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Subject:Re: Documentation Review Process and Tools From:John Posada <jposada01 -at- yahoo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Aug 2001 06:01:33 -0700 (PDT)
Should the first bullet item have been:
- you [are the only one to] use Framemaker to create documentation
[and everyone else uses Word].
You have several recourses:
- Change to Word (not likely).
- Buy 20 FM licenses (seee above)
- Create an RTF for each file in the book instead of the whole book
(The files, while big, will be smaller).
- Send the reviewers the document in PDF and let them mark up using
the appropriate PDF tools (bummer on having to enter the edits
manually).
- Accept markups only on paper or paragraph/snips of information as
attachments to an email.
- Buy Mif2Go and use it to convert to RTF.
The problem is that you want FrameMaker to act like FM, but the files
to be Word. It always has been a major (and expensive) obstacle.
--- Cedric Simard <cedricns -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Imagine you are working in a company where:
> - you use FrameMaker to create documentation,
> - nearly 20 people have to review different parts of each piece of
> documentation before sending to customers.
>
> How would you proceed?
The Mif2Go route. Did it. Worked OK (not great) for them and OK (not
great) for me.
=====
John Posada, Senior Technical Writer
"I am a bomb disposal expert. If you see me running, try to keep up." mailto:john -at- tdandw -dot- com, 732-259-2874
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