Re: ANN: Need database for publishing

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:03 PM 2/13/02 -0600, Rick Quatro wrote:
>Hello Framers,
>
>One of the underappreciated features of FrameScript is the ability of a
>script to query a database directly through the ODBC control panel in
>Windows. The returned records can then be imported into FrameMaker and
>formatted by the script.

But UniMerge (price about $600) does the same thing much better, and can 
also issue ODBC queries. UniMerge uses a FrameMaker template that includes 
complete formatting instructions, as well as Unimerge commands that provide 
all sorts of processing options, thus it is much more powerful than 
anything possible with a customized Framescript. UniMerge produces, as its 
output, a MIF file, which, when opened in FrameMaker, is fully formatted 
and ready to deliver.
UniMerge can operate on data extracted live from a database, and works 
equally well on an ASCII data extract files produced by exporting selected 
records from a database or spreadsheet in a comma-delimited or fixed-field 
format.

That's not to say that a Framescript might be useful in a limited number of 
applications, but almost certainly it would fall short of what's needed in 
most database publishing applications.


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