Adobe sucks
In the last few days I did some work on our MathML plug-in for FrameMaker. It is about three years ago when I did a term project with Christian Cavegn on this topic. We started working with FrameMaker7.0. Since then I am burdened from time to time to do a new release for the current release. I had no problem with version 7.1 and 7.2. But now with FrameMaker8.0 it is different.
First, when downloading the FrameMaker Developer Kit (FDK8.0) I noticed that the included documentation is still for FDK7.2. Finally I found some parts of the documentation online, but not the things I needed. So the only thing I could do is work with the well known principle try and error. But that is not the way we do our work at the IFS. So unless our costumer pays for guessing around (which I doubt) I am done with it 
Yes, I know it does not sound too bad… but of course there are several other things to mention about Adobe especially the Acrobat Reader. Why does the installer need to reboot after the update process? Not only that it gives an alert which recommends a to reboot the system. Sometimes it even reboots the system automatically after a few minutes. Nice feature when you are compiling or letting the computer work itself without controlling the monitor.
And not to forget how slowly this document viewer is… Compared to other pdf viewer!
July 11th, 2009 at 10:59 pm
To clarify:
This post was/is against Adobe and how they do things. Not against he product FrameMaker itself.