FM v. RoboHelp
Lin Surasky
Lin.Surasky at retalix.com
Wed Jun 20 13:12:04 PDT 2007
See, these are the kinds of numbers I needed. I know there's a time
difference between the two, but how much is the question. Thanks for
helping with that.
I never would have guessed 3-5 days! For how big a guide? 60 pages? 200
pages? (Once it's PDFed, of course.)
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> Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:59 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: FM v. RoboHelp
>
> The last time I had to use RH to create printable output,
> there was a substantial amount of clean-up work involved each
> time between creating the Word version with all the
> print-friendly stuff like continuation statements on pages,
> etc., and then output to PDF and all the security stuff. For
> a single user guide, I would spend 3 to 5 full days just
> getting it into PDF from RH. Time is money. You could
> estimate the amount of time, factor that by your wage (plus
> the standard fudge factor for dealing with program bugs and
> crashes), and then factor that by the number of releases per
> document quarterly. That should be staggering enough to make
> your case clear to the QA and management mindset.
>
> Rene
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