[Framers] FrameMaker vs InDesign

[Mikey Shine]

They’ve had two people trained previously but both have since moved on to other opportunities...


> On Jun 23, 2017, at 2:03 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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