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Subject:re: InDesign, anyone? From:Carl Young <carl -at- digipubcorp -dot- com> To:Scott Wilson <scottw -at- harlequin -dot- co -dot- uk>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:36:00 -0700
Hi Scott,
You wrote:
>> Is InDesign an acceptable "halfway house" between Framemaker and
>> QuarkXpress for producing *both* user manuals and more
>> graphically-intensive marketing materials? Or does it fail to make the
>> grade for documentation usage?
InDesign is not a product for technical manuals. No table editor, no automatic indexer, and so on. It's for doing a few pretty pages at a time. It has wonderful typesetting capabilities, but none of the "practical" stuff tech docs require.
Regards,
Carl
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