Re: Justifying FM (was About The Cloud: Quick-Read Suggestions)

["William Sherman" <bsherman77 -at- embarqmail -dot- com>]

You don't say, but I bet the options at the time of the previous writer were 
Word or FrameMaker.

If you want everyone to mess with your document, you use Word. If you want 
to maintain control, you use FrameMaker.

I cannot count the number of times I have had to repair manuals that were 
final release ready because someone reviewing them decided to make a change 
using their normal template and mess up the styles.

Now I believe your desire to use InDesign is a secondary issue, and not part 
of the issue that the previous writer faced. So the real question is, should 
I stay with FrameMaker which the company is using or should I convince them 
to drop it and go with InDesign.

Since I haven't used InDesign, I can't comment on the advantages of FM over 
InDesign or the advantages of InDesign over FM.

I can say that it has been a rare event for me to get a company to change 
the documentation tools to what I wanted. Unless you can come up with a very 
good business reason, I doubt you will get them to just dump FM.


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From: "Chris Morton" <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
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Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 4:53 PM
Subject: Justifying FM (was About The Cloud: Quick-Read Suggestions)