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Actually, we considered InDesign on Mac OS X. Having it on Linux along with the other Adobe tools would be even more interesting.
There is an interesting historical problem. When Frame Technology unveiled FrameMaker years ago on UNIX machines, it proved that the UNIX workstations could be used for engineering documentation as well as design. If someone created proper corporate templates, you could have amazingly high quality, organized documents from engineers. (Okay, you needed a technical editor to compensate for injenear illiteracy.) The engineers were even motivated to do so.
The same has not happened with InDesign. I don't see it being adopted as the engineer's documentation standard.
Actually, too many engineers have migrated to Word. They are completely surprised when page breaks show up in weird places, character glyphs overlap, and then discover that what they displayed and what they printed are not quite the same. (No one explains to them font metrics in different coordinate systems.) The paper they were submitting at under 20 pages suddenly is 21 pages, and re-editing is in order. This never happened with FrameMaker; I'm sure it doesn't happen with InDesign. - Posted by: asky Posted on: 11/03/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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