Yes, we all specialize...

And of all the "A" personalities I know (including myself) we're all
indispensable and unique.

If you are documenting or teaching-FM
If you are selling or worried about how it looks on a frame on the wall-ID

-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Litchfield [mailto:a...@alphabyte.co.nz] 
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 2:43 PM
To: Matt Sullivan
Cc: peter at knowhowpro.com; 'framers'
Subject: Re: InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

Neither ;)

Education, policy and government planning documentation. Remember  
there are many types of documentation to which FM is applied beyond  
tech writing and marketing.

Cheers
Alan


On 16/09/2008, at 9:31 AM, Matt Sullivan wrote:

> If the material is tech in nature, leave it in Frame!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> If the material is marketing collateral, (fully) enjoy the flex and
> sophisticated typography that ID will give you.
>
> -Matt
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Alan  
> Litchfield
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 2:18 PM
> To: peter at knowhowpro.com
> Cc: framers
> Subject: Re: InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker
>
> Gotta say, after Peter's run through, that I am considering trying out
> CS3 on an existing project that is mostly gnarly tables, cross
> references, and list and index markers.
>
> While it sounds great that ID is now able to perform most core
> functions it is with concern that some are only available with the
> addition of plug-ins. How will this affect backward compatibility for
> old and archived files?
>
> The backward compatibility in FM is one of its greatest strengths, for
> instance I have in the last couple of days been doing stuff with FM
> files I have not seen for 8 years. FM has no problem with working with
> these but I doubt that ID+various plug-ins would behave as nicely. One
> of the great pleasures of flicking QuarkXPress off the system was also
> saying good bye to the incessant problems I had with Xtensions'
> missing warnings, I would not want to put myself back into that
> situation with ID. On the other extreme, that is why I also produce a
> fair amount in LaTeX - for the fact that if all else fails, it is only
> text but ID is not.
>
> Cheers
> Alan
>
> --
> Alan Litchfield MBus(Hons), MNZCS
> AlphaByte
> PO Box 1941, Auckland, NZ. 1140
> http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
>
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