Structured Framemaker, FDK and XML Blog

This page shows the packaging for Framemaker 7.2 and Framemaker 8.
(oooh, pretty pictures!)

Framemaker 7.2 — very traditional. Pile of documents, little sprig of DNA, building on its predecessors, piling up documents, climbing towards some ever-richer future.
 
Framemaker 8.0 — more minimalist, radical, breaking with past tradition– also… boring? blurry? an indistinct product image? a murky […]

http://charlesjeter.com/2007/08/10/backlash-grows-from-high-cost-poor-quality-adobe-technical-support/
Seems there’s a groundswell of anger at Adobe over recent tech support policy changes, poor support etc.. Robohelp is the primary target of complaints in the recent diatribes, but frankly, Adobe’s always seemed a bit arrogant as a company and more interested in milking profit from customers than in helping them. (Witness the user-hostile […]

http://www.bluestream.com/products
Since Adobe has not chosen to turn Framemaker into a major-league structured content management solution, we thought we’d feature a few vendors who do this kind of product. This post is about Bluestream, a company that describes itself as follows:
Bluestream Database Software Corp. is the world leader in the XML database and XML content […]

http://www.fm4osx.org/
Framemaker obviously still has some fans who use Macs and would like (or need) a port of their document processing/production tool of choice to the OS/X platform. FM4OSX.org is sponsoring a petition to encourage Adobe to port Frame 8 to the Mac.
The FrameMaker for Mac OS X Petition was created to persuade Adobe to […]