[Framers] FrameMaker vs InDesign

[Craig Ede]

Mickey,


Where is your company located (if you don't mind my asking)? The thing is, there are plenty of very experienced FrameMaker users around, as evidenced by this list. There are probably more that an couple in your area who could pick up the pieces if (God forbid) you were hit by a bus. I often tell my handlers the same thing about my own job. The nice thing is, after working for a particular business for a while, your expertise goes far beyond the tool and delves into the particular business. As a result one becomes more valuable than any potential replacement making replacement an unlikely scenario barring some cataclysm. FM mavens get paid fairly well, but the advantages of the tool usually make that a very worthwhile investment.


Craig


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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
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>>>
>>>> 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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