: RE: FrameMaker at Kinko's
Long ago there was a product called FrameReader that enabled the user to
view but not edit .fm files. It was very inexpensive, in the $29.95
area.
I remember a printer I worked with in Boston bought it so they could
more easily work with my files.
These days I have
. The InDesign GUI is just
plain awful and the online help is not helpful at ALL. I certainly hope i
never have to use it again.
Diane
-Original Message-
>From: John Sgammato
>Sent: Jan 10, 2006 10:55 AM
>To: Phillip Norman , framers at lists.frameusers.com
>Subject: RE: FrameMake
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:38:33 -0800 (GMT-08:00),
Diane Gaskill wrote:
>You can use Final Draft by Quadralay to convert FM docs
>to an xml format that anyone with their free reader can
>read and/or mark up. It's similar to the Acrobat 7 Pro
>setup. Lotsa bucks for the main program, but the
> From: Phillip Norman
> Isn't FrameMaker the best word processor?
FM has tons of nice features, but I don't consider it a word processor. If
it is, it sure ain't the best. Doesn't even have drag-and-drop editing.
_
Regards,
John Wilcox, Technical Writer
Zetron,
Word unbearable for complex structured documents.
My response to the August 2004 FrameMaker Survey was a request that
FrameMaker be offered to a much broader market, affording price
competition with Word. We should hope to find FrameMaker at Kinko's.
I invite a conversation on this subject. Isn't
if a future version of FrameMaker will merge with InDesign?
-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces+jsgammato=imprivata@lists.frameusers.com
On Behalf Of Phillip Norman
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 12:51 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: FrameMaker at Kinko's
I use
In the really old days, it was common to print FM files to PostScript
files using a PostScript printer driver provided or specified by the
print vendor.
PDF has changed how print vendors see the world, now. Instead of
having to learn zillions of quirky and not-so-quirky applications,
they
