[cw-discuss] Miserable 6.0 experience...

[James E. LaBarre]

Bodvar Bjorgvinsson wrote:
> I understand, but if you have to revise such documents, I do not envy
> you. I have had to revise a lot of Word docs and many times you have
> to start from scratch and copy/paste the content or parts of it from
> the old file to the new. You even have to copy it into a text editor
> first to ensure that the text is clean.
> 
> My choice has been FrameMaker. Even though it does not by default
> support things like form fields etc, you can add a lot of such things
> into it by adding some minor PostScript code (which you can do from
> within FM) and PDF it, which usually is the end format anyway.

Would it be possible to output those PDFs as "fillable forms" though? 
In my last email I was speaking of 2 situations, one of which would 
warrant using MSWord itself.  When you have to collaborate with others, 
and *have* to have precise formatting (especially in complex documents), 
  that's when you have to use MSWord itself.  My own situation was where 
I had to fill out a form electronically, and the form was so MSW-centric 
that it would probably fail even on older versions of MSOffice..  I can 
tell you, I was not about to hunt down some other version of MSOffice 
just for one document; I filled out whatever was recognizable, then 
printed out and completed the rest by hand.  Here's where a fillable PDF 
form would have worked great.