Frame vs. Flare for My Needs

Wed Feb 25 15:08:46 PST 2015

Mif2Go is free now - courtesy of Jeremy's will and his family supported us in this effort. There is a small team of people getting the courage up to continue supporting it for future releases. The Omni Systems site has the info necessary to use Mif2Go.

With FrameMaker 12, there is one upgrade required to the latest Mif2Go download to make it work - one or two of the DLL's need to be updated. I forget which, but the information should be there at the site.

If not, please let us know and I will dig for it.

Z

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Ryan
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 2:34 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Frame vs. Flare for My Needs

Thank you to everyone who commented on my question.   Looks like I may have been underestimating the Mif2go program I have already!

I did a quick, non-scientific "convert to Word" comparison two or three years ago of FrameMaker 11 demo vs. Acrobat "save as Word" vs. Mif2go, and none of them really floated my boat at the time.  But having configured Mif2go to generate our online help quite nicely from FrameMaker I did gain a lot of respect for its capabilities.  "The book" describing how to use it is a bit daunting though!  "Thank you for purchasing a Boeing 747; here are your operating instructions."

I'm looking for a Word conversion that's not a Word "house of cards"----I need something that can be editable and won't frustrate the editor with thousands of extraneous chewing gum formats whose sole purpose is surface look and not re-usability.  The Acrobat save as word output was laughable in that it seemed to duplicate the look of our FrameMaker documents perfectly, but simple things like word wrap from line to line and page to page were apparently not thought necessary by Adobe.  The documents would explode if you actually tried to change anything in Word.

We have a lot of complex graphics in our Frame files:  For example, frames containing a screen shot, arrows, text boxes, cross references, etc. (the works).  Flare conversion seems to ignore or mishandle any graphic in which the screen shot is not alone in its Frame.  My memory is these other programs may also have trouble converting complex graphics.  Still,  there are a lot of configurable variables in Mif2go that I have not researched deeply.  So I will.

My Mif2Go version is from 2010.  Might an upgrade to Jeremy Griffith's last produced version be beneficial?  Is it even available anymore now that Jeremy Has passed?

Thank you again everyone!

Kevin Ryan
Technical Writer
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