RE: Adobe Certified Newsletter -- notice about FrameMaker

["Fred Ridder" <docudoc@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My history with Word is pretty similar. My very first computer was
a Fat Mac (512KB RAM) that I bought specifically to run Word 1.0
for my very first freelance tech writing project (for which I never
got paid, but that's another story...). I really loved Word through
v3.0 on the Mac. But then I had to start using PC versions of the
tool--first v5.0 for DOS, which was crude but fine for a non-WYSIWIG
word processor, then various early Windows versions, which were
also pretty good--and it became more of a love-hate relationship.
And ever since I was bitten *hard* by the bugs in the master
document feature, the love part of that has continued to fade.
The last version of Word that I actually liked (and still keep installed
on my system) is Word 95. Ever since then, it's felt like I've been
working around Word's features rather than through them.

But do I love FrameMaker? Well, no. There are still a bunch of Word
editing features that I sorely miss in Frame. But I love the fact that
Frame doesn't leave me in the lurch, and lets me build modular
documents wit confidence. On the rare occasions when something
really strange has happened to a Frame doc, there has always been
some relatively straightforward fix.

> From: "Dauphin, William M." <william.dauphin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: framers@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Adobe Certified Newsletter -- notice about FrameMaker
> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 09:55:22 -0400
>
> >>We should also not rule out MS Word without giving
> it a serious look. ... Word isn't that difficult to deal with.<<
>
> Depends on what you're trying to do with it. I'd say I've given Word a
> "serious look": I've been using it since my Dad bought a copy of the very
> first version for his original 128k Mac, years before Windows even existed.
> Since then I've used every version of Word, and I'm still occasionally
> called on (i.e., forced) to use it for my professional work. I think Word 
> is
> a *fabulous* word processor -- I've never been a Word or MS basher -- but
> it's pretty bad at the work I usually do with FrameMaker: publishing long,
> complex, multi-chapter books for print and PDF output.
>
> Of course, it's not clear to me that any of the reasonable alternatives to
> Frame are any better than Word at doing the things I love Frame for, which
> is why I'm [a] happy that I'm not Mac based (at work; all my home machines
> are Macs) and [b] hoping for good news at the Chautauqua!
>
> -Bill
>
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