{"id":230,"date":"2004-03-26T08:35:45","date_gmt":"2004-03-26T13:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/but_im_not_sure_about_frannie"},"modified":"2004-03-26T08:35:45","modified_gmt":"2004-03-26T13:35:45","slug":"but_im_not_sure_about_frannie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2004\/03\/but_im_not_sure_about_frannie.html","title":{"rendered":"But I&#8217;m Not Sure About Frannie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bad news: Adobe has <a href=\"http:\/\/maccentral.macworld.com\/news\/2004\/03\/23\/framemaker\/index.php?redirect=1080288023000\">killed FrameMaker for MacOS<\/a>. I can assure you that the MacOS FrameMaker user community is outraged.  Well&#8230; okay, I can only really assure you that half the MacOS FrameMaker user community is outraged.  The other half consists of Francine Kopecki, a 53-year-old contract technical writer in Lansing, Michigan.  Not exactly sure what Frannie thinks, but at least <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> plenty annoyed.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the writing was on the wall, so there&#8217;s no point in being too upset.  Some people speculate that if Adobe had gotten around to porting FrameMaker to OS X, it might have done a little better in the marketplace.  I can certainly say that <em>I<\/em> would have snapped up an OS X version, but again, I can&#8217;t speak for Frannie.  Besides, FrameMaker would have just looked weird in OS X. Can you imagine taking that horrible CDE-inspired interface and spraying on a light coat of Aqua?  Perhaps it&#8217;s best that Adobe never unleashed that monstrosity on the unsuspecting public. <\/p>\n<p>The only upside from all this has been amusing flood of Recommendations For FrameMaker Replacements From People Who Have Never In Their Lives Actually Used FrameMaker.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/indesign\/main.html\">InDesign<\/a>?  <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice<\/a><\/em>?  Stop, you&#8217;re killing me!  <\/p>\n<p>Well, at least we can all take comfort in the fact that Adobe&#8217;s development efforts for FrameMaker are abysmally slow.  It will probably be <em>years<\/em> before they manage to crank out FrameMaker 8.0, and the serious backwards-compatibility issues start in earnest.  Huzzah for lack of competition!  Still, unlike Adobe, I can&#8217;t rest on my laurels.  Even though the day of FrameMaker 8.0 is probably far off, it&#8217;s important to start spewing a thick cloud of FUD at work <em>now<\/em>, well before my company decides to upgrade. &#8220;Did you hear?  Adobe&#8217;s using a new kind of shrinkwrap that&#8217;s highly teratogenic.&#8221;  My luck, they&#8217;ll just make me open the box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can assure you that the MacOS FrameMaker user community is outraged.  Well&#8230; okay, I can only really assure you that half the MacOS FrameMaker user community is outraged.  The other half consists of Francine Kopecki, a 53-year-old contract technical writer in Lansing, Michigan.  Not exactly sure what Frannie thinks, but at least <em>I&#8217;m<\/em> plenty annoyed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}