Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 07, 2004 11:53 PM
While I continue to search for less expensive alternatives to FM, there is one feature of FrameMaker that always brings me back: predictability.
Having used FM for 10 years now and writen many, many manuals, I am still impressed at how predictable FM is, even when I throw fairly complex layouts at it. There are no surprises -- it just works the way it is supposed to. It ran well on a 486 and runs even better on a P4<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
I like OO better than MS Office, but from a professional perspective, neither come close to replacing FM. Once you get your template finalized, you never again need to fiddle with formatting and can get real work done.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 07, 2004 11:53 PMHaving used FM for 10 years now and writen many, many manuals, I am still impressed at how predictable FM is, even when I throw fairly complex layouts at it. There are no surprises -- it just works the way it is supposed to. It ran well on a 486 and runs even better on a P4<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
I like OO better than MS Office, but from a professional perspective, neither come close to replacing FM. Once you get your template finalized, you never again need to fiddle with formatting and can get real work done.
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