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Article #23533Re: FrameMaker 7.x/8 Feature Requests
From: Ronald C F Antony
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:29
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:29
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There's three things I want to see, finally: a) WYSIWYG: anyone who's ever used FM under NeXTSTEP with DisplayPostScript and who as seen the razor-sharp rendering of EPS, graphics, Type1 type, etc. just has a puke-reflex each time he must use a product that is now five major releases more advanced and still can't do what it could do with release 2 under NeXTSTEP. b) Mac OS X native, with full support of EPS and PDF display. No lousy preview bitmap junk, please! c) Finally start selling FM as a powerful word processor. I always used, and continue to use FM as a better replacement for MS-Word, less so as a publishing system. The text processing in FM runs circles around what MS-Word can do, and the clear separation between content and representation is what any logically thinking writer wants. With a few style sheets this can be a screewriting package, a scientific word processor, a tool to enforce Corporate Identity, by allowing secretaries to only write business documents in pre-defined FM templates, etc. One simply doesn't have to be professionally in the publishing business to have good use for this package, and Adobe's marketing totally neglects this.
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