On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 18:32, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have friend who's interested in trying out free software. Her > immediate request is for something to replace Framemaker. It seems she's > involved in the use of Framemaker to make "books" for salesmen. > > I have little more information about her application at present, but I > expect to speak to her in detail in the near future, and it would help > immensely to have a bit of familiarity with what's available. Pointers > to reviews, names of packages, etc., most welcome. > > So. what Linux tools (or, if need be, free tools that also work on > Windows) are available that have a chance of accomplishing what > Framemaker does? > > Myself, I hand-code HTML in emacs when I want to create a document. Or > write a custom C program to generate postscript code. But I think she's > enough of an end-user that she'd appreciate this method. In any case, > the salesmen wouldn't.
KWord has a bit of FrameMaker-like functionality - at least more than MS Word. But the real FrameMaker competitor is Scribus. http://www.scribus.net/ Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
