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From: langz@asylum.SF.CA.US (Lang Zerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re:  Frame (1.0) spaces
Summary: even crippled, it's impressive
Message-ID: <7650@asylum.SF.CA.US>
Date: 16 Oct 89 19:34:00 GMT
References: <3592@frame.UUCP> <679@wet.UUCP>
Reply-To: langz@asylum.UUCP (Lang Zerner)
Organization: The Great Escape, Inc
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In article <679@wet.UUCP> epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott) writes:
>In article <3592@frame.UUCP> yyang@frame.com (Yeong Yang) writes:
>>The FrameMaker app in 1.0 release is a very decent beta demo copy and has
>>many powerful features.  Though one minor (:-)) feature -- saving will be 
>>disabled on Oct 17, 1989.
>
>Too bad.  The chances we'll have 1.0 available for general use
>before then are about zero.  Without a full demo, we'll be less
>inclined to get addicted to it, and thus less likely to
>site-license it

Actually, I had access to a crippled demo (freely redistributable, natch) of
FrameMaker, and got addicted to it very nicely, thank you.  Of course, it
wasn't useful for large documents or ongoing projects, but for a one-day
project like a letter, poster, flyer or short newsletter, it worked just fine.
Not only is printing still available, but you can print to a PostScript file
and therefore have an online archive of your final version.  After that,
though, you can make only minor changes such as spelling corrections (by
hacking the PostScript file), so a real save feature comes in real handy.  

The crippled demo is subtlely seductive ("it's free -- why not get what use of
it you can").  In the end, my manager started using it, got hooked, got
frustrated with the limited online storage facilities of `Print to File' and so
bought a license.

Note that I'm not taking exception to your assertion that the full-featured
version is superior to the crippled one, just to the other one that you won't
be able to generate addiction to FrameMaker without a full save feature.

And, of course, I wouldn't be saying any of this if I had any relationship to
Frame Corporation other than as a user.  I don't.
-- 
Be seeing you...
--Lang Zerner
langz@asylum.sf.ca.us   UUCP:bionet!asylum!langz   ARPA:langz@athena.mit.edu
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