Re: Quark vs. FM

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I used to have some dealings with a very large document conversion house. In
their opinion, Quark was from a document conversion standpoint, the DTP from
hell.
At 09:23 AM 11/3/99 -0500, Hutchings, Christa wrote:
>Hi all -
>
>I'm currently looking for a contractor for our Cambridge, U.K. office. I've
>found an agency who has provided me with CVs for several good candidates but
>my people in Cambridge have also located a writer who is claiming that most
>people in Europe use Quark Express instead of FM. This person would be
>finalizing four user's guides for a family of interrelated voice and data
>networking products. The docs are currently developed in FM and include a 28
>page FM book, a 39 page FM book, a 71 page FM book, and a 12 page single FM
>file. The time frame is very short (aren't they always?) and I do not want
>these docs recreated in Quark. We just don't have the time and although I'm
>not personally familiar with Quark, I have reservations about its ability to
>handle this adequately.
>
>Isn't Quark geared more toward very highly-graphical docs rather than the
>structured docs that FM handles with ease? My FM docs do contain a fair
>number of illustrations (line art and screenshots), but they also have a lot
>of text-based procedures, etc. I use imported graphics, generated TOCs and
>indices, and cross-references. Can Quark do all that?
>
>Someone in our Cambridge office has worked with this person before and they
>are quite keen to use him, but I'm feeling a bit uneasy about it. Anyone
>care to share an opinion?
>
>TIA, 
>
>Chris Hutchings
>
>***************************************
>Chris Welch-Hutchings
>Sr. Technical Writer
>Home Wireless Networks, Inc.
>cwhutchings@homewireless.com
>
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