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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
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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