Frame/InDesign

[Art Campbell]

If you're billing by the hour and your client is loaded down with too
much cash, I'd move to InDesign. It'll take a lot longer both for the
conversion and on-going maintenance, assuming you started with Frame
for it's long document / documentation  / book-handling tools.
;-  )

Art Campbell
               art.campbell at gmail.com
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Martin Ley <martin at em-dash.com> wrote:
> Fellow Framers,
>
> I have a conundrum...
>
> I have a huge body of work for one client done in FrameMaker. They want me to do more work than I can handle alone. I have two colleagues who work with InDesign, who might be able to help out. Would it be easier to migrate all my FrameMaker files to InDesign, or migrate my colleagues to FrameMaker?
>
> An unfair question - particularly as I'm not giving you much detail - but an interesting one! I use both Frame and ID. Horses for courses, normally, but this is an odd situation. The client is after a quick fix, naturally, but neither option would appear to be very straightforward.
>
> The FrameMaker route: I would have to migrate my colleagues to Windows too (we're all Mac users; I'm now really happy running Frame under XP/Parallels Desktop for Mac). Then they would have to learn Frame.
>
> The InDesign route: I would have to spend a lot of time getting fairly complicated Frame book files working in InDesign. Conditional builds, text insets, variables, markers, tables, etc etc.
>
> <light blue touchpaper>
> <stand well back>
> <await flack>
>
> Martin
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