[Framers] FrameMaker vs InDesign

[Robert Lauriston]

Or train someone else to use FrameMaker. Someone who knows InDesign
shouldn't have much trouble learning it.

Wha'ts delivered to the customer? FM files or PDF or ?

On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Mikey Shine <mikeyshine at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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