Re: InDesign woes

["Collin Turner" <straylightsghost -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Aye.

I've used pretty much all "Standard Packages" for our profession and
agree with you completely. Problem is this company has been given the
line "You need to buy me this!" a few too many times. A comparison
matrix and some solid backup would be great.

I think it will be a slow sell. One advantage I have may be the Tech
Communication suite from Adobe.

Thoughts?

-Collin

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:15 PM,  <arroxaneullman -at- aol -dot- com> wrote:
>
>  Hi Collin,
>
>  I use both InDesign (CS3) and FM. ID is good for small, marketing-type
> documents, but fails horribly for longer documentation. If you google around
> and check the archives, you'll find plenty of comments to that effect. It's
> hard to convince the Powers That Be that ID won't work for a 300-page
> document, but all the 'experts' I've encountered would agree that ID is not
> prepared to handle that kind of load.
>
>  Best of luck!
>
>  Arroxane
>
>
>
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Collin Turner <straylightsghost -at- gmail -dot- com>
>  To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
>  Sent: Mon, 12 May 2008 12:39 pm
>  Subject: InDesign woes
>
>
>  Afternoon all!
>
>
>
> InDesign (CS2). My company uses it, I'm learning to hate it. Not that
>
> it's a bad program, I just find it WOEFULLY lacking for documentation.
>
>
>
> Two questions:
>
> 1. Should I bite the bullet and find some workarounds for creating
>
> manuals in ID? (Some pointers would be great!)
>
> 2. Or should I start the painful process of convincing the powers to
>
> invest in other software (Such as Frame?...again, suggestions?)
>
>
>
> I am creating content from 10 - 300 pages in length. Photos,
>
> illustrations, technical, web and pdf content included.
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> -Collin
>
>
>
>
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