RE: InDesign vs. Frame

["Wilhelm, Joel" <jwilhelm -at- athenati -dot- com>]

Thanks Eric. So is InDesign not friendly to text? I don't get what it
can't do that Frame can. Why are long docs bad in InDesign in other
words?

Joel

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Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:53 AM
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Subject: RE: InDesign vs. Frame

I use both InDesign and FrameMaker virtually every day. At this point, I
would not even consider long documents in InDesign. Although there are
tons of features that are similar/the same, I have to get in a different
mindset for each program. I don't consider this a bad thing. I have 500+
page manuals in FrameMaker, and even small technical docs (25-50 pages),
I'd rather do in FrameMaker.

BUT... if anything is graphic intensive, or has even a slight amount of
"irregularity" about it (pictures that I want to wrap text around in a
creative way, lots of colors, etc.), I immediately think InDesign.

Granted, I also create online help from FrameMaker via ePublisher, so I
doubt it would even be an option for me to lay out an entire manual in
InDesign. I did do an 80 page Quick Reference Guide in InDesign, but I
hand-entered the TOC and index because those seemed counter-intuitive to
me in a page layout program. Those things are practically automatic in
FrameMaker.

Your mileage may vary, and I haven't looked at InDesign CS3 yet. So
things may have changed.
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