Does that mean they'll finally put in more than one level of undo :)!
----- Original Message -----
From: Warren Lewington <wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, December 18, 2003 9:44 pm
Subject: atw: Re: Who Uses What and Legacy Document Conversion (Word > Frame)
> Melanie, the official word from Adobe is that FrameMaker will have to
> continue, though the more flamboyant and glossy print/magazine style
> formatting with graphical edges will be taken up by InDesign...
>
> Great news.
>
> Warren.
> -----Original Message-----
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> [austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of melanie.kendell
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:46 AM
> To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: atw: Re: Who Uses What and Legacy Document Conversion
> (Word >
> Frame)
>
>
>
> Hi Mick
>
> If you're investigating a move away from the evil empire, you may want
> to consider all the alternatives:
>
> Frame - Adobe still can't make up their mind whether they are
> going to
> continue to fully support Frame and therefore it suffers from it's own
> batch of nastiness (eg one level of undo). The biggest issue with
> usingFrame though, is sharing content with Word users in the rest
> of the
> organisation. Conversion from Word is hard enough to make it a one way
> street. There is some support for XML but it is not native to the file
> format.
>
> WebWorks - A lot of work to set up to run properly (if you're used to
> HDK/RoboHelp type tools you might get a bit of a shock as to just how
> much work) but does a decent job when you finally get there.
>
> XML - Probably the best way to future-proof your documentation at the
> moment, but the learning curve is very, very, steep and shouldn't be
> entered into without a good reason to go down that path just yet.
> (Thatsaid, where I am now, we *are* going down that path because
> we have
> large areas of reuse, translation issues, etc, and therefore
> require a
> CMS - and XML is the best thing to feed a CMS). The same issues with
> sharing content with Word users comes up.
>
> OpenOffice - Plays pretty well with Word docs (I've heard that
> only the
> most complicated sometimes need a bit of a fix up - personally I
> haven'tneeded to do any) and seems to be able to be flipped back
> and forward as
> needed. It has an XML-based file format so it is reasonably
> future-proofed. I haven't played with it that extensively but I was
> pleasantly surprised. Not sure what tools are out there to assist
> you to
> pump out different media formats though (HTML, online help, etc).
>
> As for what's the "industry standard", if you go by "what is the most
> used" statistics you'll find that Word wins hands down. If your
> aim is
> to get away from Word I would use different arguments than statistics.
>
> Hope that gives you food for thought.
> -Melanie Kendell
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Mick Washbrooke <MickWashbrooke@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:00 am
> Subject: atw: Who Uses What and Legacy Document Conversion (Word >
> Frame)
>
> > We're considering moving from our currently inadequate Microsft
> Word
> > environment to a FrameMaker/WebWorks Publisher combination for
> our doc
>
> > development platform. To bolster our case for moving away from
> the
> > evilMicrosoft Word, our manager has asked us to come up with
> > statistics on which doc development platform (or combination of
> tools)
> > is considered the "industry standard" in Australia. Does anyone
> know
> > where I might find such
> > statistics?
> > I've also been researching what kind of pre-processing I might
> > have to do on
> > our legacy .rtf files to facilitate the conversion of these docs to
> > FrameMaker; i.e., removing page and section breaks, embedded
> > graphics, etc.
> > If anyone has any tips, they'd be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> > -------------------------------------
> > Mick Washbrooke
> > CITECT
> > Tel: 9496-7432
> > mickwashbrooke@xxxxxxxxxx
> > www.citect.com
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