Hi Martin, Just to clarify following on from Steve's email below, InDesign (both CS4 and CS5) does now have conditional text, cross-referencing, text variables and has had table editing for quite some time. Also, by changing a program preference it can import by reference Word and Excel files much like FrameMaker's text insets. It can also place (import) other InDesign files too.
Also Chris Kitchener now works in Seattle not the UK. He was replaced by Jonathan Ferman who I believe has also just moved on by I've no idea where and I don't know who his replacement is yet. Kind regards, Philip Odell www.philipodell.co.uk It can import by reference Word, Excel, and other InDesign files. -----Original Message----- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Rickaby Sent: 13 January 2011 16:43 To: Martin Ley; framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Frame/InDesign At 14:56 +0000 11/1/11, Martin Ley wrote: >The InDesign route: I would have to spend a lot of time getting fairly complicated Frame book files working in InDesign. Conditional builds, text insets, variables, markers, tables, etc etc. Martin: I use both too. Many of the features you list above (conditionality, insets, variables, markers) are not implemented, or are implemented differently, in InDesign, afaik. You have a difficult problem; for me the above might well be the killer issue. InD will do you lovely typography, but for my money it's still not quite a player in the tech book world. Also afaik, it still doesn't even support cross-references, or at least CS3 didn't. I use it, happily, for non-technical books, but I'd not like to work with it for link-rich long-doc material. As both products are from Adobe, as as there might be license fees for them whichever way you go, why not try and rope in an Adobe product specialist to advise you? In the UK Chris Kitchener used to be the main man, certainly for InD, but I don't know whether he's still with Adobe. Or possibly one of their added-value vendors, like Mekon (Sutton)? <mailto:chris.kitche...@adobe.com> HTH; just my view. -- Steve _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as pjod...@btinternet.com. Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/pjodell%40btinternet.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 framers@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.
