Re: FrameMaker 7.2 to 8 upgrade questions

[John Hedtke <john -at- hedtke -dot- com>]

I wrote a review of the Adobe Tech Comm Suite for in Multilingual 
Computing a couple months ago and I've been waiting until it came out 
to say anything so I wouldn't undercut the review.  (It's in the 
current issue if you care to read it.)

The gist of what I wrote was that the ATCS is a real bargain if you:
(a) Already know how to use FM & RH
(b) Want an incredible bargain on buying FM and even one of the other 
products in the box (RH, Adobe Acrobat, Captivate)

And under those circumstances, I recommend it.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you expect to buy the ATCS, FM, or RH7 
and expect to find documentation for any of the new localization 
features or good documentation in general.  (The documentation for 
FM8 is actually worse than FM7.2, something I didn't think you could 
do in a released product.)

It's distressing to me that such a good set of products have such 
consistently bad product documentation.

Yours truly,

John Hedtke
Author/Consultant/Contract Writer
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At 09:09 AM 3/13/2008, Meryl R. Cohen wrote:
>My company currently uses FM 7.2 in unstructured mode. We produce PDFs and
>also use Mif2Go in our doc to create XHTML and Eclipse Help. We also use a
>product called dzbatch in our build scripts to do some template imports,
>etc. We are considering moving to FM 8.0 given that we are adding FM copies
>anyway.
>
>I'm interested in what people think about FM 8 in general in comparison to
>FM 7.2.
>Also, if there are any gotchas to beware of.
>Finally, If there are any problems people have encountered when using FM 8
>with the other tools we use, that would be very important to know.
>
>Meryl



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