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Along the lines Gene suggests, you may find that a HAT that can import both Frame and Word docs and export to PDF, RTF, and HTML would provide you with the best solution to meet your customers' needs.
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From: techwr-l-bounces+lporrello=illumina -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lporrello=illumina -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On Behalf Of Gene Kim-Eng
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 10:42 AM
To: Federico Viani
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: Reasons to adopt FrameMaker
In your situation I would not change current documents that are
working well in Word to FrameMaker or vice-versa, but would keep all
documents in their existing forms until I had thoroughly researched
needs and options.
Gene Kim-Eng
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:01 AM, Federico Viani
<Federico -dot- Viani -at- telit -dot- com> wrote:
> After the acquisition of another company's branch, we came across a bunch of documentation which is in FrameMaker format and we are wondering whether this could be a chance for us to adopt such a popular tech writing tool, without actually grasping the real need of such a solution in our scenario, except we're in a hurry of editing the new documentation in a smoother way. Exporting techniques to .doc format are being under inspection. The free ones at least, they don't seem to provide a real method.
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