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RE: FrameMaker releases (was FrameMaker vs Ventura) and PDF Mark
Subject:RE: FrameMaker releases (was FrameMaker vs Ventura) and PDF Mark From:"Brierley, Sean" <Sean -at- Quodata -dot- Com> To:"'techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com'" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 3 Oct 2000 12:48:47 -0400
Hallo:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Handy [SMTP:davidh -at- automsoft -dot- com]
>
> As a proud owner of Frame 5.5.6 and having just attended an Adobe promo
> for
> 6.0 I find Dan's comments interesting. I would be dismayed to find that
> WWP
> Standard Ed. is a dud
>
WWP SE is not a dud, it's an export filter for HTML and XML. If you need to
create online help, then WWP SE is the wrong tool.
> but am most interested in what Frame 6.0 does with PDF
> Mark Anyone got a few words on that? Put another way, does the v6
> Frame/Adobe package effectively generate stand-alone online docs?
>
FrameMaker 6 pretty much handles PDF the same way 5.5 did: yes, it can
effectively generate stand-alone online docs as PDFs.