RE: Is FrameMaker dead?

[<WilliamFLawrence -at- eaton -dot- com>]

InDesign is my day-to-day technical writing tool.  CS3 can do almost
everything that Frame can do out of the box, and with some of the
available plug-ins it's just as competent a tool for most tasks.
Actually, it's a much better page layout tool.  On the downside,
InDesign's XML capabilities were targeted at a different market so,
while it has quite powerful XML features, it's not a Docbook or DITA
editing/publishing solution.  Yet.  

By the way, CS3 also comes with a really nice content management system
that tightly couples with the CS3 tools.

Bill Lawrence


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Subject: Re: Is FrameMaker dead?

I use InDesign to develop my biweekly sci-fi
magazine<http://raygunrevival.com/index.html>,
and was missing some of the Frame-like text handling abilities in CS2
that
were added to CS3.  ID gets closer with each new version to being a tool
I'd
consider using for day-to-day technical writing in addition to the more
blatant desktop publishing applications.
-- 
John Cook
Technical Writer / Help Author
john dot cook at gmail dot com

On 10/17/07, Seb <techwritersblock -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> It will be interesting to see where FrameMaker and InDesign will be
heading
> in the near future. With every release, InDesign takes on more and
more
> features for long document support. Even as it is right now, there's
some
> significant product overlap.
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