Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

[laura at lavadome.net]

 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 
 documentation suite.

 We are looking to move away from Word to a tool better suited for 
 technical publications. At the moment we are considering MadCap Flare or 
 Adobe FrameMaker.
 We’ve done a general search for pros and cons of both (we have used 
 Frame extensively in the past), and have installed the latest versions 
 of both. We are interested in hearing if any other writers have 
 experiences that might help us make the right choice!

 If anyone has used Flare and gone back to Frame, or has any other 
 insights that might help us, please do get in touch.

 Many thanks
 Laura