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What is Different between Framemaker and Indesign


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Today I am going to explain about the basic features of the Framemker and Indesign. We can not say which tool is good and which is bad. Both tools have their specific features for specific uses. It is up to us which we can chose based on our requirements.

Adobe Framemaker

Adobe FrameMaker is a complete solution for authoring, enriching, managing, and publishing technical documentation. Author with XML/DITA and DTD support. 
Manage content using content management systems and Dropbox. 
Collaborate with PDF-based reviews, on mobile devices. Easily publish to multiple channel and  formats within from FrameMaker at no extra cost, without any plug-ins.

Adobe Indesign


Adobe InDesign is a desktop publishing application. It is used to create works such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books. InDesign also publish content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Graphic designers and production artists are the principal users, creating and laying out periodical publications, posters, and print media. It also supports export to EPUB and SWF formats to create e-books and digital publications, including digital magazines, and content suitable for consumption on tablet computers. In addition, InDesign supports XML, style sheets and other coding markup, making it suitable for exporting tagged text content for use in other digital and online formats. 

Comparison of Framemaker & Indesign

Feature
InDesign
FrameMaker
Adding pages when typing, importing, or pasting content
Learning curve
Easy
Import comments from PDF for editing in creating application for efficient editing workflow
Requires third-party plug-in
Yes
Text variables for running headers, footers, and user-defined text
No text wrap; don't support multiple character styles
Yes
Multiple TOCs, lists, and indexes, entries create hyperlinks in PDFs
Possible
Easy
Paragraph, character, table, and object styles
Supports many more text attributes, can base styles on others
Fewer attributes, can't base styles on others
Cross-references for text become hyperlinks in PDFs
Cross-document x-refs are fragile
Cross-doc x-refs are stable
Multi-file books, and operations across book files, like find/replace, spell check, synchronize settings
Yes
Yes
Manage and publish books within books for complex document sets
No
Yes
Importing many text and graphic file formats, and maintaining links to sources
Yes
Yes
Importing content from word-processing software like MS Word
Yes
Yes
Updating multiple instances of linked content
Yes
Yes
Managing styles when importing and loading documents
Yes
No
Managing styles used and unused
Yes
No
Master pages that control body page layouts
Yes
Yes
Conditional text for outputting different versions
Yes
Yes
Auto-numbered and bulleted lists
Yes
Yes
Page, section, chapter numbering within documents and across books
Yes
Yes
Anchored frames in text flows
Yes
Yes
Keystroke shortcuts for almost all commands
Yes
No
Saved workspaces
Yes
Yes
Professional drawing tools with layers and transparency
Yes
Basic tools only, no layers, no transparency

Advantages of FrameMaker:

FrameMaker provides you the most pristine Print and PDF output, whether you need to provide printed documentation to your customers. 

FrameMaker enables you to conduct Shared PDF Reviews and import the comments back into the FrameMaker source files

With FrameMaker you can leverage the benefits of “Structured” Authoring.

FrameMaker provides two main authoring environments in a single product, namely unstructured and structured authoring. 

The benefits of authoring in “structured” mode are many, including the ability to enforce authoring rules; a simple guided-authoring environment for authors; context-sensitive formatting; one template for multiple document types; real-time structure validation and more. 

FrameMaker provides full DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) support
Finally, if you are migrating to the DITA standard and need a DITA-friendly authoring tool, there’s no better product than FrameMaker.

FrameMaker has full support for DITA authoring, and generating Print and PDF is built-in, which means no manual coding or using XSL-FO is required for generating Print or PDF output.

Conversion

Converting FrameMaker content to InDesign, or InDesign content to FrameMaker, is imperfect at best, and round-tripping is even more imperfect. 
Because converting back-and-forth is complicated, it's important to make a choice rather than hoping to exchange files between users by converting them from one to the other. 
In other words, collaboration requires that all users use the same application. This could mean that all users create in a neutral application, like MS Word, or a plain-text application, and then import the completely-finished content into the chosen winner.

With respect to the above comparison table, you can chose the which tool is perfect for you depending on the nature of work you do.

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