InDesign vs. FrameMaker
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I am beginning a career as a technical writer. It was recommended to me that I learn InDesign and FrameMaker. I went through the “InDesign: Essential Training” course on Lynda.com (which was very good by the way) and I could definitely see why technical writers would need to know how to use InDesign. To my untrained eye, however, I can’t see why Adobe has two seperate programs for designing documents. Could someone explain to me the key differences between InDesign and FrameMaker and when I would use one or the other?
Thanks.
Levi
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Indesign and FrameMaker are very different. FM is more “structured”, that is you can really start FM and telling to use the “structured” version. You use can set up a structure and import xml-files to create a manual, a catalog …
ID can do it too, but lots of xml features aren’t that good implemented. Users of ID are more “creating” text, being more “free” in using fonts, styles, colors …
We use both, FM for the really structured texts, ID for the rest of the creative things. -
Okay, here is the definitive discussion, based on Levi’s original great question:
https://creativepro.com/better-framemaker-indesign.php
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