[Framers] FM 10 on a new computer.

[Shmuel Wolfson]

   You said: If you need only a page layout program, don't buy FrameMaker,
   either.
   What would you suggest if you only need a page layout program,
   Affinity?

   On 12-Aug-21 10:47 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote:

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 [1]<peter at petergold.photography> wrot
e:

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 [2]<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.

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