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Henry, please lay off the acid or wait a good 9 hours between dropping and posting. 

LOL! 

I'm sorry, man. I'm tired, and I have no clue what you are talking about, what your point is, or why you posted to this particular message to this thread. I also just watched the SCRUBS marathon, so I'm all charged up with sarcasm. *g* 

I love it when people who don't know what FrameMaker is all about get all huffy puffy and start spouting jibberish... 

OK, so let's stop the chuckles and so forth and dig right in, shall we? 

 
I want to use FrameMaker!  
 

Kudos to you! 

 
For: simultaneous text+graphic contact creation, because I create with these simultaneously, and integration with Illustrator is theoretically perfect.  
 

Huh? Contact creation? Is this George <http://chroniclesofgeorge.nanc.com/>? Illustrator integration? Huh? Wuhchootawkin' bout, Willis? 

 
Unfortunately, none of my clients use FM, so I haven't had a chance to test this theory.  
 

Ok... 

 
Every current client insists on me using Word, which claims page layout capabilities but --as even some MS people quietly admit-- doesn't really do the job very well. Exporting AI graphics to Word brings the word "minefield" to mind.  
 

Ok... 

 
I will give MS credit for identifying that there are a huge number of people in the world creating very short documents with possibly one or or two simple graphics, for which Word is likely quite sufficient and even admirably suited.  
 

Ok... 

 
As such, Word dominates the market between SimpleText and truly professional products such as InDesign. And, as expectations increase, MS can slowly ratchet up capabilities. No hurry.  
 

Huh? what? You lost me. The markets for Word and InDesign are totally different. What the heck does this have to do with FrameMaker anyway?!? 

 
There's a lesson here. Adobe, are you listening?  
 

If they are, I feel sorry for them. My head hurts now. Damn you!!! 

LOL! 

Feel free to elaborate so we have something of substance to debate... otherwise I stand by my position (which can be summed up in one syllable: huh?!?)