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Re: Thanks re Quark v. FrameMaker -- and one more question ...
Subject:Re: Thanks re Quark v. FrameMaker -- and one more question ... From:"Curtis Brautigam" <bunnies -at- cvns -dot- net> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 29 Jun 2002 22:26:45 -0400
At 4:38 PM -0400 6/28/02, Geoff Brown wrote:
>To the folks who weighed in on FrameMaker v. Quark ... thanks so much. It
>helps.
>
>The client has decided to use PageMaker.
>
>I'm assured by a consultant the client hired that PageMaker is the best of
>all possible tools, though the book project will contain no graphics, very
>limited page-to-page variation, will consist of dozens of sub-documents
that
>will need to be rearranged for each new edition, and will need a new TOC
and
>index generated each time.
>
>Oh, well ... does anyone have an idea where the landmines are dealing with
>long docs in PageMaker?
I really feel sorry for the client. The company where I am working uses
PageMaker for its documentation, and our Tech Comm department is seriously
considering going to FrameMaker. I came on board not too long ago, and the
people there know that I am a self-confessed FrameMaker fanatic. They have
been having the following problems with PageMaker:
1. File Bloat--this has been the case with very long documents.
2. Compatibility--I have opened up PageMaker 6.5 documents with PageMaker 7
in Windows 2000 and to my horror, have encountered black screens after
keeping the program open for a while. I have never had this problem with
FrameMaker, even when I opened FrameMaker 5.5.6 documents in FrameMaker 6 (I
don't know about FrameMaker 7).
PageMaker and QuarkXPress are both desktop publishing applications that are
appropriate for laying out brochures, newsletters, flyers, and even books
and magazines. It is not appropriate for technical manuals. FrameMaker is
much more appropriate for long technical documents.
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