[Framers] Frame 2017 Export to Word

[Robert Lauriston]

SmartDocs is a client-server structured authoring system similar to
Author-it, Paligo, or one of the high-end DITA systems that typically
use Oxygen or XMetal as clients. It just uses Word as the client.

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 4:40 PM, A Craig <acraig at shaw.ca> wrote:
> But you're still using Word - which I find highly unreliable, especially for larger docs. And Word doesn't handle images nearly as well as Frame, especially if you're using icons in instructions.
>
> What kind of price tag for SmartDocs?
>
> Alison
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> From: Framers [mailto:framers-bounces+acraig=shaw.ca at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Keith Soltys
> Sent: December 21, 2017 2:16 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Framers] Frame 2017 Export to Word
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> Agreed on using SmartDocs. It's Snapshots feature for managing conditional text and variables in a document is far superior to Word's as is its snippet management.
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> Regards
> Keith
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> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:17 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
> wrote:
>
>> They could use SmartDocs and have the best of both worlds.
>>
>> Actually, the conditional stuff would probably be a lot better than
>> unstructured FrameMaker.
>>
>> On 12/19/17, A Craig <acraig at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> > ... I was at a job interview today and it sounds like they could
>> > really
>> use the
>> > Conditional aspects of Frame in order to deliver various flavours of
>> > the same manuals. However, they have done without a tech writer for
>> > a while
>> and
>> > like the fact that their engineers can simply go into a Word doc and
>> > make changes themselves. ...
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