Where can you get Framemaker?
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000, Stephen F. Bosch mewed:
> Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>
> > > So does Microsoft Word... have you ever tried to manage a document
> > > that's more than 18 pages in Word? With images and tables of contents?
> >
> > Ahem, I did. 291 pages, more than 80 images, footnotes, toc and
> > index, all with Word97. Wrote it in separate docs and finally
> > put the whole thing together. Took me 2 working days to manually
> > correct pagebreaks, footnotes, image-descriptions, Pagenumbers
> > in toc, etc.
>
> The biggest document I ever did in Word 97 was some 45, 50 pages, with
> photos, tables, footnotes, etc... it was very unstable -- it would choke
> halfway through printing (and no, it wasn't it the printer's fault -- it
> happened on different machines with different printers) - okay, fine, so
> we print from where the last print job stopped, right? Wrong -- now all
> the page numbers were incorrect (it had tremendous difficulty with
> pagination, it seemed).
>
> It was infuriating. I'll never trust a large document to Word again --
> if I need to do big stuff I'll use Framemaker (which comes in a version
> for Unix, by lucky happenstance =) ).
>
> > Trying to make a point that you *can* do a large doc in Word!
> > Also you could do large documents in stones some 4000 yrs ago!
> > Just a matter of time and manpower.
>
> Yes... but by extension you could also do it in StarOffice =)
>
> -Stephen-
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