Thomas Michanek
2006-04-03 18:17:33 UTC
In November 2005, I went to the FrameMaker 2005 Chautauqua
conference in Raleigh, NC, USA, and met some of the folks
on "framers". Also, Adobe's FM Product Manager Karl Matthews
held a Keynote Presentation. He presented what was going on
in the world of publishing, authoring and FrameMaker, what
the future holds, and answered some questions. Among other
things, he commented on the user surveys performed by Adobe,
the platform support regarding Mac and Linux, and possible
coming feature additions.
Maybe you already know this, but I've made a transcript of
his one-hour presentation, together with the slide texts he
used. You can read or download the transcript as a PDF file
from the Bright Path Solutions website:
http://www.travelthepath.com/chauttranscript.html
In addition, a version of the actual PowerPoint presentation
with notes and comments from conference participants is also
available from the same web page.
Apart from these comments, I also talked to Karl Matthews
about the future of FM versus InDesign. He made it very clear
that these will continue to be two separate products, and there
are no plans to "merge" the products in any foreseeable future.
The Chautauqua conference will be held this year too. And a
result of the interaction between Adobe and the European FM
users at last year's conference is that an FM conference will
be held in England in September, thanks to Mekon UK, Pectora
and Bright Path Solutions. For more info on the FM conferences
during 2006, see http://www.travelthepath.com/conf2005.html
Regards,
___________________________________________
Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
Technical Communicator, Linkoping, Sweden
mailto:***@comhem.se
___________________________________________
conference in Raleigh, NC, USA, and met some of the folks
on "framers". Also, Adobe's FM Product Manager Karl Matthews
held a Keynote Presentation. He presented what was going on
in the world of publishing, authoring and FrameMaker, what
the future holds, and answered some questions. Among other
things, he commented on the user surveys performed by Adobe,
the platform support regarding Mac and Linux, and possible
coming feature additions.
Maybe you already know this, but I've made a transcript of
his one-hour presentation, together with the slide texts he
used. You can read or download the transcript as a PDF file
from the Bright Path Solutions website:
http://www.travelthepath.com/chauttranscript.html
In addition, a version of the actual PowerPoint presentation
with notes and comments from conference participants is also
available from the same web page.
Apart from these comments, I also talked to Karl Matthews
about the future of FM versus InDesign. He made it very clear
that these will continue to be two separate products, and there
are no plans to "merge" the products in any foreseeable future.
The Chautauqua conference will be held this year too. And a
result of the interaction between Adobe and the European FM
users at last year's conference is that an FM conference will
be held in England in September, thanks to Mekon UK, Pectora
and Bright Path Solutions. For more info on the FM conferences
during 2006, see http://www.travelthepath.com/conf2005.html
Regards,
___________________________________________
Thomas Michanek, FrameMaker/UNIX/MIF expert
Technical Communicator, Linkoping, Sweden
mailto:***@comhem.se
___________________________________________