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The cost of software is an insufficient reason to choose Word over Frame; FrameMaker isn't that expensive. Poor documentation and inefficiency, on the other hand, are both really expensive.
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From: Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 3:35 PM
To: Dan Goldstein
Cc: TECHWR-L (techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com)
Subject: Re: Future Tech Writer with Software Questions
It's hard for me to believe that if a company properly calculated the total cost of authoring tools it would choose Word over a professional tool such as Flare or FrameMaker.
In my experience, such false economies reflect general bad practices throughout a company. Maybe there are exceptions.
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