FrameMaker product demonstration + Q&A sessions?

Does Adobe offer product demonstrations for prospective buyers? I work with a small team writing policies and procedures for a much larger and complex group, and we're exploring more efficient tools for document creation, and management. Currently we're using Word, and whenever a large change takes place in the industry, we're forced to update multiple documents which contain overlapping information. We've got no prior experience using technical writing software, and we'd like a demonstration of the capabilities of FrameMaker, and, in particular, it's single-source publishing functionality.

i believe they do for large deployments, but their user base is pretty extensive so most perspective clients have rely on one of the following:
This forum. It is a great place to get good friendly advice from real users.
Adobe blogs like http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/category/products/framemaker
Adobe TV which has online tutorials http://tv.adobe.com/product/framemaker/
Seminars recorded by the Product Managers: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=list&loc=en_us&type=ondemand_seminar&pr oduct=Technical+Communication+Suite&interest=&audience=

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From FrameMaker Product Management

We do look at the forum posts from time to time. More so during product planning phases. The inputs received on the forums is a valuable source of information for us.
We also try to have direct communication with experienced FrameMaker users. We are currently in the planning phase for the future versions of FrameMaker. We would really appreciate if FrameMaker users can take out some time to share their ideas and wishlist with us.
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Find the entry for GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK in the [Preferences]
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+++++++++++++++++++++
This post gives all the information I know about using colors in
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including creating PDFs.
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=====================================
FrameMaker supports three different color models:
- CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Key)
- RGB (Red, Green, Blue)
- HLS (Hue, Light, Saturation).
FrameMaker uses an algorithm to convert between each of these color
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For example:
RGB to CMYK:
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G = min(100 - K - M, 0)
B = min(100 - K - Y, 0)
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Like most Windows applications, FrameMaker uses the Windows graphics
device
interface (GDI) for its output. The GDI handles both display and
printer
output.
Unfortunately, the GDI only supports the RGB color model. Any colors
that
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output
(see below).
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unchanged
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unchanged.
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(see "If you type in the component values" above).
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- the CMYK values for the ink that are stored in the library,
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uses
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device
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"ColorLib [in maker.ini] specifies the folder that contains color
library
files. These files are read in at startup and appear in the Color
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library
file formatted in the ASCII Color Format (.acf), version 2.1 or
earlier, or
in the Binary Color Format (.bcf), version 2.0. You can't use a
FrameMaker
product to save a .bcf library file."
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ACF 1.0
My Color Library
LibraryVersion: 1.0
Copyright: © 2005 Mike Hardy. All rights reserved.
AboutMessage: Colors for my company
Names: Partial
Rows: 4
Columns: 4
Entries: 2
Prefix:
Suffix:
Type: Process
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0 0.25 0.5 0.25
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Burnt Orange
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French Blue
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down
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by
trial and error in another application
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printing, then change to the CMYK color model, and note down the
"equivalent" CMYK values
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for
display, and the CMYK values you noted for printing
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This doesn't get you CMYK output, but it's the best you can do under
Windows. Note, however, that setting GetLibraryColorRGBFromCMYK to
"Printing" might not give such good results with the predefined color
libraries (see above).

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attend the courses.
More and more people are starting to realize and admit
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