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[Robert Lauriston]

The least painful way to get Publisher docs into FrameMaker is
probably via Word, though it might be easier to start from scratch in
FM and cut and paste.

FrameMaker is the #1 desktop publishing program for tech docs, though
as a single-sourcing platform it's probably tied with Flare and there
are a bunch of runners-up.

InDesign is the DTP standard outside of tech docs. It nearly killed
Quark and is the standard for professional color prepress.

I doubt there are any reliable market share statistics on MS
Publisher, as most of its users got it as part of a MS Office suite.

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Ken Poshedly <poshedly at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Second (and totally unrelated), is it possible to directly import MS
> Publisher files into FrameMaker docs? Or must you first convert the PUB
> files into HTML (or MS Word or something else) and then do a file import?
> Does anyone here have some background in this?
>
> Finally, it has been my long-time understanding from informal conversations
> with other tech writers over the past 30 years that MS Publisher is used by
> very, very few companies today, and that FM is by far King of the Hill, with
> others (such as Quark Express and the ubiquitous MS Word) filling in the
> middle area. Is there a pie-chart website that might help me out with this?