Well after my other thread "this could get ugly", and after a few bugs found, and some data loss, it's pretty clear that this software is not for professional writers, and has a long way to go to achieve that goal.

But I realised this morning that it's not meant for professional writers, it's meant soley as a competitor to Celtx. As Celtx has a large base funded by subscriptions and Adobe want to grab some of that market for CS Live, thus put out a clone of sorts that competes. Use AIR to develop it fast and be able to 'online' it. Thus generating subscriptions, or at least possibly prevent people from going elsewhere.

Unfortunately it is not even close to its main competitor Celtx at the moment, maybe in another year it may well be. That is generally the timeframe for clones of this nature. As often the people doing the work don't have expertise in the field to 'know' what is required and why and much more specifically how to "make it better".

That's no disrespect to Adobe, they see a market that's been underserved and go after it, qdos. There is more knowledge needed in this business area than typical management directives of  just farming it out (even if that is internal), that does reflect quite clearly in some of the software's implementation.

If you want to use this for school projects, or test the waters of your writing skills then it cuts the mustard. For professionals or semi-professionals there are more complete and clearly better alternatives elsewhere.

Credit where its due, the import/export of the two main packages standalone products is a very good idea. Maybe they didn't do 'Celtx' as not to for forewarn potential clients. Not a bad strategy.

FIN

Steven