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Subject:RE: XMetaL, Epic or ??? From:"Jessica N. Lange" <jlange -at- OEE -dot- com> To:"TechWR-L" <TECHWR-L -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:51:15 -0500
Tom Johnson wrote in response to Stephanie's query:
>This issue of providing online documents for review has come up before
along with the concept of engineers and programmers wanting to mark up
documents. <snip>
>If your managers want to standardize across the board, why not go with
Word? Everbody knows it and everybody (just about) has it.
I frequently send Word documents to engineers & other
for electronic review. I protect the document & track for
changes, so I can see what they've cut & what they've
added when they send the revised doc back to me.
Works like a charm.
>FrameMaker has a pretty good utility (FrameViewer) that allows others to
view FrameMaker documents.
Microsoft also provides a free Word Viewer, but the doc cannot
be edited.
(PS, I'm not trying to inflame the Frame vs Word debate,
just relating what works for me.)
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Jessica N. Lange mailto:jlange -at- oee -dot- com
Technical Communicator, Ohio Electronic Engravers, Inc.
