<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>Laura...I just ran into this at PGE in their Academy (training dept). I believe they feel that PP converts easily to simulations, which is why they are going forward with that for some courses. I agree with you that it is not the right tool for large courses and not all types of documentation. Good luck convincing the powers at be. <br>
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From: laura <laura@lavadome.net><br>
To: framers <framers@lists.frameusers.com><br>
Sent: Tue, Jul 10, 2012 10:20 am<br>
Subject: Support needed!<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt> Dear all
Please tell me I'm not going mad or being unreasonable.
Have just come into work to find that the company which acquired us a
few months ago wants me to use Powerpoint for creating datasheets
instead of InDesign (definite) and "a more flexible tool" (Word) instead
of our beloved Framemaker (proposed).
I could cry. I am the only tech author in the company of about 100
people and the marketing department used PP for datasheets which they
say is "adequate" for the job. This all arose on Friday when someone
else needed to edit a version of my ID files when I was on holiday. Now
I come in to find:
"...For more technical documentation (e.g. product manuals) then I
understand the argument for use of a more specialist tool - but even
here we can use more flexible tools."
Such as????? I have long user guides with masses of conditional text.
Just let Word have a shot at that. In fact, they were trying to do just
that before I started this job 4 years ago - and it wasn't working.
Sorry to clog up the forum with this but I think of you all as friends
who feel the same way about FM as I do.
How do I persuade them otherwise? In fact, it's just one person really
I think I need to convince - not in my office.
I can just about cope with datasheets in PP but using anything other
than Frame for long user guides is unthinkable.
L
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