Re: Adobe Certified Newsletter -- notice about FrameMaker

[Larry Kollar <Larry.Kollar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I have done doc development for Apple for a year, and
> the reasoning I heard from the old timers was a bit
> less financial.

I don't suppose you can give us any hints as to what
one of the largest Mac Frame customers has in mind
for a migration strategy? ;-)

> I understood that a big part of the reasoning was
> Apple's decision to enter the PDF generation market,
> which takes Adobe away from being the only player in
> the field.  Adobe is simply punishing Apple by taking
> away (reworking a relatively underperforming product,
> i.e.,) Frame from Apple's PDF-native platform (OSX). 

Back in the day, I floated a similar idea, labelling it
silly speculation... and got an immediate denial from
Dov anyway.

Adobe is by far not the only PDF player; there are lots
of third-party utilities out there. Apple is just one
of the most noticeable non-Adobe PDF makers (I'd sure
like to see Preview turn into PDF Editor though!). There
are also Free apps like Ghostscript, and doesn't Weird
have built-in PDF generation as well?


Getting back to the topic of Frame's future... I find
it interesting that Adobe would break their code of
silence about product development, to the point where
they preannounce an announcement six months ahead of
time. If I didn't know better, I'd think they're
actually feeling some heat from their customers.

--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc


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