<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div dir="ltr"><span>Have you given Mif2Go a try at converting your Frame docs to Word?</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>You use it now for HTML, it will also handle Word conversions.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span></span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Dave Spreadbury</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 2:23 PM, Kevin Ryan <kevin.ryan@systemsandsoftware.net> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8354266681">
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<div class="yiv8354266681MsoNormal">Hi,</div>
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<div class="yiv8354266681MsoNormal">I could use the advice of some Frame veterans on whether a switch from Frame to Flare might be a delusion-inspired wrong turn for me, or possibly the right way to go.
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<div class="yiv8354266681MsoNormal">My company's primary documentation output is PDF user/training/reference guides authored on FrameMaker 7. Not the current Frame version, I know, but sufficient with our good templates to produce solid, professional-looking documents we're
proud of. Other current deliverables include context-sensitive HTML topics produced via Mif2go and a limited number of "Process Assistance" MS Word topics. These latter are a sort of MS-Word help equivalent that our customers can download from our application,
edit if necessary, and even upload back into our application for others if they want to. I create Process Assistance MS-Word topics by cutting from Frame and pasting into Word, followed by manual reformatting (ouch).
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<div class="yiv8354266681MsoNormal">Our customers (utilities) have been requesting another MS Word output: Editable MS Word versions of our 20-300 page PDF manuals so that they can edit them for their own purposes (such as internal training). Unfortunately, we've been unable
to find a workable Frame-to-Word conversion process to this end. I can do manual reformatting to Word in our short Process Assistance topics, but to do it on entire manuals would give me a nervous breakdown.
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<div class="yiv8354266681MsoNormal">So, with better MS-Word output generation as my primary goal, I've been considering a switch to Flare. Its capability to output in PDF, Word, and HTML seems as though it might ultimately streamline our processes. As I test Flare by my 30-day
trial, though, I'm reminded of the many things FrameMaker does really well — things I might be losing if I made the switch: For example, precise page layouts, complex graphics, robust tables. To its credit, Flare seems to offer output versatility, excellent
documentation and support, and a lot of Marketing momentum. </div>
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<div class="yiv8354266681MsoNormal">Am I misguiding myself? Barking up the wrong tree? </div>
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<div class="yiv8354266681MsoNormal">Thanks for any opinions or comments.</div>
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<div class="yiv8354266681MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: rgb(45, 70, 120); font-size: 10pt;">Kevin Ryan</span></b></div>
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