[Framers] FM 10 on a new computer.

[Robert Lauriston]

If you don't need a help authoring tool, don't buy Flare. Flare's
expensive because it takes a lot of development to keep up with
customers' evolving requirements.

If you need only a page layout program, don't buy FrameMaker, either.
Its relatively high cost reflects its additional features such as
multichannel publishing, DITA, and the FDK.

The document I round-tripped from FrameMaker to Flare and back wasn't
particularly simple, it was just consistently formatted.

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 5:59 PM Peter Gold <peter at petergold.photography> wrote:
>
> Such a simple and clean source doc-set in Word might be as trouble-free.
>
> Flare prices remind me of FM-UNIX prices of the 1990s.
>
> Affinity offers ten-day free trials.
>
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 7:42 PM Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Ten years ago I found that Flare did an excellent job of
> > "round-tripping" a FrameMaker book. There was one minor thing that got
> > lost, they might have fixed that since. The book in question was very
> > clean, absolutely consistent formatting with short, minimalist sets of
> > paragraph and character tags and no direct formatting. Might not have
> > been such a good experience with messy source.