[Framers] FM 10 on a new computer.

[Syed Zaeem Hosain]

Oops, sorry - the name is Designer Pro X.

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: Syed Zaeem Hosain 
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2021 1:46 PM
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software. <framers at lists.frameusers.com>; Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
Subject: RE: [Framers] FM 10 on a new computer.

I have not tried Affinity [yet], but I recommend Design Pro X (the perpetual version is at www.magix.com) for page layout as an alternative to InDesign. 

I am not an InDesign user, so please take this recommendation with the appropriate grain of salt - try it for yourself please!

Design Pro X is a perpetual license (Windows only) and there is also a cloud-based subscription version now (Argh - hope this is not an indication of the future!) at www.xara.com.

One thing that seems interesting: Affinity has a native MacOS version. 

And, Designer Pro X has a beta capability to read InDesign IDML files ... Affinity has this support already supposedly. Not sure how important this is for people!

FWIW, I am goint to import an InDesign IDML into Design Pro X this coming week, since I need to add some text to a document, and will see how that goes. If it does not work, I will try Affinity!

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: Framers <framers-bounces+syed.hosain=aeris.net at lists.frameusers.com> On Behalf Of Shmuel Wolfson
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2021 12:46 AM
To: Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>; Framers List <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: Re: [Framers] FM 10 on a new computer.

   You said: If you need only a page layout program, don't buy FrameMaker,
   either.
   What would you suggest if you only need a page layout program,
   Affinity?

   On 12-Aug-21 10:47 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:

If you don't need a help authoring tool, don't buy Flare. Flare's expensive because it takes a lot of development to keep up with customers' evolving requirements.

If you need only a page layout program, don't buy FrameMaker, either.
Its relatively high cost reflects its additional features such as multichannel publishing, DITA, and the FDK.

The document I round-tripped from FrameMaker to Flare and back wasn't particularly simple, it was just consistently formatted.