Adobe Kills FrameMaker for Mac

Feneric writes "As noted on FrameUsers.com, FrameMaker for the Mac was officially killed by Adobe. Of course, since one of the primary selling points of FrameMaker is its wonderfully solid cross-platform MS-Windows / Macintosh / Unix support, many are now wondering how long it'll now last for any platform."

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frame was a good app...

[Visigothe]

Frame was a good app, but it was also a niche app, as it was really only good for long document publishing [books]. That said Indesign and XPress own the much larger magazine and newspaper publishing arena. Adobe just realized that they weren't selling that many copies of the application on the Mac side, and decided to drop it.

The Solaris version may continue to survive, as some RIPs are still running on Solaris, and it is helpful to have the app on that platform [and they can charge *much* more for each seat... take a look at what Adobe charged for Photoshop on SGI/IRIX and compare it to the Mac/Win version].

It is always sad when a large company drops a product for an OS, but if the audience isn't there, why bother? Smart move on Adobe's part.

Re:I don't think this is the first time...

[Visigothe]

While it is true that Aldus was the creator of PageMaker, Adobe bought out Aldus in the late 80s/early 90s. Dropping PageMaker 10+ years later isn't such a big deal, considering their new product InDesign was to take over the roll of PageMaker when it first came on the scene.

It was only when old-schoolers refused to change over to the new app that Adobe decided to keep PageMaker around for a while longer [rightly so, InDesign 1 sucked, and was *not* a Quark killer that they promised it would be].