[Framers] FrameMaker vs InDesign

[Mikey Shine]

Why?

Well I think the easy answer is that I hear most often from my employer is that I am the ONLY one who can work on this publication and this one publication is a huge part of the contract. Should something either happen to me or my employment with the company, they feel they'd find themselves between the proverbial rock and a hard place fast. The obvious question is why not hire someone else with the necessary experience in Frame to back me upright? I have no idea what their answer would be to that question.

I guess if I'm being totally honest here, what I'm actually looking for is for more pros than cons as to why this document should remain in Frame. In today's workplace, I've found there's nothing quite like the job security of this publication being a native FrameMaker file and I'd really rather not give that up if I don't have to ;-)

> On Jun 22, 2017, at 11:59 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> wrote:
> 
> What do they hope to accomplish by doing that?
> 
> The only sane reason I know would be that you deliver only as PDF
> and/or print and want to be able to tweak it to get more visually
> distinctive results than you get with FrameMaker.
> 
> There's a service that will do the conversion:
> http://www.dtptools.com/product.asp?id=mfid
> 
>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 8:22 AM, Mikey Shine <mikeyshine at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My company has informed me that they’d like to switch one of our major publications over from FrameMaker to InDesign. If conversion is not an option, they wouldn’t be opposed to rebuilding the entire publication from scratch as an InDesign document.
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