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Subject:Re: OK, Frame's the obvious choice f From:Richard Lippincott <rlippinc -at- BEV -dot- ETN -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 19 Jan 1995 16:37:34 EST
Debby Moller said:
>In his negative run-down of FrameMaker (Windows), Patrick Brian O'Connell
>didn't mention the worst bummer of all, namely, that the machine crashes when
>you "page" through graphic-heavy files. The only way (I can find) to avoid this
>is to turn off view of graphics, which is a pain.
>My local FM dealer claims they have never heard of this problem before (natch).
Then obviously, you must have been talking to them at the exact same time I was
talking to them, because they hadn't heard of it when I mentioned it, either.
Surely they wouldn't have fibbed about that.
(My "favorite" is still when it crashes while you're on a page with a referenced
graphic. I've seen Frame reach into the -reference- file, in another directory,
and obliterate the file. I'm not kidding. Frame has assured me, of course, that
this is quite impossible, even though it happened to me half a dozen or so times
last spring.)
Rick Lippincott
Eaton Semiconductor
Beverly, MA
rlippinc -at- bev -dot- etn -dot- com
