[OS X TeX] Flashmode-TS 2.1 - a complaint

[Claus Gerhardt]

Paolo,

Under Flashmode's pricing scheme all buyers of a special variant get  
free upgrades of that variant whenever there is one available.  
Offering upgrades to all, regardless of which variant they have  
bought poses a slightly logistical problem. However,  any buyer of a  
Flashmode variant can write me an email and ask for a copy of another  
variant. At the moment there is no risk that I shall drown in  
possible requests.

I shall send you a F-TS copy. By the way you bought a copy of F/ 
BBEdit not Alpha. I would also like to discourage anybody to buy the  
Alpha variant, since it will no longer be supported.

Claus


On May 23, 2005, at 16:57, Paolo Ghirardato wrote:

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>
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>> Flashmode-TS now works with TeXShop/TeXShop under Tiger. A  
>> modified TeXShop 2.03 application has to be used which can be  
>> downloaded  independently from
>>
>> http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/studinfo/gerhardt/texshop203mod- 
>> G4.zip
>> or
>> http://www.math.uni-heidelberg.de/studinfo/gerhardt/texshop203mod- 
>> G5.zip
>>
>> The modification prevents the pdf window to come to front after a  
>> refreshpdf command is issued. The G4 compilation will also run on  
>> a G5 but not as smoothly as the G5 version in my own subjective view.
>>
>> At the moment I consider the new combination (F-editor-previewer)  
>> to be the best of the Flashmode variants which is mainly due to OS  
>> 10.4, PDFKit and its superb implementation in TeXShop by Richard  
>> Koch.
>>
>> Claus
>>
>>
>>
>
> I have gone to Claus's website, to download this version of FS, and  
> I have realized to my dismay that, even though I have purchased a  
> license for FS, I will have to buy a new one if I want to use this  
> version. In fact, the version I bought is for the Alpha/TeXniscope  
> combination, and I have now learned that I need to buy a new  
> version if I want to use it with the TeXShop/TeXShop combination.
>
> I don't know about the other people in this list, but I have to  
> admit that paying almost 120$ for a fully functional version of FS  
> (one that would work for any setup I might be using) -- or even  
> paying almost 60$ for one that only works with Alpha and TeXShop,  
> for that matter -- seems to me frankly excessive.
>
> I understand that each combination requires specific work (is it  
> really totally different as the pricing scheme  suggests?), and I  
> understood Claus's decision to charge for his useful program when I  
> made it. In fact, I paid my 29.50 without complaining. Yet, it  
> seems to me that the pricing scheme for Flashmode should have been  
> devised in a manner that does not de facto constrain me to use a  
> specific editor and previewer.
> paolo
>
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