[Framers] FrameMaker 2017 - Pros, cons and import from Word

[bernard at publishingsmarter.com]

>From a day-to-day author perspective it will feel similar enough. You have menu reorganization of course, but the F7 key will be your friend (press it almost anywhere for a quick contextual search of functions). For the import of Word the biggest issues are how styles are used in the source (if not at all, then the issue is starting with crappy semantic markup of content), images, xrefs, tables. However, it works pretty well. I got to demo it a few times at events and conferences, and I've used the import myself a decent amount.

Again, boils down to the source quality for it.

Bernard


----- Original Message -----
From: caroline.tabach at gmail.com
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Sent: 4/25/18 7:14 AM
Subject: [Framers] FrameMaker 2017 - Pros, cons and import from Word

> Hi
> 
> I used FrameMaker 2015 in my previous position.
> 
> My new employers offered to buy FrameMaker 2017.
> 
> 1. What are the main differences between the versions?
> 
> 2. What is hard to get used to?
> 
> 3. I have to import their guides from Word. I did this in my previous job
> many years ago. I understand the workflow is much better now. The guide is
> a 390 page word doc, the others are much smaller. Tip, Tricks, hints
> anything to beware of?
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> -- 
> Caroline Tabach
> Technical Writer
> e-mail: caroline.tabach at gmail.com
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