best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?

[Keith Soltys]

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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Writer [mailto:generic668 at yahoo.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:37 AM
> To: Keith Soltys; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
>
> > Flare has some advantages and I'd consider it for large projects where I
>
> > could start from scratch
>
> Kieth, do you mean if you were authoring from within Flare? What are those
> advantages?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nadine

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