Re: Flare vs X-Metal

["Dana Worley" <dana -at- campbellsci -dot- com>]

On Monday, November 20, 2006, Kapoor, Shelly wrote: 
  
> Has anyone on the list used X-Metal.  Do you know how they compare?

XMetal is a DITA-based (a type of structured XML) tool that 
currently outputs only to PDF or HTML (AFAIK). Flare uses XML as 
well, but supports output to DotNet help, HTML Help (CHMs), 
WebHelp, Word, and Framemaker. 

Both offer trial downloads on their web site. Also, check out Char 
James-Tanny's HAT-Matrix.com site for a comparison of Flare to 
other tools in the industry (excluding XMetal -- they are not listed). 

Regards,

Dana W.

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Dana Worley
Software Product Manager/Manager, Software Support Group
Campbell Scientific, Inc. 
Microsoft MVP, Windows Help


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