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>If you have good software skills, learning FM is not
>impossible, but I would set aside a few days to play
>with it. FrameMaker is very complicated - much, much
>more complicated than Quark Xpress or PageMaker.
As Jeff's description of his problem with paragraph tags and
sideheads suggest, this statement is true for template design
only. Anybody with an experience of another word processor or two
should have little trouble working in Frame with an existing
template.
>FM's interface is completely different from the other Adobe
>products I've used (PageMaker, PageMill, PhotoShop,
>and Acrobat). I think this interface is less intuitive
>until you get into the programmer's head.
It might be more exact to say that the FrameMaker interface is
not typical of the average Windows program. In my experience,
people who have used a variety of word or layout programs on a
variety of platforms usually adjust to FrameMaker the fastest.
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And the showers began to fall,
And John Barleycorn sprung up again,
And so he dunned them all."
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