Advantages of Adobe FrameMaker over Word

When it comes to technical documentation, Word is only suitable up to a point. This video showcases how Adobe FrameMaker effortlessly addresses areas that Word struggles with, giving you a powerful and efficient tool for easily creating and publishing technical content. Use the table of contents (TOC) below to skip to specific sections in the video.

Table of contents:

Introduction to FrameMaker - 00:10
Who should use FrameMaker? - 02:50
What you can create with FrameMaker - 04:27
FrameMaker – Tool of choice for complex technical documentation - 06:27
What is Word? - 09:03
What is Adobe FrameMaker? - 12:41
Limitations of Microsoft Word - 16:42
Strengths of FrameMaker - 25:53
Standards-based structured content - 36:15
Summarizing the benefits of FrameMaker - 43:07
Make the move to FrameMaker - 45:06
Some of Adobe's bigger customers include... - 48:30
700,000 users across 30,000 organizations! - 49:06
Conclusion - 50:23

[noskings]

Perhaps the greatest example of a 50 minute video that could've been 15...
I still don't know what FrameMaker actually does other than apparently it is some sort of factory that turns out any type of truck I need...

[sabrishalalfeh]

Framemaker would be perfect if there’s some care in development in math texts or even just getting closer to LaTeX, because LaTeX is hard too much to use

[xnavyro]

I hired into a job which uses FrameMaker as it's standard. After spending multiple months, I haven't spent months trying to learn Word, and although it may be the "standard", for my usage, I'm content with using Word. Too difficult and the interface could also use an update? Not a fan...

[napocavox]

Do you have a reference of university press already using FM?

[ronniebaskind]

As a FrameMaker user for 20+ years, whenever people tell me they use MS Word for any kind of documentation, my first response is: "My condolences". Yes, FrameMaker has a steep learning curve and people are so used to using MS Word and it's simplified interface, that they always complain "FrameMaker is too difficult to use." Once you throw all your preconceived, pre-taught ideas of using MS Word out the window and stop trying to make FrameMaker be like MS Word, you're already halfway there. Would I still use use MS Word? Yes, if I'm writing a letter. For everything else, I use FrameMaker. Using MS Word to write any kind of document, is akin to using a sledgehammer to cut a diamond - it'll get the job done, but the results aren't going to be pretty.

[maxturner]

FrameMaker is a broken unusable tool which has an 80s look and feel ... and it crashes a lot if you don't have it running all by itself :(

[huwgrossmith]

I find FrameMaker, as someone who hates Word, difficult to use. Where are the word like buttons for simple stuff like centering text? FM is used for a LOEP - getting one out is, at best monumentally difficult. If you need a publishing/authoring tool because of the lack of some functionality in Word/Publisher then do more research this stuff is, in my opinion, difficult - even the manual assumes some previous knowledge and is therefore not in plain English.