jonas@his.se (Jonas Mellin) (09/26/90)
I have read the summary about Framemaker. Has anyone a summary about
Interleaf? If not, could you please mail me what you think about
Interleaf vs Framemaker. I mostly interrested in the functionality on
SUN SPARC stations.
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pierrot@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Tatjana Heuser) (10/25/90)
jonas@his.se (Jonas Mellin) writes: >I have read the summary about Framemaker. Has anyone a summary about >Interleaf? If not, could you please mail me what you think about >Interleaf vs Framemaker. I mostly interrested in the functionality on >SUN SPARC stations. Title: Interleaf pulls ahead of Framemaker Subtit: They were neck to neck until Interleaf came out with 4.0 Author: Alan Southerton Published: Unix World December 1988 -tatjana -- Pierrot le fou | UUCP: pierrot@tubopal.UUCP (pierrot@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de) Tatjana Heuser | ...!unido!tub!opal!pierrot (Europe) D-1000 Berlin 30 | ...!pyramid!tub!opal!pierrot (World) Ettaler Str.2 | BITNET: pierrot%tubopal@DB0TUI11.BITNET (saves $$$)
npn@cbnewsl.att.com (nils-peter.nelson) (10/26/90)
The issue referenced has 15 pages of comparisons of Interleaf, FrameMaker and Ventura.
lark@tivoli.UUCP (Lar Kaufman) (10/26/90)
In article <2118@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de> pierrot@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Tatjana Heuser) writes: >jonas@his.se (Jonas Mellin) writes: >>I have read the summary about Framemaker. Has anyone a summary about >>Interleaf? ... > >Title: Interleaf pulls ahead of Framemaker >Subtit: They were neck to neck until Interleaf came out with 4.0 >Author: Alan Southerton >Published: Unix World December 1988 > >-tatjana >-- >Pierrot le fou | UUCP: pierrot@tubopal.UUCP (pierrot@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de) >Tatjana Heuser | ...!unido!tub!opal!pierrot (Europe) >D-1000 Berlin 30 | ...!pyramid!tub!opal!pierrot (World) >Ettaler Str.2 | BITNET: pierrot%tubopal@DB0TUI11.BITNET (saves $$$) Hmmm, I think something a little more current might be more useful: Title: Prowess on the Desktop Subtit: Frame 2.0 takes its top-rated word processing tools past newsletters to WYSIWYG books, journals, and manuals Author: Art Campbell Published: Unix World March 1990 (cover blurb: "FRAMEMAKER: KING OF UNIX DESKTOP PUBLISHING?") Title: Interleaf TPS and FrameMaker In a Technical Environment Authors: Jon Glickman and Scott Hatch Subtit: A lack of published comparisons of the leading workstation publishing packages has led two technical writers to compare Interleaf and FrameMaker. Three categories of tests were performed: objective tests, subjective tests, and a comparison of advanced features. Emphasis is on features that would be used every day in a technical publications department publishing for an engineering audience. Comments: The authors tested Interleaf TPS 4.0 and FrameMaker 2.0 on a Sun 3/60 running Sunviews. The authors seemed to find the performance of both products satisfactory, with these concluding comments: Interleaf performs well with structured documents. It allows writers to quickly configure templates. FrameMaker performs well with complex document formats. It has highly customizable master pages and text columns. A rather statesman-like summation, I thought. Published: 37th International Technical Communication Conference, Santa Clara California May 22, 1990 Notes: FrameMaker 2.1x is announced (Unix Today! October 1, 1990) supporting OSF/Motif and the X-Window environment. Frame will be coming out with FrameMaker 3.0 soon, and Interleaf will be coming out with Interleaf TPS 5.0. I am currently evaluating FrameMaker 2.1x and Interleaf TPS 4.0, along with available alternatives - IslandWrite/Draw/Paint and Avalon Publisher. Under consideration as a future supplemental tool (not yet available on Unix platforms) is Author/Editor. All of these packages are deserving of careful consideration and evaluation. Considered and rejected (for our purposes) were Microsoft Word (only on Xenix platforms, apparently) and Word Perfect (not comfortable with WP's user interface). -lar
frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick) (10/27/90)
In a similar vein, has (or could) anyone compare Framemaker with Ventura?
(now that both are available for the Mac)
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