RE: InDesign vs. Frame

[Liz Goodwin <Liz -dot- Goodwin -at- ametek -dot- com>]

Well, as of the last time I looked, InDesign couldn't do:
- cross-references
- TOC
- LOF
- LOT
- indexes
And if it does text insets and variables at all (I simply don't
recall) it does them in a very different way than FrameMaker
does.


InDesign CS2 has always been able to do TOCs and indexes and 
cross-references - just as its predecessor Pagemaker did.  CS3 does 
variables and text inserts. It provides even stronger table creation and 
cell formatting along with running headers & footers, XML import and XSLT 
support. You can create running figure captions and table captions,create 
a style for them and include only that style in another TOC to generate a 
LOF or LOT. All this information is available  on the Adobe website or by 
googling reviews of CS3 InDesign. No need to speculate. The Book feature 
in ID easily handles multiple chapters to create documents well over 300 
pages as evidenced by the 70 and more manuals at 3 sites that our division 
has created using ID.

Liz


Liz Goodwin
Senior Technical Writer and Documentation Specialist
Process Instruments
AMETEK, P&AI, Pittsburgh, PA


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