But you're still using Word - which I find highly unreliable, especially for larger docs. And Word doesn't handle images nearly as well as Frame, especially if you're using icons in instructions.
What kind of price tag for SmartDocs? Alison -----Original Message----- From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+acraig=shaw...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Keith Soltys Sent: December 21, 2017 2:16 PM To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers@lists.frameusers.com> Subject: Re: [Framers] Frame 2017 Export to Word Agreed on using SmartDocs. It's Snapshots feature for managing conditional text and variables in a document is far superior to Word's as is its snippet management. Regards Keith -- Keith Soltys Senior Technical Writer Architecture / Global Technology Services T +1 416 947-4397 TMX | www.tmx.com <http://tmx.com/> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Robert Lauriston <rob...@lauriston.com> wrote: > They could use SmartDocs and have the best of both worlds. > > Actually, the conditional stuff would probably be a lot better than > unstructured FrameMaker. > > On 12/19/17, A Craig <acr...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > ... I was at a job interview today and it sounds like they could > > really > use the > > Conditional aspects of Frame in order to deliver various flavours of > > the same manuals. However, they have done without a tech writer for > > a while > and > > like the fact that their engineers can simply go into a Word doc and > > make changes themselves. ... > _______________________________________________ > > This message is from the Framers mailing list > > Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com 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 listad...@frameusers.com > -- NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY This e-mail, including all materials contained in or attached to this e-mail, contains proprietary and confidential information solely for the internal use of the intended recipient. If you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or otherwise and ensure that it is permanently deleted from your systems, and do not print, copy, distribute or read its contents. AVIS DE CONFIDENTIALIT Le pr sent courriel, y compris tous les documents qu'il contient ou qui y sont joints, renferme des renseignements exclusifs et confidentiels destin s uniquement l'usage interne du destinataire pr vu. Si vous avez re u le pr sent courriel par erreur, veuillez nous aviser imm diatement, notamment par retour de courriel, et vous assurer qu'il est supprim de fa on permanente de vos syst mes; veuillez galement vous abstenir d'imprimer, de copier, de distribuer ou de lire son contenu. _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com 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 listad...@frameusers.com _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com 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 listad...@frameusers.com
