Avraham, In addition to Scott's good advice....
You need to factor in some of your own learning curve time. I seem to remember from earlier posts that you're a relative novice with Frame (forgive me if I'm mis-remembering), but the first time you do any of this stuff, you're likely to take twice as long as the twentieth time you do it. Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson No disclaimers apply. DoD 358 On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM, <qui...@airmail.net> wrote: > It better to estimate the worst case, rather than best case scenario. > You could find that your conversion/merge goes much faster, in which > case you are a hero. If you estimate too little and miss your delivery > date, you are a villain. > > If they go to Word, then there won't be any sharing of content. You will > need to have two separate documents. Word doesn't play nicely with a > complex or complicated format structure. And it isn't suited to > conditional text, or referenced text. > > Scott > > Avraham Makeler wrote: >>> > I will jump in and mention that to avoid a deadline being missed, >> >> Good point of course. I already insisted that this is something that >> they must postpone until */after*/ the delivery deadline. >> >>> > I would estimate the time for completion at 5 pages an hour. >> >> Hmmm .. so that's 20 hours per 100 pages. So for the six books I list, >> that's ~100 hrs = two weeks work. I hope it can be done a bit faster. >> They are not going to like to hear 100 hours. In addition, there is also >> the "possibility of migrating everything from FM to Word" floating >> around at this particular client. So there is never much point in making >> a big investment in FM book restructuring. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Avraham Makeler <amake...@gmail.com >> <mailto:amake...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> > > For a two books to be combined, both approximately 100 pages, and >> if I had no familiarity with them, I would estimate the time for >> completion at 5 pages an hour. >> >> > > and if I had no familiarity with them >> >> The SME said he will be doing the job of marking (in a PDF or in a >> Word export) which blocks are shared. So then I "just" have to put >> those marked blocks in a shared area or add conditional text constructs. >> >> avi >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as art.campb...@gmail.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/art.campbell%40gmail.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.