{"id":745,"date":"2004-01-05T18:08:16","date_gmt":"2004-01-05T23:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=745"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"adobes_graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/05\/adobes_graveyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe&rsquo;s Graveyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtpbylee.com\/blog\/archives\/2004_01.html#522\">PageMaker finally is dead<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/framemaker\/main.html\">FrameMaker<\/a>, though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serve.com\/bonzai\/monty\/films\/MontyPythonandtheHolyGrail\">not dead<\/a>, seems to be even closer than usual. The latest version isn&rsquo;t very impressive and doesn&rsquo;t run on Macs. Thankfully, FrameMaker, which has always been reliable, still works in Classic with the same old redraw bugs and ancient interface.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nThe reason I care about FrameMaker is not so much that I like it, as that I like what it can do. Though there are several alternatives on Windows, I know of no equivalent Mac programs. Number one on my list of FrameMaker likes is that it can create PDFs with clickable links, bookmarks, and other meta-data. Microsoft Word is probably the closest tool to FrameMaker on the Mac, but, unlike its Windows counterpart, it cannot create these rich PDFs. As a result, some of TidBITS&rsquo;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tidbits.com\/takecontrol\/\">Take Control<\/a> eBooks are created using Word on Windows; the rest have their PDF richness added <em>by hand<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n\n<p>\nPanther improved Preview by leaps and bounds, which is especially fortunate given the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/27\/adobe_reader.html\">state of Adobe Reader<\/a> (see also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macjournals.com\/mdj\/\">MDJ 2003.12.31<\/a>). But there is much more to be done. On the viewing side, Preview can&rsquo;t handle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irs.gov\/formspubs\/index.html\">PDF forms<\/a> or select text in columns. On the creation side, Mac OS X makes it easy to create PDFs&mdash;but lowest common denominator ones. Save a Web page with Safari, and all the links die.\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PageMaker finally is dead, and FrameMaker, though not dead, seems to be even closer than usual. The latest version isn&rsquo;t very impressive and doesn&rsquo;t run on Macs. Thankfully, FrameMaker, which has always been reliable, still works in Classic with the same old redraw bugs and ancient interface. The reason I care about FrameMaker is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}