Monthly Archives: June 2007

Adobe: Framemaker not a “core product” but will live on anyway

Shantanu Narayen on Adobe’s Future Direction: Product Strategy for the Next Generation of the Web
Narayen is president and COO of Adobe, and spoke to the Wharton School’s Knowledge@Wharton newsletter about the company’s long-term product plans. In passing, they touched on the future of Framemaker, as the tool that addresses creators of book-length documents.

Knowledge@Wharton: In […]

Framemaker 8 Beta Test: Pre-release Program

https://prerelease.adobe.com/callout/default.html?callid=ABC91BEA2278462893A6E9D1F807F13B
Adobe is requesting users to join their pre-release program for the Framemaker 8 Beta. (Looks like Framemaker.next, as far as a new name, was just someone’s makin’ stuff up.)

FrameMaker 8 Prerelease Program

Please click on the link below to register and apply for participation in the FrameMaker 8 Prerelease program.
Please Note: You would be required to submit […]

Life After Framemaker: XML.Com reviews XMLMind for Mac Users

A good look at XMLMind, a pure XML-oriented editor in Java that’s even available in a free edition. Suitable for editing small and large XML documents. The article is written from the perspective of a Mac users, since the Macintosh OS/X crowd has no real way to run Framemaker at all.  WYSYWIG support, DocBook-friendliness, […]

Re: Changing background color on imported JPG

<posted & mailed>
I found my own solution. I converted the .jpg to .tif using xv and the .tif
renders correctly in FrameMaker. Doesn’t explain the .jpg problem though!
Larry

Changing background color on imported JPG

I have just imported a graphic (logo) .jpg file which has a white background
when viewed in many image viewers (xv, gimp, gthumb, …). When I import it
into FrameMaker 5.5.6, the background color becomes a pale green.
I have imported thousands of JPGs over the years, but I cannot recall ever
seeing this effect.

NEWS FROM MADCAP SOFTWARE: Road Show, Beta and Alchemy partnership

There’s stuff here like the Feedback Server that sounds like nothing Adobe has to offer. I think they’re really going after a comprehensive solution to a lot of doc and help authoring problems all at once… If Madcap can deliver, and their product isn’t obscenely expensive, they should really have legs. The trick here […]