[Framers] MadCap Flare

[Robert Lauriston]

Lots of people think Flare has a steep learning curve.

When I first used it, I was an expert RoboHelp user, and had used
quite a few other topic-per-file tools such as XMetal and DreamWeaver,
so the learning curve should have been close to flat, but there were a
lot of things I knew it could do that I couldn't find in the UI or
docs.

On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 9:35 AM Jeff Coatsworth
<Jeff.Coatsworth at jonasclub.com> wrote:
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> Frankly, I'd disagree - if you can use Word & FM, you can use RH or Flare - you may not get all the subtleties in it, but topics are topics and styles are the same as paragraph tags and cross refs are just hyperlinks to bookmarks. The barrier to entry is pretty low. I'd say you should go ahead and download a trial & play with it.
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> From: Framers <framers-bounces+jeff.coatsworth=jonasclub.com at lists.frameusers.com> on behalf of Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
> Sent: February 28, 2020 12:29 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Framers] MadCap Flare
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> FrameMaker is not similar to any other tech docs authoring tool. It's
> fundamentally a page layout program.
>
> Flare is fundamentally an HTML authoring tool. It's very similar to
> RoboHelp and many other help authoring tools. If you've never used a
> similar HTML authoring tool, the learning curve could be pretty steep.