Re: InDesign and Frame

[jeremy@xxxxxxxxx (Jeremy H. Griffith)]

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:00:38 -0500, Kevin McLauchlan
<KMcLauchlan@chrysalis-its.com> wrote:

>That's certainly part of it. For another part, check the list archives 
>for mention of how easy and seamless is the process of exporting 
>files from Frame to ... say... Word.
>
>My boss -- who had fixated on Frame for me at the time I was 
>hired, not because he'd ever met it, but because he'd previously 
>dealt with a contract writer who used it -- wanted to know why I 
>didn't circulate my texts for review in Word format.  I thought 
>about various things I could say, but then simply forwarded to 
>him a thread from either this list or the Adobe Forum, where some 
>poor fools had agonized about the horrors of saving to Word 
>and RTF format, and where the gurus had responded with not 
>much more than sympathy.

Really?  Guess we missed that thread... because we really do
make the process of getting accurate renditions of Frame docs
in Word very, very seamless.  We have numerous customers doing
the very thing your boss asked you to do, daily.  It's a very
good idea; you let the writer use the professional tool, and
the reviewers use the, ah, tool they are *used* to using.  It
also has the side benefit of keeping the reviewers from munging
up the "real" document, your Frame copy...  And all for only a
fraction of what Frame itself costs, a mere $295 per seat; it
usually pays for itself the first week of its use.  See:
  http://www.omsys.com/dcl/mif2rtf.htm
for the full story.

>Of course, he then asked me if I wanted to switch back to Word.
>I said "Hell no."

But if you could satisfy his perfectly legitimate need for a
Word review copy, your argument would be ever so much more
persuasive to him, wouldn't it?  <bg>

-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
   (jeremy@omsys.com)     http://www.omsys.com/
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