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Article #24521Re: Will FM users go the way of the dodo? Part 2
From: Tim Murray
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 16:31
Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 16:31
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M Howes - I have to disagree with you about
Adobe has done nothing to improve the usability since adopting it from
Frame, Inc, thus keeping as a mainframe solution that others refuse to
adopt
The first part is true -- they have not improved the usability -- but I don't think that's what's kept it from wider adoption. Indeed, in my work in Office-centric corporate offices, 90% of Word users are using it, well, not "incorrectly" per se, but they are not using good DTP methods (entire docs are Normal style, for instance). All the tool bars in the world seem only to provide more ways to do things wrong.
Office products simply got out there into the world on the coat tails of Windows, and now just about everyone who has ever sat behind a keyboard seems comfortable saying, "yes, I know Word." If you can convince them that, "look, your DTP methods suck, therefore you don't really 'know' Word," you're closer to convincing them as long as they need to "learn something" they might as well learn Frame.
In fact, I find people who are truly knowledgeable about Word are the first to gravitate to Frame, as (1) they have found how much Word sucks at long documents, numbering, and so on, and (2) they understand the correct approaches to DTP (stick to styles and structure, etc.).
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