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Charisma,

Also having the other thread you started in mind.

You have to realize that FM and ID mentally and philosophically are two completely different products. Their basic use and users are two completely different things. Not saying that there are no overlaps. There are tons of them. But then again these same functional overlaps can also be found between Word and PowerPoint and Quark and ...

In short: FM is content driven. The text is what controls everything. Your output is normally long sturdy documents with tons of functions needed for documentation of a technical kind.

ID is design driven. The amount of frames/boxes/colors is what makes a document. You move an element because you can do it and because you want it to look beatiful. The results are often magazines, brochures etc.

Again you can make longer documents in ID and nice design in FM. But it is not what you normally find.

You will always find persons in this and others forums who has slightly different opinions. But they are often persons who for whatever reason has a grudge against a product and for that reason alone drifts.

I too has made long technical documents in ID. First of all to prove a point but the time spent was not the best time spent. And using FM to make brochures and magazines. Again I could have used my time more efficiently.

You will also find a lot of people that automatically are drifting towards ID (ofr no reason at all). Or maybe because Adobe has done such a damned good marketing job in persuading people the ID is the best. IT IS - BUT FOR WHAT IT IS INTENDED FOR.

If you are migrating from ID (which you obviously use) to FM, my best suggestion is if you try to forget all about ID and start from scratch in FM. Not only how to work with functions etc. but in particular your state of mind has to change.

The spinoff if you end up mastering both, is that you become one of the few on the planet that really knows a lot :-)

keep smiling
thomas