Re: Does Madcap Flare shun Trados?

Subject: Re: Does Madcap Flare shun Trados?
From: beelia <beelia -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "David Harrison (PMS)" <dharrison -at- moldmasters -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:30:51 -0700

No, Madcap doesn't play that kind of game. Lingo 4 fully supports Trados. I
went pretty far down that road before I had to switch to my company's tool
(XMetaL), so I know what I am talking about.

Flare and Lingo will work just fine for your purposes.

Bee

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:46 AM, David Harrison (PMS) <
dharrison -at- moldmasters -dot- com> wrote:

> I am starting to look at Madcap as a probable solution for my user-manuals
> where I suddenly need to maintain several variants of two manuals which
> share around 65% identical content.
> Now we have had doubt thrown on this application by our translation agency
> who advise that Flare tries to force translators to use Lingo because Flare
> is difficult to work with Trados, which is their TM application. They are
> advocating Framemaker - but I am wondering - has anyone out there seen
> problems between Flare and Trados?
>
> Regards
>
> David
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