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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!europa.clark.net!news.mathworks.com!news.eecs.umich.edu!life.eecs.umich.edu!not-for-mail From: pmchen@life.eecs.umich.edu (Peter M. Chen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Framemaker for FreeBSD? Date: 8 Apr 1997 00:59:11 GMT Organization: University of Michigan EECS Lines: 16 Message-ID: <5ic58v$n9q$1@news.eecs.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: life.eecs.umich.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38739 Anybody know if Framemaker has been ported to FreeBSD (or Linux, and can be emulated on FreeBSD)? Or is there some other desktop publishing system that runs on a free Unix (besides LaTeX and troff)? If not, I wonder how much work it would be to port this from a commercial Unix platform (e.g. Solaris, HP/UX, Digital Unix, etc.). Can someone who has experience porting a large, graphically-intensive application comment on the pitfalls and difficulties? I also wonder if Adobe would allow some outsider to port Framemaker for them with the appropriate non-disclosure agreement. Doing the porting work for the companies could be a potent method for getting more commercial applications up and running on the free Unixes. But I may just be naive about the difficulty and legal problems. Pete