Tutorial Geared to FrameMaker Users?
Anyone know of a good tutorial for someone coming from FrameMaker?
Anyone know of a good tutorial for someone coming from FrameMaker?
Emphasis on "slightly." ID will do just about anything Word will, especially if you're "working to pages" and need the layout control more than every small word-processing feature of the latter. For instance, when users here are having trouble importing Word docs or trying to do complex things in ID after import, I usually recommend doing all the editing, cleanup, fixes, reformatting etc, in Word. Pulling as clean and organized a file as possible into ID just goes more smoothly, even though you can use ID search/replace, GREP, scripting etc. to do most of the same things.
I use a stripped and hot-rodded version of Word to do all long, continuous writing simply because it's more streamlined. But again, I've written complete, complex books right from a blank first page in ID, too.
I haven't had a working version of FM (7.2 was my last) for some time. I did an update of one of my oldest books, and couldn't find my 7.2 disks and didn't want to pay for the Tech Suite just to move it to ID. So I pulled the Word version out of an original PDF and went from there to a Kindle edition from ID in a few days.
I more recently got FM again, and was mildly surprised to find it so... primitive even after a decade of updates. I think you'll appreciate InDesign a lot, although it has none of the zillion Esc-key shortcuts. (I still have those in digital memory although I can't remember what most do!)
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