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I've used Word and FrameMaker and, although I never had to use Word extensively,
I much prefer Frame. You define styles, page layouts, etc. in Frame, and (for
the most part) Frame obeys. It doesn't try to guess what you want to do. It
might not seem as easy to learn at first, but once you've grasped some basic
concepts, you'll probably find it's easy to accomplish most tasks.
If you're the only one with Frame, but others have Acrobat (the full package,
not just Reader) you can have people review documents and make annotation using
Acrobat, but they can't screw up the original document. A definite plus!
I can't comment on Quark because I've never used it.
IPCC 01, the IEEE International Professional Communication Conference,
October 24-27, 2001 at historic La Fonda in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
CALL FOR PAPERS OPEN UNTIL MARCH 15. http://ieeepcs.org/2001/
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