Re: replacing Word - Framemaker vs Indesign?

Subject: Re: replacing Word - Framemaker vs Indesign?
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 14:12:40 -0800


David Neeley wrote:

I enjoyed the article, thanks!
[snip]

I am glad to hear you believe it may be adequate.

I'm glad the article was useful.

One thing I didn't mention in the article was that I've written 8 or 9 manuals in OpenOffice.org.

As you might expect, I found a few quirks that needed working through. However, what software doesn't have its quirks? There was nothing very serious, though.

I should also mention that one of the reasons why I think that OOo a good FrameMaker replacement is that both programs, unlike MS Word, seem oriented to page layouts and long documents. In many ways, the logic behind the programs is similar - although users can sometimes be tripped up differences.

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