So much for Adobe knowing about graphics.īut the biggest issue is to do with being able to easily integrate multiple sources, including manually authored text, diagrams, UML diagrams from tools, tool-generated model / API documentation, bibliographies and so on. I spent some months trying to convince Adobe to look at this problem, to no avail.
XMLMIND DITA EDITOR PERSONAL MAC OSX
It isn’t available on Mac OSX or Linux.Īmazingly, the latest version (12) doesn’t even display properly on a modern hi-res laptop screen (Dell XPS) – like Adobe Acrobat, if you have a modern laptop with a slightly less modern second screen attached, the menus and UI in general is a complete mess. It does DITA / XML, but many in the technical development world are losing interest in XML (I’ve always loathed it as one of IT’s worst invention, so no personal pain there).
Bringing new users on-board means non-trivial training. It did a pretty good job of multi-channel publishing, at least to PDF and HTML, using WebWorks (now ePublisher), and was unbeatable for control over fonts, layout, cross references, and most other details of publishing. Thousands of software and engineering companies around the world used it to publish manuals. The IMIA yearbook was historically published using it. It was used by Sun Microsystems, IBM, and still I believe, HP for their technical publishing. For most of this period it was the unbeatable desk top publishing solution for ‘serious’ documents and books (as opposed to magazine articles and the like). I started using it at version 2, sometime around 1990, and finished with it a few months ago. I am probably one of the longest time users of Adobe FrameMaker in the world.
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