Online help generator using FM8

Ed hamonwry12 at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 23 08:14:52 PDT 2010


That's simply not true about Flare. I'm compiling a help file right now with
Flare that was authored in Frame. It's quite easy to set up a project to
auto-import Frame content from Flare, and Flare adds a menu to Frame so that
you can create or import projects.
-=Ed.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Johnson
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 9:25 AM
> To: generic668 at yahoo.ca
> Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com; Stalwarts
> Subject: Re: Online help generator using FM8
> 
> You will hear about three commonly:
> 
> WebWorks ePublisher
> RoboHelp
> Flare
> 
> The advantage of using WebWorks, IMHO, is that FrameMaker is your
> authoring environment. If your writers understand how to use
> FrameMaker and it works well for you WebWorks is probably your best
> choice.
> 
> Flare and RoboHelp are each their own authoring environment. If you
> use Flare in particular you shouldn't continue authoring in Frame but
> that's a detail you can decide for yourself.




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