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From: peter@ernie.NECAM.COM (Peter DiPrete)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Framemaker Pro's and Con's (Summary: Try it!)
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Date: 19 Jul 88 02:24:20 GMT
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> the meantime, why don't you just try it?  Frame will give you a
> copy free (Save disabled) if you send them a tape.  I guess their
> theory is "try it you'll like it" - that's what sold us.

Frame and Interleaf will both send you fully functional copies of their
products usually with a 30 day time-bomb attached.

NEC took advantage of such a trial and concluded that Interleaf, not
Frame had what we wanted in a desktop publishing package.

The desktop and create cabinet of Interleaf smokes Frame.  Any common
graphic, document, even shell script, can be put into the create cabinet
and therefore be available to the user's create menu.  It's a real time
saver.  The desktop was the second major item we jumped up and down over.
This is the fastest way to share information.  Although Frame is more flexible
(in page layout only), Interleaf's graphic capability smokes Frames and the
product _seems_ more solid (it _was_ possible to get Frame into some 
kill -9 situations).

Look at them both, and decide whether the flexibility is needed.   I'll be
happy to post more details if folks want to hear...

Also, Interleaf's pricing just got competitive.

Peter Di Prete
NEC America
(408)922-3829
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