So, the money we would have spent on DWF Professional, we spent on a competing product, because the competing product WORKS (platform neutral - even Palm PDAs can read our plans!) whereas the Autodesk product DOESN'T WORK.(limited to the very few Windows clients who have bothered to install DWF viewer - almost all of them said 'why can't we just use PDF?')Ĭan anyone at Autodesk get this through their heads? I WANT TO BUY DWF Composer/whatever-it's-called-this-year, but I don't because it would be wasting money on a product that doesn't work (ie, produce system-neutral documents)Īutodesk licenses cost a LOT each year, but each year I feel like I am paying the Mafia for fire insurance, rather than paying for software development and updates. Sure, we could get a free writer, but we need the markup capability as well. The greater PDF costs are because we have to buy Acrobat Professional - the Revit export of PDFs is deliberately broken to disallow multi-page files ('to encourage the use of DWF' - quote from Autodesk rep, circa 2003). Not being able to share DWF with them costs us money in having to use PDF, and greater email costs due to the file size.

Wrote in message AutoDesk make an announcement in Sept 2003 that it would Make a DWFĢ years is a pretty long lead time for a company that says 'We do not makeĪvailability until the software is very near availability.'Īlmost all of our clients (usually non-techincal people or graphic / interior designers) use Macs / Intel Apples. DWG, Informative Graphics, Rasterex, Spicer Software, Macintosh users can view DWF files using server or Java-based viewersĪvailable from several of our 3rd party partners (e.g., ACS Software,Ĭimmetry Systems, Dr. Independent, for example the DWF toolkit runs on Linux as well as the

Though many parts of our software are already platform Now you see exactly why we don't give datesįor releases in these newsgroups or other forums.Īutodesk and Apple are working together on porting our Windows code to the Yes we did have a press release that the two companies are working together.

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