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Subject:conditional text without FrameMaker? From:Melissa Fisher <mfisher -at- AUTOMATEDLOGIC -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 2 Jul 1999 12:06:43 -0400
Hi! Our marketing director just came by to ask about a problem he's having
producing our price list. We produce different versions with their own
variations of products and prices, and currently they are maintained as separate
PageMaker documents. He asked me if he could use FrameMaker to produce all the
versions from one source. Of course I told him he could, but considering this is
the only document he'd need FrameMaker for, FrameMaker's steep price and
learning curve make it more than a little unattractive (and I agree with that
assessment).
Ideally I think he'd like some kind of database tool to produce the list from.
Does anyone out there have any ideas? This is not a high-gloss production, so as
a word-processor or page layout application the tool does not have to be very
sophisticated.
Anyone ever accomplished something like this before with a package other than
FrameMaker?
Thanks,
Melissa Fisher
mfisher -at- automatedlogic -dot- com
