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Seanb_us
Inspiring
February 2, 2018
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Buying FrameMaker and Trial Version Curiosity

  • February 2, 2018
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Hi,

I am considering upgrading from FM12, part of a TCS version I have, to FM 2017 (and dropping TCS). A couple of curious things about this.

1) I just googled buy FrameMaker, or similar, to avoid having to navigate the Adobe Website which caters to CC apps and not FM. I first found where I could buy FM for the African and Asian market (priced in SR), and next I got an Asian only Adobe shop that did sell in dollars. I eventually found where I wanted to be, but through navigation from Adobe.com and not search.

2) I am installing the trial version of 2017. I went to download it.

Adobe's download and installer don't support the Chrome browser.

1) This would have been nice to know beforehand, because I would have used Firefox or IE instead.

2) Really, you don't support the most popular browser on the planet? Browser market share

Anyway, off we go.

Cheers,

Sean

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Correct answer Stefan Gentz

Hi,

when I tried it in Chrome, I get this window:

From there I can directly download the following two files and run the installer once they are downloaded:

Framemaker_14_LREFDJ.7z

Framemaker_14_LREFDJ.exe

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Stefan Gentz
Legend
February 2, 2018

Hi Sean,

when you go to the Adobe FrameMaker product page (Adobe FrameMaker (2017 release)-For XML/DITA Authoring & Publishing),  there is blue/white “Buy now” button …

But I guess that’s not what you mean?

I cannot test right now, but the downloader should work with Chrome as well.

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Seanb_usAuthor
Inspiring
February 2, 2018

Try it.
I found that after attempting to get the  trial, I got an error message that said my browser (Chrome) was unsupported. It would have been nice to know that beforehand. Also, I was then able to belatedly find information that tells Firefox and IE are the only supported browsers in Windows. Chrome is supported on the Mac, apparently, but since 2003 was the last year that FrameMaker supported Mac OS, it's unlikely that I am downloading to a non-Windows Mac PC.

Anyway, I got it all done and running.

Cheers,

Sean

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Stefan GentzCorrect answer
Legend
February 4, 2018

Hi,

when I tried it in Chrome, I get this window:

From there I can directly download the following two files and run the installer once they are downloaded:

Framemaker_14_LREFDJ.7z

Framemaker_14_LREFDJ.exe

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