Quite a few factors go into a full soup to nuts translation of a document. Software used is rarely one of them, as that can be obtained or worked around as necessary. One of the big gotchas is cleanliness of source language files. My guess is that your anecdotal reference pertains to usual use of the two tools, where Frame is often used by professional writers who adhere to style and templates while Word... well... we all have heard horror stories.
I'm happy to chat with you at length and answer any specific questions you might have. Bill On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Roy Lewis <roy_g_lewis at yahoo.com> wrote: > I apologize for going off topic but can anyone point to figures that > compares translation costs for Framemaker documents compared to MSWord > documents. Someone told me Frame was generally cheaper, but they could not > supply a source for the data. > Thanks, > Roy > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as techcommdood at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/techcommdood%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > -- Bill Swallow Twitter: @techcommdood Blog: http://techcommdood.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/techcommdood -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20110224/789c8ccc/attachment.html>