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You have to remember that VMware is pretty large and they use a whole lot
of different tool in different departments. But I was curious, as well...
before buying. I didn't get my own answer fast enough and discovered that
if you search for MadCap, using VMware's website search function, it will
list about 68 documents authored in MadCap Flare.
What I observed in looking over different VMware documentation was:
- MadCap Flare (v6) produces good results (except the VMware authors would
have produced much better documentation if they had inserted .svg images
instead of bitmap)
- Apache FOP produces terrible results (e.g. "VMware - Getting Started
vfabric-vfabric-gs-5.3.0.pdf")
- Antenna house, Adobe Distiller, etc. could come from just about any
documentation tool (including Flare... but more likely Adobe FrameMaker or
some MAC tool).
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:
> Which VMware documentation? The VSphere PDFs' properties indicate they
> were created using Antenna House PDF.
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> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Shawn C <shawn -at- convergent -dot- io> wrote:
> > BTW, examples of Flare documentation are plentiful. My favorite examples,
> > that really show off Flare are found in recent VMware documentation.
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