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Responding to Michael Johnson, Richard Combs wrote:
> It seems to me that Arbortext would have to offer some really compelling advantages to justify tossing aside FM and your existing knowledge of it. I doubt that it does. IIRC, from some discussions a few years ago, just generating a decent PDF (which is child's play with FM) was quite non-trivial.
In fact, it was not uncommon for organizations using Arbortext as their structured authoring tool to use FrameMaker as the engine for producing PDF or hard copy deliverables. At a former employer, we were investigating Arbortext and the company rep actually recommended such a system as an alternative to their own formatting engine.
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