InDesign as a replacement for Framemaker

[Art Campbell]

As interesting as the thread on XML is (and it is), the OP didn't ask
anything about, or related to, XML. So we're experiencing some basic
thread drift.

He's asking about moving from a technical publishing tool to a
design-driven tool, but not providing any details on why, or what
features he uses, or needs, or any other useful details.

So other than saying that "Yes, you can do it, but unless you require
something that ID offers that FM doesn't it probably isn't worth the
bother," it's really difficult to go further than that. IMHO, of
course.

Art


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On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 9:14 AM, Michael Müller-Hillebrand
<mmh at cap-studio.de> wrote:
> Am 12.09.2008 um 10:44 schrieb Amnon Yaish:
>
>> Does ID have
>> anything comparable to a FM edd ?
>
>
> A FrameMaker EDD is: validating structure rules combined with context-
> aware, automatic, ready-for-print formatting.
>
> InDesign has nothing like that.
>
> If you (just) use an EDD to format XML documents for publishing (not
> editing nor authoring!), you can achieve the same effect in InDesign
> (although implemented totally different) by using an XSL
> transformation to add special attributes to the XML document which
> instruct InDesign to select certain formats. Further thing are
> possible using XML rules. But _- again -- that only applies to mere
> publishing tasks.
>
> - Michael Müller-Hillebrand
>
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