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Subject:Re: Shopping For Composition Software From:"Karen L. Zorn" <k -dot- zorn -at- zorntech -dot- com> To:Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com Date:Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:11:54 -0700
FrameMaker, FrameMaker, FrameMaker. Flows, multi-column pages, graphics
handling, maser pages, and much, much more. Your tagged content can be
mapped to paragraph formats.
And, it doesn't cost $70,000!
Karen L. Zorn
ZornTech LLC
Mesa, AZ
Brian -dot- Henderson -at- mitchell1 -dot- com wrote:
> I need to be able to import existing text, probably tagged already
> (SGML, HTML, custom markup). And I need to be able to flow the text. The
> capabilities I need are probably better described by explaining that my
> previous document creating methods involved, for example, converting
> SGML markup to a custom markup, creating extensive style libraries to
> control the format of the particular job, then composing thousands of
> pages -- with minimal tweaking of individual pages. Most systems, that
> I'm aware of (PageMaker 5 for instance), tend to require a lot of
> manipulation on each page of the document, something that's impractical
> for the huge number of pages that I need to create. Most of the work
> needs to be done before the document is composed and rendered on-screen.
>
>
>
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