RE: Evaluation Process - HATs

[Matt Moore <MMoore -at- ConnectWise -dot- com>]

Thanks everyone.  I appreciate the comments.  Does anyone have any comment on customizing the output beyond changing colors and icons for RH or Flare.  Virtually of the examples I have found, use the basic 3 pane layout.  

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Subject: Re: Evaluation Process - HATs

Both Flare and RoboHelp have their online help on the Web, so you can compare them, both as help and also as examples of their different, proprietary WebHelp output:

http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare7/Default.htm

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/RoboHelp/8.0/RoboHTML/index.html

Good tutorials don't make Flare's online help any better organized, or its search engine any better, or its UI any less cluttered. Not that RoboHelp is necessarily any better, I'm just grumbling about one of the devils I know.

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Julie Stickler <jstickler -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Cardimon, Craig <ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com> wrote:
>> Yes. Flare's help rocks.
>
> Absolutely.  The first time I used Flare I took the time to work 
> through the tutorial. It was the fasted I've ever been up and running 
> (and productive!) on a new authoring tool.  Their Help sold me on the 
> product.
>
> I was demoing Author It at the same time, and I remember I couldn't 
> even figure out how to create a TOC or an index, and could NOT find 
> topics that addressed basic tasks for creating a Help system.
>
>
>
> --
> Julie Stickler
> http://heratech.wordpress.com/
> Blogging about Agile and technical writing
>
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