They’ve had two people trained previously but both have since moved on to other opportunities...
> On Jun 23, 2017, at 2:03 PM, Robert Lauriston <[email protected]> wrote: > > Or train someone else to use FrameMaker. Someone who knows InDesign > shouldn't have much trouble learning it. > > Wha'ts delivered to the customer? FM files or PDF or ? > > On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Mikey Shine <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Why? >> >> Well I think the easy answer is that I hear most often from my employer is >> that I am the ONLY one who can work on this publication and this one >> publication is a huge part of the contract. Should something either happen >> to me or my employment with the company, they feel they'd find themselves >> between the proverbial rock and a hard place fast. The obvious question is >> why not hire someone else with the necessary experience in Frame to back me >> upright? I have no idea what their answer would be to that question. >> >> I guess if I'm being totally honest here, what I'm actually looking for is >> for more pros than cons as to why this document should remain in Frame. In >> today's workplace, I've found there's nothing quite like the job security >> of this publication being a native FrameMaker file and I'd really rather >> not give that up if I don't have to ;-) >> >>> On Jun 22, 2017, at 11:59 AM, Robert Lauriston <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> What do they hope to accomplish by doing that? >>> >>> The only sane reason I know would be that you deliver only as PDF >>> and/or print and want to be able to tweak it to get more visually >>> distinctive results than you get with FrameMaker. >>> >>> There's a service that will do the conversion: >>> http://www.dtptools.com/product.asp?id=mfid >>> >>>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Mikey Shine <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>>> My company has informed me that they’d like to switch one of our major >> publications over from FrameMaker to InDesign. If conversion is not an >> option, they wouldn’t be opposed to rebuilding the entire publication from >> scratch as an InDesign document. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> This message is from the Framers mailing list >>> >>> Send messages to [email protected] >>> Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com >>> Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/ >> framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ >>> Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/ >> listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com >>> Send administrative questions to [email protected] >> _______________________________________________ >> >> This message is from the Framers mailing list >> >> Send messages to [email protected] >> Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com >> Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/ >> framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ >> Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/ >> listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com >> Send administrative questions to [email protected] >> > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to [email protected] > Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com > Archives located at > http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ > Subscribe and unsubscribe at > http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com > Send administrative questions to [email protected] _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
