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November 18, 2014
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FrameMaker vs InDesign

  • November 18, 2014
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What are the benefits of using FrameMaker over InDesign?

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    Bob_Niland
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    November 18, 2014

    > What are the benefits of using FrameMaker over InDesign?

    For what type of document?

    And have you searched on this topic? I quickly found, for example:

    http://indesignsecrets.com/better-framemaker-indesign.php

    Legend
    November 18, 2014

    From my limited experience … keeping your hair and your sanity :-} and the better you know FM, the better off you are sticking with it. There are so many things that IDD does just that bit differently, and even quite a few (last time I tried) it doesn't do at all. The only feature I can remember vaguely wishing FM had was the ability to run text round an irregularly-shaped graphic, but for the sort of documentation I handle that's rarely if ever a requirement.

    We're moving more and more to structured documentation, too; I've never tried to find out whether IDD can support that. Importing XML (and even IDD's own tagged text) has caused me much grief in the past.