Difference between Adobe Framemaker and Pagemaker

[TacitR]

> Framemaker is more document publishing
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> Pagemaker is more page layout and design
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>What is one and not the other?
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>Thanks in advance for your any assistance. Please email me as well as
>replying (since our news feed can be troublesome).

FrameMaker is a klunky, kludgey, difficult-to-use application that was intended
to set long galleys of text with minimal support for graphics. Over the years
it's gradually acquired the ability to work with graphics in a limited way,
but it's still very much an antiquated application that's really only suitable
for long galleys of text, and not very good at that. I've used it for a long
time, and I find it excessively difficult and lacking even in some of the
basic features that most word processors have. It'sfirmly rooted in the
old-fashioned programming paradigm.

PageMaker is much more flexible, supports color and graphics better, is more
nimble, works more intuitively, and for all its power advantages over Frame is
much easier to use. It still isn't as good as Quark--it lacks some publishing
capabilities of Quark, it crashes more often, it has a few strange bugs in the
way it handles trapping, masking, and color separation, and it takes a bit
longer to do a particular job in PageMaker than in Quark, but it's light-years
ahead of Frame. Frame is essentially useless for high-end four-color work.

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