So Long and Thanks for the Fish -- Migrating from FrameMaker to Flare

[Mike Wickham]

I'm in that crowd, too. My books go to press and I use Acrobat to 
generate my PDF. I'm sure third party choices could work well, too, but 
I prefer Acrobat. (That could change if Adobe takes it to a 
subscription-only model.)

Mike Wickham

On 10/29/2013 10:14 AM, Steve Rickaby wrote:
> At 21:02 -0500 28/10/13, Mike Wickham wrote:
>
>> Nobody needs PDF unless they want to create documents that will retain fonts and formatting to display identically on every computer. But if you want that, you want PDF-- and you probably want Acrobat because it is the most stable and full-featured.
> Those of us who take books to press are tied to PDF/Acrobat, as it's become pretty much the mandatory pre-press format.
>