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Subject:Update: Flowcharts with FrameMaker From:Debbie Lemasters <Debbie -dot- Lemasters -at- MARCAM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 16 Aug 1995 16:56:24 -0400
I forwarded the request to someone at Frame.
Here is the response I got.
Debbie Lemasters
debbie -dot- lemasters -at- marcam -dot- com
>I checked our FrameConnections listing (we have it online here)
>and found:
>EasyFlow 8.0 "Charting and diagramming software for DOS PCs"
> Created by HavenTree Software - 613-544-6035
>GRAFkit "Produces publication quality 2-D and 3-D scientific
> engineering, and technical graphs and world maps."
> Created by Centera Information Systems - 303-939-0200
>These both run on PCs. There were a couple of others that either
>ran on Sun and SGI, or just Sun systems.
>-Trish
. . .part of original append from the TECHWR-L list. . .
>>Visio does work with Framemaker and you can just cut and paste from Visio to
>>frame. OLE works well too but sometimes it depends on which part of the
>>picture you click on to launch VISIO.
>>
>>I heard that Visio is a great flowcharting application, but I have no
>>idea if it is compatible with FrameMaker, although I bet it could be imported
>>as a graphic.
