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Subject:Framemaker vs Word From:Suzy Davis <andavis -at- AU1 -dot- IBM -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 5 Jan 1999 10:49:51 +1100
Hi everyone
Apologies for raising a topic which has heaps in the archives but I've been
trying to access them over the last couple of weeks without success.
Now, it's getting urgent perhaps someone could forward to me a copy of one
of the good Framemaker vs Word summaries. We've been stuck using WordPro
for our specification documents (which has been a bug-ridden disaster -
makes Word look good - I don't believe I'm saying that!!!) and looking for
an alternative.
I suggested Framemaker and he's asked for some good juicy reasoning. We
use Word as well so a kind of "benefits of moving from Word to Framemaker
for long documents" would do the trick.
I am assuming that Framemaker is still the tool of choice? Please advise
if it isn't.
I'm hoping someone just has an old one on their PC.
Thanks
Suzy Davis
Technical Writer
Internet: andavis -at- au1 -dot- ibm -dot- com
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