Re: FrameMaker Community Service

["Loren R. Needles" <lrn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis:
Its curious that you complain on this list about Adobe not rising to your occasion when you should be first sharing your opinions and techniques with real Frame Users in the first place.  
Lrn


At 07:46 A -0400 06.07.99, Hays, Dennis   wrote:
>There has been some speculation on these forums regarding both the future of
>FrameMaker and the public relations (both good and bad) of Adobe as to the
>FrameMaker product. I wish to add the following to the latter subject and
>hopefully somewhat objectively.
>
>A few weeks ago, I contacted Tamis Nordling, Editor of Adobe Magazine,
>regarding a query for an article that I wrote (subject: Creating
>context-sensitive Help direct from FrameMaker without any third-party
>applications). Tamis responded quite quickly and, after a couple of emails,
>decided to pass on the article because of the perceived low readership by
>FrameMaker users compared with the Frame community as a whole. However, he
>did offer to contact other publishing groups within Adobe to see if there
>was any interest on their part---the web publishing group specifically.
>There has been no response from them as of this writing.
>
>I also emailed Mark and told him about the article. The last email from him
>was a suggestion that Adobe use this article as a case study. However, there
>was no direct offer from Mark or Adobe regarding this article in any form.
>
>I'd thought that there would be some kind of demand for an article that
>details the process of creating context-sensitive help items in FrameMaker
>that can be inserted into an application efficiently. 
>
>Dennis
>
>Dennis Hays
>CSMS Redesign Team
>(518) 473-7362
>mailto:KK7777@dfa.state.ny.us
>
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