Anybody here have to work with structured FrameMaker?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

It is teh evil. Whatever demented Adobe software dudes came up with this Satanic lump of incomprehensible, Byzantine, insane software should be waterboarded, keelhauled, and forced to convert the entire Oxford English Dictionary into structured FrameMaker on an old Dell 486 using one finger and the screen of an iPod. And after that they can be torn apart by wolverines and fry in hell forever.

[Pierre.Suave]

1. LOL

I dont think you quite got your point across, maybe you had better use more descriptive, vivid language...

:P

[no name no slogan]

2. #1: it's from Adobe, so by it's very nature it will suck on some level

#2: it's FrameMaker, possibly the worst piece of software they ever created. And don't forget, these are the people that brought us Acrobat and PDF.
#3: there has to be a better way to do it, but nobody outside of Adobe is bothering to do it, because Adobe's got a lock on the market.

I'm terrified to see what they do to the old Macromedia stuff, once they really lay their hooks into it. :scared:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. But it's far, far more heinous than ordinary FrameMaker.

You can sort of figure out how to do some things with that, even though it's complicated and annoying. But structured FrameMaker was apparently designed by a committee of software designers, unemployed electrical engineers, meth addicts and serial killers, who got together one day, drank too much absinthe and decided to design a *real* killer app.

[leftyclimber]

3. I used it when I was a tech writer.

I think the developers were on some sort of mind-altering drug to think that program was a good idea. (The marketing people, OTOH, I'm assuming were in a perfectly unaltered state to be in agreement.)

Sorry to hear it's still awful. I do not have fond memories of FrameMaker. Nosiree.

[supernova]

5. I've used it just fine since 2000

Well, it was wonky when we first started usiing it. It would crash every five minutes because they launched it before it was ready. :silly:

I've used the structured view and never lost my place.

I prefer it to MS Word though, especially for large, multi-chapter manuals.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. I hate it.

Hate.