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("Take the right tool for your job", they used to say.)
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PDF generation has several problems with color matching and line thickness. Unsophisticated works will probably not need them - I just happen to need them rather often, for various kinds of technical symbols. Supplied Unicode characters are way less than those coming as standard on the Mac. Only, it seems to have been programmed on a DOS system, and looks (and acts) as an alien entity in Windows. Inserting Unicode characters is done through a floating window that tries to simulate the Character Set window on the Mac.
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Someone suggested me to use the wonderful Alt+ASCII numeric code combination. I had to modify the "wincmds.cfg" keyboard configuration file to add just some of the basic ones. In Windows, you only have the Alt Gr key for alternative characters, and there are only a few of them given as standard. On the Mac, you use a combination of Option, or Option-Shift plus a character. Inserting diacritical marks is a hassle.
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For example, assigning the "As is" attribute to all parameters in a format search dialog box can only be done with an arcane key combination (Shift-F8) there is still no way to add a colored background to a paragraph, or to put an image under it file backups are saved in the same directory as the original file, generating confusion and it seems that typographic quotes are only supported in the English format (at least, I cannot find a way to set them in the German format, nor in the Italian academic «square» format).īut the worse problems are due to running on the Windows platform, not the program itself. However, some old problems are still there. And there are several refinements here and there that makes it, again, the well-conceived tech writing tool it has always been. Hierarchical books (sort of Nisus or Mellel's outliner, or Scrivener's Binder) are something I've desired for a long time. The new user interface is well conceived and can actually save time. It could give Quark a run for its money if marketed the right way.Īfter more than one month using FrameMaker 9 under Windows XP, I'm more and more convinced this is the wrong platform on which to use this otherwise excellent program.įrameMaker 9 greatly improves on the old versions. And InDesign is basically a tarted-up version of PageMaker, lest we forget.īut we are leaving FM 7.0 behind, and I really can't see switching to Windows for the dubious benefit of just running FM.Īgain, if anyone knows a decent program for single source publishing that will run on Mac/Windows, please let me know.Īdobe, you really don't know what you have with FrameMaker. I think FM, with a few tweaks and better graphic placement, could kick InDesign's ass.
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If there is one for the Mac OS, please let me know.
I use fm to layout the print, and it just works great! No other program that I know of will allow you to create a book, then gather separate files into the book and be able to paginate all of them at once, create indexes and table of contents, markers for automatic section naming, etc. We are now switching from a complicated process where we takes MS Word files and use FM to convert them to xml, then run PERL scripts on the xml to create html files, and also create fm files so we basically have a single-source web/print process. I'm late to the party, but I would love FM for OSX. (Does anybody know where to find anything on the new version of (f)Word?) But drastic change on the interface and nothing substantive in the functionality (like a Mac version, duh!) is not going to win much applause here. Even the graphic designer I was working with said she didn't like the new interface for the InDesign upgrade.
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They should have spent a fraction of the effort they did enhancing the interface to work like all the other new apps to instead port the app to Mac OS X.
To me, the interface "enhancements" get in the way and do things automatically "for" me like I hate. Well, the Apple version of the interface allowed many of those windows to display under (not always remain on top and get in the way of your working document). When I watched the Adobe "online tutorial" a month ago, the Adobe spokesman went on and on about how cool the new interface is, how it solves all the problems the Windows-centric geeks were complaining about. Just tried the new version of Frame 9 for a week at a contract job.
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