Reply To: InDesign vs. FrameMaker

Indesign and FrameMaker are very different. FM is more “structured”, that is you can really start FM and telling to use the “structured” version. You use can set up a structure and import xml-files to create a manual, a catalog …
ID can do it too, but lots of xml features aren’t that good implemented. Users of ID are more “creating” text, being more “free” in using fonts, styles, colors …
We use both, FM for the really structured texts, ID for the rest of the creative things.