Madcap Flare vs Framemaker

[Robert Lauriston]

Using the phrase "one of the 'keeper' releases" seems like agreeing
with me that FM has gone downhill.

FM steadily if slowly improved from 1998 to 2007 (5.5.6 to 8). Adobe
completely screwed it up with version 9 (2009) and is still trying to
recover lost ground as far as stability and usability. I use 10
because it's what' my company bought but If I had an FM 8 CD I'd use
that instead. 11 sounds like an improvement but mostly because it
fixes features that were broken or removed in 9.

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Art Campbell <art.campbell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.