They are two entirely different animals. The marketing hoopla from MadCap would have you believe that Flare is a direct competitor to FrameMaker. This is not true.
MadCap products are transformational tools, primarily. Their entire cause for being was centered around transforming formatted text intended for print, into online help files, generally through transformation into XHTML files. What is telling is that the primary authoring tools they cite for documentation are Word and FrameMaker. I've used Flare, and I find it very difficult to manipulate. Whether that's because I'm very comfortable using a fully functional and validating text editor for making XHTML or because I feel it's easier to hand code XHTML instead of using MadCap's GUI, is up for interpretation. I do know that what took me 20 minutes to change (a bullet list) in MadCap only took me 30 seconds using Oxygen text editor. Scott At 9:15 AM +0100 10/30/08, Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp wrote: >Lately I read some postings on MadCap products. I'm not familiair with >those, just wondering how MadCap compares to FrameMaker. Is it competive >with Framemaker (Adobe Tech Com Suite) or is it, can it be, additional in a >tech doc authoring and publishing workflow. > _______________________________________________ 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.
