Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

[Art Campbell]

I'd second all of Robert's comments except the last one about FM going
downhill.

FM 11 is solid, fast, and enhances or adds important new or missing
features. It's likely to be one of the "keeper" releases.

But if you are a small shop that does mostly online help or other online
deliverables, Flare's workable, but in larger departments or for a wider
variety of media, it's more borderline.

Art

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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>wrote:

> 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 been going downhill from version 9 on, personally I
> would be disinclined to buy it. I'm hoping to dump it in favor of
> Confluence 4 one of these days.
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