Rainer101

Manuals was written and produced with FrameMaker, long before InDesign existed at all and I assume, they are written still with FrameMaker, and not only by Adobe. Best former DTP and probably still today. Bad only Adobe killed it for OS X/MacOS. I was using FrameMaker at times of NeXTStep and it already had at least all the functions asked for in this blog. So that might be the goal for Affinity Publisher at first.

Feature requests for Affinity Publisher: I'm interested in the new publisher too to substitute FrameMaker, using it a long time since NeXTStep until shutting it down, while Adobe hadn't offered it for macOS or OS X at all. I hope Affinity Publisher can and will succeed FrameMaker in its functionality. I used FrameMaker as a word processor too and it was the best word processor at that time and there is still no adequate word processor coming near to that program. It was not only reliable for long documents versus Microsoft Word especially. It had great concepts like master pages and reference pages, at least for a word processor. With master pages you have the opportunity to change the background of different templates with just changing only one master page with a simple update function. Think of a letter paper you have to change for many different documents. Master pages and reference pages are two major important feature requests. An easy and good working (!) link back function was another great function while updating the linked changed document. I used it most for updating spreadsheet, in that time with Lotus Improv, for those who remember that multi dimensional spreadsheet program on NeXTStep. An import possibility for FrameMaker documents would be nice. Not to mention the many other functions of the DTP program. I would instantly switch to Affinity Publisher for a "word processor" as an substitute for FrameMaker on macOS if possible.