At least for me, Flare is no substitute for FrameMaker. It crashes more often,
does not handle large graphics or vector graphics well, will not rotate cells
in tables, lacks support for postscript and some open type fonts, and creates
some weirdness with PDF output. However, the tech support is
I used Flare for about six months before moving back to FrameMaker and WebWorks
ePublisher.
I found that Flare was overly complex and hard to write in and took a lot more
tweaking than MadCap's promotional videos would lead you to believe. Web-based
output was good and fairly easy to set up but
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Bill said:
>Well, you say you have FM experience already, and that you do only a little
>bit of help authoring. But, you'd need the Adobe Technical Communication suite
>to get an interconnected seat of both FM and RH for any single-sourced help
>authoring.
Only if you want to stick with a pur
Bill said:
>Well, you say you have FM experience already, and that you do only a little
>bit of help authoring. But, you'd need the Adobe Technical Communication suite
>to get an interconnected seat of both FM and RH for any single-sourced help
>authoring.?
Only if you want to stick with a pur
On 14/12/2012 12:46 PM, David Millis wrote:
> Hello Framers,
>
> The master page for my Index looks correct. In other words, it?s a two
> column page with no side head. When I generate my book, the Index
> displays with a 1.5 inch side head. I copied the entire book from last
> year?s project, wher
FrameMaker's stronger for PDF. RoboHelp works fine for generating help
from FrameMaker files though I prefer MIF2Go as it's more flexible.
Flare's help search engine is weak or at least was up to 7.1. I don't
much care for the way it forces you to put each topic in a separate
file.
FrameMaker has
ine.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
David Millis
Drake Software
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Hi all
We are a small tech pubs department (2 of us) who currently use Word
for our documentation. We mainly publish to PDF, but use RoboHelp for a
very small help system. Ideally we?d like to use single-sourcing as much
as possible moving forward, and add more online help to our
documen
On 14/12/2012 12:46 PM, David Millis wrote:
Hello Framers,
The master page for my Index looks correct. In other words, it’s a two
column page with no side head. When I generate my book, the Index
displays with a 1.5 inch side head. I copied the entire book from last
year’s project, where the Ind
When you're on the master pages of the offending file and go to View-Body
pages, do you get a prompt to keep/remove master page overrides?
IIRC sometimes it helps to import the master pages from your template again, or
even import from the index file itself. Select 'remove overrides'.
Kind reg
Hi all
We are a small tech pubs department (2 of us) who currently use Word
for our documentation. We mainly publish to PDF, but use RoboHelp for a
very small help system. Ideally we’d like to use single-sourcing as much
as possible moving forward, and add more online help to our
documentatio
Craig, Gillian and others,
Thanks for your post and suggestions. I am the FM product manager at Adobe and
wanted to let you know that we will definitely consider the suggestions
mentioned in this thread.
Also, though this post, I wanted to point out that now in FrameMaker 11, you
can easily au
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