RE: InDesign vs. Frame

["Wilhelm, Joel" <jwilhelm -at- athenati -dot- com>]

Thanks Rick. My limited reading suggests that InDesign will work on Macs
and Windows systems, and that InDesign is beginning to inherit a lot of
the FrameMaker features. So I'm wondering if Frame 8 will be the end of
the road and if InDesign will do roughly the same work?

Joel 

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Stone [mailto:rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 10:33 AM
To: Wilhelm, Joel; TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: InDesign vs. Frame

Hi Joel

This is a really bizarre question from my perspective. Here's why.

I recently assisted Adobe by staffing their booth at the recent STC
Conference in Minneapolis. If there were a single question that I heard
over and over and over again, it was the one you are asking. It was as
if in the keynote session, someone proclaimed that InDesign was deemed
to be "The" 
replacement application for Framemaker.

Unfortunately, I'm ill equipped to say whether this is true or not. But
my rudimentary understanding of things tells me InDesign is a layout
application. Something one might use for Newsletters or Brochures. And
Framemaker is for "long documents" as I understand it. Something along
the lines of a book ranging from 50 pages upwards to an unknown limit.
So I see these as two different tools for two entirely different
purposes.

I was with another gentleman that had much more of an understanding of
InDesign than I have. He was shocked about it as well. However, he did
say that some changes occurred with the CS3 version that make it more
feasible for creating something that might span 150 pages or so.

Cheers... Rick :)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilhelm, Joel" <jwilhelm -at- athenati -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:18 AM
Subject: InDesign vs. Frame


> Any thoughts on using InDesign for manuals (150 pages or so)?
>
> Does it do what Frame does? I'd like to hear from users if they are on
> the list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joel 


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