Mickey,
Where is your company located (if you don't mind my asking)? The thing is,
there are plenty of very experienced FrameMaker users around, as evidenced by
this list. There are probably more that an couple in your area who could pick
up the pieces if (God forbid) you were hit by a bus. I
I once worked doing translation of medical device labels where the users were
using FM and ad hoc formatting everything. Every paragraph was an override.
Makes things hard. So it's not just ID that has that potential problem!
Craig
From: Framers on
behalf of
That is just a result of poor training. It may or may not be the designer's
fault--most likely the company/manager is to blame by not providing the
training or enforcing a professional workflow.
In my experience, once a designer sees the advantages of using based-on
master pages, text styles, and
Rick,
As mentioned, InDesign's indexing definitely lags behind Frame's. If the job
has enough profit built in, I would look at a commercial plug-in/script,
such as IndexMatic or Virginia Systems.
One tip (don't know if this will help): since index entries are hyperlinked,
turn off Auto Update URL
I would give InDesign the edge over tables with its advanced Table, Cell,
and Paragraph styles.
ID can link to the Excel file to pull in updates to the data; with a
third-party plug-in even more features are available, such as two-way edit
updates.
Also, InDesign can import/link to a single workshe
Again, based on painful personal experience I must respectfully disagree.
*Production artists* can be trained to do things in a systematic and
template-based fashion – they're thrilled to find built-in tools to make the
whole process faster, more consistent, and more maintainable. But true
des
