>]

It has always been possible to use FrameMaker as a batch mode composition
engine. I would not expect a FrameMaker7+XML server license to provide
anything technically different from the desktop license. The difference is
that you must now obtain the server license if you want to exploit FM's
batch mode composition features to any substantial degree.

Fair enough, IMHO; you can now have you writers use any ol' XML editor and
need only one FM server license for page composition. If you can't live with
the server price tag, investigate the price of batch composition systems
with similar features, and then go investigate open source tools. For
DocBook and TEI, it's quite feasible to render XML to PDF through a chain of
open source tools, provided you understand a bit of the technologies
involved.

kind regards
Peter Ring

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-framers@omsys.com [mailto:owner-framers@omsys.com]On Behalf
Of Jason Aiken
Sent: 23. april 2002 22:51
To: framers@omsys.com
Subject: Re: FrameMaker Server 7: What is it?


Rampant speculation: I have no more knowledge than anyone else who has read
the brochure.

I would speculate that this is a FrameMaker flavor of a server-based
composition engine for *ML processing. Documentation departments might use
such a server-based model to provide consistent output using a heavy-duty
Frame-based composition engine. Adobe might sell X number of licenses
limiting the use of Frame-server to X users at any one time. (X would
represent a fraction of the department.)

Meanwhile, everyone in the department could use vanilla Frame to locally
edit information in a server-based controlled-database environment. When
necessary, Frame-server kicks in to provide necessary document control, *ML
composition, or other server-based features (I forget what the brochure says
it all provides).

Again, I have no idea. I'd be interested in hearing more about the Frame
Server capabilities myself and where my speculations above are wrong.

Always looking to use hyphens where-ever possible,
Jason

>>> "Nagai, Paul" <pnagai@inovant.com> 04/23/02 03:10PM >>>

Has anyone been able to figure out what this actually is? Maybe someone with
an NDA that's now expired? I've read the docs on the Adobe site, but can't
really quite make out what thing(s) it does.

Please feel free to respond on or off list. I'll summarize after a couple of
days ...
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Paul Nagai
Inovant, A Visa Solutions Company
510-864-8215
pnagai@visa.com


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