Oh, this is not a good idea
[Update: According to Aseem, comments are back on and turning them off was unintentional.]
In an earlier post, I linked to a blog posting from the Adobe Product Manager for FrameMaker, who requested product suggestions via meetings and email. But, unsurprisingly, the requests went into the comments. And most of the commenters are asking for a Mac version. And now we have this (from a comment on my post):
It appears the ability to comment on that post has been turned off. If I had been allowed to comment, here is what I would have written.
[another request for Mac support with a detailed recommendation on how to do it]
I suppose that it’s possible that Adobe’s blog system limits each entry to 16 comments?
<crickets>
Probably not.
I don’t think that a flood of “gimme back my Mac” was what Aseem was looking for. (Hi, Aseem!)
Blogs are a two-way conversation. Sometimes, the person you’re talking with changes the subject. And hitting the mute button is really not the best way to deal with that.
[I will now await a flood of comments that will make me eat my words.]
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Aseem
Hi Sarah…
Switching off the comments was not intentianal. I just checked, the comments have been turned on again…
So comment away 🙂
John Rankin
Aseem has reaffirmed that Framemaker for Mac will remain dead and look at all the other wonderful Adobe products available for the Mac. See http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2007/02/thank_you_for_the_overwhelming.html although this does not make a recommendation as to which wonderful product one is supposed to use instead of FrameMaker.
Looks as if we’ll have to switch to Lyx/LaTeX — grrr. Aseem hints that perhaps Adobe might, just possibly, maybe, we can’t promise anything and don’t hold your breath or me to it, look at a way to run Windows FrameMaker on a Mac — I assume he means using Crossover Mac, as running Windows on a Mac kind of misses the point.
I remain incurably optimistic that reason will prevail and FrameMaker for OS X will one day rise from the grave. You can’t keep a good corpse down.