zilaitis@SOLOMON.SQUIBB.COM (07/10/90)
Hi, Is there currently or at least plans of porting Framemaker to the Personal Iris? If so does anyone have any information regarding this, Where do I get it, How much is it? Who to contact Any info will be appreciated, thanks -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Squibb Institute for Medical Research -- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Vicki J. Zilaitis Internet Address: zilaitis@squibb.com Software Engineer Telephone: 609-921-4079 Scientific Information Systems FAX: 609-683-6163 ===============================================================================
zyda@TROUBLE.CS.NPS.NAVY.MIL (michael zyda) (07/11/90)
Framemaker 1.3 is available for the Personal IRIS. From SGI, it is very expensive. The price is (was?) about $2700 for one copy, compared to $500 per copy for a Sun version. I purchased it anyway as I didn't want to have both a Sun and PI in my office. Framemaker Behavior: It works just like the 1.3 version on my Sun except it seems to have a few more bugs and is much slower. Large Encapsulated Postscript files make PI Framemaker tilt and die. Documents in excess of about 120 pages make PI Framemaker die. None of these problems show on my Sun version of Framemaker. Our department has standardized on Framemaker mainly because of its wide availability. It is available for most all X windows platforms, the NeXT machine, the Macintosh, the PI, Suns etc. so it is a good choice from that perspective. Framemaker 1.3 documents go from my IRIS to the secretary's Sun with no conversion. Unfortunately, the department here has upgraded to Frame 2.0, not yet available on the IRIS so document exchange has now become one way... Michael Zyda
msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) (07/11/90)
In article <9007091917.AA02124@solomon>, zilaitis@SOLOMON.SQUIBB.COM writes: |> |> Hi, |> |> Is there currently or at least plans of porting Framemaker to |> the Personal Iris? |> If so does anyone have any information regarding this, Where do I get it, |> How much is it? Who to contact |> Any info will be appreciated, thanks FrameMaker version 1.3 is available from SGI. FrameMaker version 2.1 will be available in a few months. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play. It strongly defines its content."