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Subject: Re: Tools statistics
From: Mark Giffin <mgiffin -at- earthlink -dot- net>
To: Shawn C <shawn -at- convergent -dot- io>
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:41:44 -0700

Hi Shawn,

How do you like the PDF output you are getting with Flare? Or are you using PDF at all?

I have never taken the time to see how good the Flare PDF output is.

Mark Giffin

On 9/26/13 11:41 AM, Shawn C wrote:

Flare's usable but given free choice I'd use FrameMaker plus WebWorks.
I'm curious Robert about your response. Why do you feel that FrameMaker and
WebWorks are a better choice for you.

I needed about a good month of working with Flare (to understand its
processes and logic) but once I became familiar with Flare, I decided that
I could never go back to FrameMaker. It was a huge risk but it is paying
off for me now but I also had the advantage of starting from zero; no
legacy of FM documents to consider.

I am asking because as a former FrameMaker trainer, I was up against a bit
of flak with my FrameMaker colleagues when I announced my decision to
abandon FM and I feel to a lot of people misunderstand the shear power of
the Flare tool.

It is not my intention to get into a FM vs Flare thing... as long as allows
you to do your job effectively, it doesn't matter what you use. :-)




On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:

Flare's usable but given free choice I'd use FrameMaker plus WebWorks.

I've also used RoboHelp and MIF2Go with FM within the past year and I
think WebWorks is the best of the three single-source add-ons for FM.
RoboHelp makes FrameMaker look polished and bug-free.

Currently I'm using Confluence plus Scroll add-ons. Well, actually,
this week I've been working in PowerPoint for Mac, which really puts
things in perspective.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Shawn C <shawn -at- convergent -dot- io> wrote:
Considering my ten year background with FrameMaker, I was going to choose
the tool I was familiar with but this company required single source
documentation to PDF and Web... FrameMaker isn't quite up to that task!
My
final decision was MadCap Flare.
--
Shawn Connelly
technical writer

<shawn -at- convergent -dot- io>






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