Yes Serif are a large company and have been around a long time … also producing imaging software for the Windows platform … not that I have any dealings with Windows.
Really though, it’s the ‘buzz’ aspect of extended betas, that I feel has worked for them, as opposed to having a long enough ‘trial’ period. The betas aren’t about trialing the software so much as involvement in its progress and contributing in a useful way. The fact that the software is available as a free download is very important in encouraging this … but also, Serif couldn’t charge for beta software, as it’s not production ready. The real crux, is that when you are ready to hit the button on launch, you already have pent up demand, waiting for the day. Not only that, the beta base are likely to continue aiding with the effort and are not disappointed when bugs are still found to be in the shipping version. Fixing those quickly and releasing in a new build is very convincing. I had one bug that they fixed and managed to get into the next day’s build … so I had a fix within 24hrs. Impressive (if fortunate).
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We’re rewriting Freeway from scratch so that it will run on future 64-bit versions of macOS. This is a major task (even by comparison with previous transitions, such as the OSX transition) but we’re making good progress! It’s possible that we will have a public beta before we get to release, but we’re not at that stage yet.
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Interesting, so do you know it’s going to resurface as a reliable and stable website design tool or would investors likely pull the plug again? When things fell in a heap I went over to Adobe Muse and I absolutely love it, but now with the EOL I’ve been struggling to find something else that suits. I definitely don’t want anything where I have to work online, it must be able to offline, so I’ve been considering Rapidweaver.
Elizabeth
On 24 Oct 2018, at 10:49 pm, grantsymon email@hidden wrote:
It is more ‘paused in the water’ - but currently going through a refit.
The only investor in Softpress is Richard Logan, whom I have known for over 20 years. He has been the managing director of Softpress off and on for ~25 years, so I’d guess it’s a passion project for him.
Walter
On Oct 24, 2018, at 6:05 PM, Elizabeth Christie email@hidden wrote:
Interesting, so do you know it’s going to resurface as a reliable and stable website design tool or would investors likely pull the plug again? When things fell in a heap I went over to Adobe Muse and I absolutely love it, but now with the EOL I’ve been struggling to find something else that suits. I definitely don’t want anything where I have to work online, it must be able to offline, so I’ve been considering Rapidweaver.
Elizabeth
On 24 Oct 2018, at 10:49 pm, grantsymon email@hidden wrote:
It is more ‘paused in the water’ - but currently going through a refit.
“Passion” is definitely the word if you’ve ever spoken to him about it!
On 25 Oct 2018, 1:32 am, waltd wrote:
The only investor in Softpress is Richard Logan, whom I have known for over 20 years. He has been the managing director of Softpress off and on for ~25 years, so I’d guess it’s a passion project for him.
Walter
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yres! i’m still using freeway… doing a new mayor site for my company to… at least, at the moment i do what’s needed. soon as freeway 8 is availeble i will redo everything again, but then the whole job…
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Oh, I really hope that FW8 comes out before macOS goes 64 bit only. I’ve been a satisfied user since 2001 if I remember right. And I’d hate to move to another tool.
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Thank you .I 'll wait patiently and continue working with Freeway 7 on my old iMac. Hopefully the computer will last for a while ; )
I am waiting for the release of Freeway 8 to buy a new Mac so that I can avoid any possible compatibility problems.
All the best
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I currently am using Freeway 7 again in order to rebuild an earlier FW project in favour of another FW user. The list of pet peeves already is a mile long, so I’m really looking forward to ‘Freeway8’ or whatever the next flagship of Softpress will be baptised.
An CSS editor like the late CSSEdit would be more than welcome …
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On 26 Nov 2018, 10:35 pm, Richard van Heukelum wrote:
An CSS editor like the late CSSEdit would be more than welcome …
I would hope it would be MUCH better than that. To most people, that looks like code. I would hope that things would only look like that if you dig into Advanced or Extended settings but for most people you’d just have Styles that made sense (and worked better than the old versions where they kept duplicating themselves, etc.).
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