General Question of FrameMaker

What kind of work will you need to do with FrameMaker? What kind of publications does your company create now? What tools does your company use now? What reasons are there to consider changing tools or adding new tools? Who creates the documents - a single author from start-to-finish per publication, or multiple so multiple authors contribute content to one or several final-production workers? Will the deliverables on paper, Web, mobile devices, all? Do you need help systems as part of the projects?

The more information you provide, the more useful the responses will be.

In the old days when there were wars between MS Word adherents and FrameMaker loyals, a common taunt was "yaaah. Your Microsft user manuals are written in FrameMaker." FrameMaker's largest user-base has traditionally been technical writers. If you need to product tech publications, check out the forums on techwr-l.com. You can ask questions there about preferences between the various powerful tools like FrameMaker.

HTH

Regards,

Peter

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Peter Gold

KnowHow ProServices

What you use for page layout depends on your actual needs?

If your content is highly structured text and not graphically rich content, FrameMaker may be what you need.

If you are producing content that uses significant color, transparency effects, and/or multimedia, you should be looking more at InDesign.

          - Dov