NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #20/NN_1992_20.iso/spool/comp/unix/sysv386/14216

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From: [e-mail] (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: framemaker
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Date: 8 Sep 92 19:27:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: ssc.1992Sep08.192704.2575
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Organization: SSC, Inc.,  Seattle, WA
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I would be interested in hearing from someone who has used Framemaker and
Ventura.  Although I am a UNIX person I use Ventura (on an MS-DOG system)
to do newsletters, advertising flyers and catalogs.  Let me explain why so
the comparison will make sense.

We use troff to do our products (pocket-sized books and reference cards)
because it is universal and we have our own macros to handle our strange
format.

For the others we do art in Corel Draw and put the whole thing together in
Ventura.  Ventura isn't really the right tool for one page flyers but most
of our work is much longer like our 32-page catalog.  The capability of
keeping source documents in their original form (ASCII files generally and
EPS for the art) is very important to us.  That means that we can update
documents on the source system (generally a UNIX system) and not have to
do significant work to layout the next version.

I would like to more the complete solution over to a UNIX-based system.
Corel is available for UNIX platforms and Ventura is supposed to be
available for Suns with their 5.0 release (with no date as yet).  So, the
choice is to wait and get Ventura (which I am not 100% happy with) or
change gears now.  Suggestions are appreciated.
--
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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