best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
Writer
generic668 at yahoo.ca
Wed Feb 13 07:07:33 PST 2013
Thanks, Keith.
Nadine
> Well, it's designed for content reuse, so sharing common content across
> projects is easy. Since it's topic based, it's easy for more than one
> writer to work on a project. It also has some very nice reporting and tracking
> features. If I was working on a large project, with multiple writers, and
> developing only for online output, I'd consider it. (I would probably be
> using it now, at least for some projects, if we hadn't run into a
> showstopper issue with their WebHelp format and our application server).
>
> I found that conversion from FM to Flare was much more time consuming than I
> expected. That was partly due to the learning curve, but even then, setting up a
> WWeP template is much easier and faster. I also found the writing environment
> not the easiest to work in. I wouldn't use it for anything that required PDF
> output.
>
> WebWorks is much more customizable. MadCap doesn't expose the internal
> workings of the program the way - they give you very nice interfaces for
> customization, but if it can't be done through the interface, you're out
> of luck.
>
> Regards
> Keith
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