For some years I have been monitoring various user groups to do with SGML and XML via the newsgroups comp.text.sgml & comp.text.xml. In the same area of newsgroups there is comp.text.frame where structured and non-structured FrameMaker discussions take place.Again and again over the years there have been comments along the lines of "Where is FrameMaker going?” There have been doom and gloom postings announcing 'sources' saying that there will be no further development, closely followed by those saying that 'they have heard' that development is still going on. For the last couple of years I have had more than a passing interest in this discussion because the company that I work for has structured FrameMaker applications to support various Specifications (including S1000D).
It was in one of these groups that I spotted a link to FrameMaker 2005 Chautauqua™ taking place in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA (7th to 9th November). I notice that there are several addresses by Adobe staff including the keynote address by Karl Matthews entitled "The Future of Adobe FrameMaker: 7.1 and Beyond". Is this where they are going to announce full support for XML Schemas?
As part of my general philosophy mentioned in the first posting in this Blog "The Start of a Conversation about S1000D" I would be interested in hearing the views of others involved in the use and development of FrameMaker.
P.S. Perhaps more in keeping with the context of this Blog is the paper being given by Julian Murfitt of Mekon on the third day called "S1000D Introduction" which will provide a good high level briefing on S1000D and some of the implications of implementation. More information on this to follow soon.
6 comments:
This seems like a publicity for a company that is losing customers faster than they can swim upstream..everyone knows FRAME IS DEAD
Alas, Adobe FrameMaker is not dead. In fact, it's more than alive and well as Adobe just released a new version of the popular authoring and publishing tool this morning!
See http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/newfeatures.html for details.
Yes, another lame attempt: 7.2
This is just another attempt to "calm" users who are leaving the software and going to something else.
Adobe can care less about FRAME users, even FRAME users know that.
I think Frame is not the most appropriate software to quickly create SGML files.
It is not a native XML/SGML editor.
The main advantage of Frame is not to scare off the users that did use classic editor in the past. It provides a printout feature whilst others editors required add-in software.
I only use Frame to edit huge documents via the book funtion whereas Word shows its limits.
I use Epcedit to edit XML/SGML files against different catalog DTD.
I tried Oxygen, Epic, Xmetal, altova, etc.
Each of them provides some interests according to your writing/publishing needs.
Hy everybody!
You are discussing framemaker and S1000D.
What do you think about using S1000D version 4 and framemaker 9.
Is this possible? Do I need a application pack from adobe? Is it allready available for Framemaker 9 Any experiences?
Cheers,
Philipp
Philip
In response to your comment you may be interested to note two things.
First FrameMaker is not Dead and despite what Scott said earlier in this thread (yes in 2005) development is still ongoing, in fact FrameMaker 9 has been released.
Second you may be interested to note that the company that I work for (Mekon in the UK) has a well established 'Plug In' for FrameMaker which works with S1000D Issue 1.6 to Issue 3. The version that works with Issue 4 should be out before the end of this year (it is in testing right now).
Please note that I do not normally do commercials but there does seem to be a lot of rubbish information being put out there - often people with vested interests or who do not actually know what is going on.
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