RE: FrameMaker's Future

["John Sgammato" <jsgammato@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't suppose it helps any that Frame is buried deep in the Print section of Adobe's website - with not even a nod to its potential for single sourcing and all those other hot new technologies we read about in our journals. 
IMHO Frame will get merged with InDesign in a new product with a more Adobe-like interface, better online AND print capabilities, and a new marketing push. 
john

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Larry Kollar [mailto:Larry.Kollar@xxxxxxxxxx] 
	Sent: Thu 1/13/2005 11:24 AM 
	To: Free Framers List 
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	Subject: RE: FrameMaker's Future
	
	

	> "Finally, we experienced a 29% year-over-year decline in type and
	technical
	> publishing products, which includes our Adobe FrameMaker product, due to
	> overall economic weakness..."
	
	I wonder how much of that is economic weakness and how much is due to a
	fundamental shift away from publishing on paper. Frame (and Word, for that
	matter) is a very paper-centric program that has had some electronic
	publishing features bolted on over the years. It's really a tribute to
	Frame's versatility that it has remained as relevant as it has, despite a
	nearly nonexistent mindshare inside Adobe, for as long as it has.
	
	But now we're in a Catch-22: Frame isn't going to return to its glory days
	without a fundamental makeover that includes a more media-neutral look &
	feel, and Adobe isn't going to devote large resources to Frame without a
	surge in sales.
	
	--
	Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
	"Content creators are the engine that drives
	value in the information life cycle."
	    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc
	
	
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