Re: Linux software on YDL - FrameMaker 5.5.6 beta


Subject: Re: Linux software on YDL - FrameMaker 5.5.6 beta
From: pete (pete@linuxfreemail.com)
Date: Tue Nov 20 2001 - 11:51:06 MST


If Framemaker and Linux are really both important to you, have you
considered running RedHat under VirtualPC, and running Framemaker there?
(not a great option, I suppose, but probably worth considering.)

- pete -
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> From: dano <dano@well.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 21:05:15 -0800
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: Linux software on YDL - FrameMaker 5.5.6 beta
>
> At 8:15 PM -0500 on 11/19/01, nathan r. hruby wrote:
>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Nathan A. McQuillen wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, they released an x86 RedHat binary. To my knowledge they never
>>> released the source code (Adobe? Open their code? Hehehhh...), so that's
>>> pretty much that, unless you wanted to try to run it in emulation... :P
>>>
>>
>> No, the source was never released and the port was dropped offically by
>> Adobe claiming lack of intrest by the Linux community. It perhaps would
>> have fared better if they had used a non Tk interface (Qt or GTK+) and the
>> damn thing didn't cost so much.
>>
>> I still don't get the point of spending all that cash for an SGML editor.
>> Perhaps someone can enlighten me as to the benifts of FrameMaker?
>
> The best desktop publisher in computing. Quark and PageMaker can do
> magazines and catalogs, but for books or big complex projects, Frame
> is the way to go. Virtually all technical writing (including computer
> manuals) is done in Frame (aka Framemaker).
>
> Like most of their products, Adobe bought Frame as an already mature
> but little-known product. Unlike most of the products they bought
> though, this one - Frame - came from unix originally. It actually ran
> primarily on unix (Irix iirc) and secondarily Mac when it was owned
> by Frame; Abode ported it to Windows.
>
> Many people would like to see it on linux (including this writer),
> but waiting for Adobe to port to linux is like waiting for Microsoft
> to port to linux.
> --
> ===================================
> If the government wants us to obey the law,
> it should set a better example.
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