I have been waiting with baited breath ever since the rumors of MadCap Blaze came forth, that a replacement to FrameMaker was in the works. I just downloaded the public beta.
Has anyone else done so? If so I wonder if anyone else shares my disappointment. Blaze appears to be a variant of Flare. It isn't an authoring tool so much as a conversion tool. It seems not to know if its main thrust is HTML or XML, and it seems to lean heavily toward HTML. I think that this product sufferes from delusions of adequacy. I am not a fan of MadCap Flare, it's interface is convoluted and difficult to master, and those same features have been duplicated for Blaze. I really don't see much difference between the two products. Now I see that the printed media solution is Press. It makes me wonder if MadCap is trying to emulate the Interleaf model, multiple products for a single solution. Mulitple prices for a single solution. Interleaf at the very least produced solid SGML. It had a fairly good GUI and method for assigning formatting tags. FrameMaker was simplier, monolithic and cheaper. With what MadCap is doing they seem bent on producing a series of products that are more complicated, and more expensive than FrameMaker and any other conversion tool with it. Does anyone else have a simliar view of this, or a different experience? It feels like Blue Sky happening all over again. Scott ---- Msg sent via Internet America Webmail - www.internetamerica.com _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
