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I was a devoted FrameMaker user until Adobe killed the Mac product. I used to have to do fairly complicated legal documents, and it was worth every penny. Plus,
by Finnucane 11y ago
I was a devoted FrameMaker user until Adobe killed the Mac product. I used to have to do fairly complicated legal documents, and it was worth every penny. Plus, it was a very good word processor--you never had to leave the program to edit text. So I used it for everything I had to write.
A book like this could have been handled fairly easily in FrameMaker, but sadly Adobe has decided to position in it to be only for large enterprise shops running Windows. They're probably (rightfully) afraid it would cannabalize InDesign sales if they made it more accessible.
- reacweb 11y agoI have used it in 1992 on Sun stations. It was a delight. I am pretty sure it would gain a lot of attraction if they open sourced it.
- shepard 11y agoHm. I never heard of FrameMaker before, but their 2015 release is available at $29.99/month, which is hardly "positioned only for large enterprises".
- Finnucane 11y agoYeah, just out of curiosity I looked at what the current deal was, and that might almost be reasonable if a) I were still going to be using it every day and b) there were still a Mac/Linux version. I wouldn't do a subscription deal it just for personal use, but that's a different issue. But 'positioning' is partly a marketing thing. Not having a Mac version clearly separates the product from Indesign for a lot of users.