[Framers] FrameMaker vs InDesign

[Robert Lauriston]

That's one argument for sticking with Frame: it might take a lot more
time to update and maintain in InDesign.

Though if the company has multiple InDesign users, they may have a
handle on that. The heavy InDesign users I know mostly use it in a
pretty template-driven manner, taking content written in Word and
assembling it into books to be printed and/or ebooks to be sold.

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Tori Muir <tmuir at spot-on-creative.com> wrote:
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> Regrettably, that isn't necessarily true. A lot of the folks who use InD are first and foremost *designers*, and have no qualms about hand-formatting everything on the page to produce a lovely composition. It can be very difficult to get users with that mindset to switch to a structure-based/formats-driven viewpoint. Additionally, a huge number of the InD users I've worked with/trained in long document work can't even set up an auto-bulleted paragraph, let alone autonumbering, and I shudder to think what would happen if they tried indexing.
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> I would qualify the below statement by saying that if they are already using InD the way one needs to use Frame, you'll have no problem training them. If, on the other hand, their preferred approach is to use InD the way one might use Illustrator, you're in for a rough ride. I'll never forget the time a client had me update the InD files for their product catalog: 235 pages containing ~800 products, a TOC and an  index, without a single paragraph/character format defined, no generated TOC or index, no book files, not even auto-connected text flows from page to page. The most advanced thing they'd done was add a page number to the master page.  But the catalog *looked* lovely!
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> Tori Muir
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> On 6/23/17, 11:03 AM, "Framers on behalf of Robert Lauriston" <framers-bounces+tmuir=spot-on-creative.com at lists.frameusers.com on behalf of robert at lauriston.com> wrote:
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>     Or train someone else to use FrameMaker. Someone who knows InDesign
>     shouldn't have much trouble learning it.