Flare vs DITA

[Robert Lauriston]

If your docs are translated, ask your translation service what they
think about Flare vs. DITA.

You can get a 30-day free trial of Flare. Import your DITA and see how
it compares. There can be a steep learning curve at first but once you
find all the features you need it's very flexible.

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Gillian Flato <gill6034 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Thanks everyone.
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> Sorry I wasn’t clear. I’ve used DITA for about two years authoring with Oxygen and EasyDITA. I outsourced my script writing to a third party. That’s the problem with DITA. To get the docs and help to look professional, you have to outsource script writing and that’s expensive.
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> I was looking for cheaper alternatives. I have used DITA-FMx and I may go that route.
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> I just wanted to know of Flare was a better alternative to structured Frame with DITA-FMx
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> Thanks
> Gillian
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>
>> On Apr 13, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> wrote:
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>> You can write topics with any tool, but Flare sort of forces you to,
>> since the source is one file per topic (at least down to some heading
>> level).
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>> Flare templates are extremely customizable.
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>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Gillian Flato <gill6034 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> How does Flare compare to DITA? It seems like you get all of the advantages of topic-baesd authoring, without having to have someone write scripts for you. Has anyone tried modifying their templates? How easy or difficult is that. How is their help file making product?
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