RE: Flare v Webworks

2007-11-14 Thread Charles Beck
Hi Pat, The tool you are looking for is called Mif2Go, and you can find it at http://www.omsys.com/dcl/omni.htm. The company is very much still in business, and its owner (?) Jeremy Griffiths is very active on this list. It is much more reasonably priced than WebWorks but a bit more challenging

Re: Flare v Webworks

2007-11-14 Thread Chris Borokowski
WebWorks does many things well. It has three major downsides: 1. Price 2. Support is OK, but major issues get ignored 3. Documentation gets a 0 out of 10 Other than that, it has many positive interfaces: a very Macintosh-like intuitive interface, a sensible file layout, a lot of customizability,

RE: Flare v Webworks

2007-11-14 Thread Sharon Burton
Vendor post I'm product manager for Madcap. I can tell you that Flare nicely single sources Frame 7 and 8 files and it's all pretty easy - much easier than setting up WWP, and I'm a WWP expert. We are also offering a competitive upgrade for about $400 off the full Flare price. I

RE: Flare v Webworks

2007-11-14 Thread Jon Harvey
I've been using Flare for a couple of years now--since its first Beta release. When you create an online Help project from FM files for the first time, it does take some time to set it up. You have to create skins, templates, assign styles, etc. The time consumption is not a limitation of the

Re: Flare v Webworks

2007-11-14 Thread Art Campbell
I'd second the recommendation for MIF2Go, while pointing out that it can output to many more formats, some of which might give a small company some new formats to provide... Art On Nov 14, 2007 12:41 PM, Charles Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Pat, The tool you are looking for is called