Hi Laurie, Not a heavy duty FM user; however, run FM 7 under Parallels w/XP on a MACBook Pro. Typed and edited a 300+ page book for a friend recently. No complaints.
Gregory Eckrich, 708-862-7180 gweckr...@wowway.com On 5-May - 2009, at 11:16 AM, Laurie Little wrote: > Hello from beautiful sunny Toronto! > > I need to recommend a tool for a client who works on Mac, and it's > between > FM (via Bootcamp/Parallels/whatever) and Indesign for Mac (major > functional > requirements are conditions/variables/text insets). > > We're pushing for Frame, since we're the ones who will be > converting the old > docs/maintaining etc., but the client (thinks he) will be doing > some minor > maintenance and therefore prefers a Mac (and preferably an open- > source) > solution if one can be found, so my boss wants to make sure we have > all info > to present. > > Since Indesign CS4 *can* do conditional text/xrefs/variables, I > need to > assemble a good argument for not using it :-D >> From what I've read in various forums (fora?) and blogs etc., >> Frame is still > the preferred tool for user docs, regardless of platform. > > Just to round out our proposal though, I need to include/eliminate > any other > alternatives. The ones I have looked at don't seem to do > conditional text > (which would be critical to this project). Does anyone know of another > (Mac/open source) tool that handles conditional text, other than > Frame and > Indesign? > > Thanks for any advice/warnings/tips/rants/etc, > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Laurie Little > Words That Work > www.words-tw.com > 905-947-1557 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as gweckr...@wowway.com. > > Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com > or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/ > gweckrich%40wowway.com > > Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.