RE: Frame 8 outputs / pick a tool (set?) help needed

["Jessica Weissman" <Jessica -dot- Weissman -at- hillcrestlabs -dot- com>]

Let me second Leonard's recommendations.  I do the same things he does
with H&M. The only snag is that it lets table cells split across pages
in printed output.  I took care of that with a special text style to use
in tables.  

We output to electronic book (searchable, makes developers happy) and a
few variations on PDF output.  The PDFs can be made to look very fancy
if you like.  There is conditional output at various levels (individual
text variables, conditions within a topic, and build tags for topics),
and you can even do all your output in a batch file that lets you
substitute different sets of text variables on the fly.

The support is excellent, with the developers and the main technical
writer/support guy monitoring the forums constantly.

Yesterday afternoon we needed to output a special version for a
potential customer that removed DRAFT markings on some topics, changed
the order of other topics, and hid a few topics.  I was able to create
that version in about 12 minutes flat, including time for H&M to build
the three output formats.

There is a brand new update to H&M that offers a few real advantages.
It no longer uses a potentially corruptible internal database, and there
is some new flexibility.  Material is stored in XML format now, which
may be useful to some.

-  Jessica

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