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Re: # Frame Users

Subject: Re: # Frame Users
From: "Brian Das" <brian_das -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 03:37:46 +0000


From: "Charles J. Reid":


Does anyone know approximately (ball park) how many Framemaker users there are in the US and perhaps world wide? In a start up where most engineers use Word, technical communicators have to present the facts to justify the expenditure for the Adobe doc production suite.

Hi Charles,

I don't know how the number of users will help make the business case (which doesn't mean that it won't -- it just means I don't know how it would!)

Off the top of my head -- One of the main benefits of Frame over Word is the ease with which you can manage long and/or multi-part documents with dynamic cross-references. Another is that styles and formats (including numbering) are stable and predictable. Also, in Frame you can work in SGML and XML, so re-using well-structured content in another media is a bit easier.

Drawbacks include the cost of the skill-set -- Frame competency costs more than MS Word competency. Also, you can't pass around a Frame document electronically for review unless all your reviewers have Frame -- you need to convert to PDF first.

There must be articles or white papers out there that run a more thorough comparison -- anyone know of any?

Cheers,
Brian

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