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"Jan Henning" <henning -at- r-l -dot- de> wrote in message news:221595 -at- techwr-l -dot- -dot- -dot-
> On the recent congress of Tekom (the German equivalent to STC), people
> close to Adobe strongly hinted that Adobe is considering a "PageMaker
> solution" for FrameMaker, i.e., releasing one final version and then
> trying to shift users to InDesign (to be beefed up with technical
> documentation functions, apparently).
Gosh, I hope not. I've been trying to use InDesign (2.0) recently to do my
holiday newsletter (after years of doing many layout-intensive documents in
PageMaker--since version 4) and I'm finding it a design that is more
frustrating than FrameMaker. No story editor. Creating runarounds for
odd-shaped graphics. No preview when designing paragraph styles.
Thing is, I tried going "back" to PageMaker (7.0), but when I dropped in a
.GIF file wiht a transparent background, it displayed and printed with a
gray background.
It'd be interesting to see how a design could be cobbled together that
combines features of both intricate page layout and structured information.
>
> So everybody may face the decision whereto to shift from FrameMaker in
> the medium term (2 to 5 years?).
>
> To me, XML-based workflows look increasingly attractive, not least
> because they would free us from the constraints of proprietary document
> formats. Of course, many advantages that FrameMaker offers are not
> there yet in XML applications. But the frenetic pace of development in
> this area (not FrameMaker ;-) promises to change that rapidly. And
> anyway, we're talking about preparing for the medium future, not about
> today.
>
I got lost. "XML-based workflow?"
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