<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_23911" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_24116">Gillian, I'm really unclear why you think you need to get someone to write scripts for you. Getting a PDF from FM with or without Dita FMx is not hard. Time-consuming, but not hard. I haven't looked at the new output capabilities in FM 12, but they give you other options. As you already know, WebWorks ePublisher allows you to process DITA into PDF and HTML. The PDF output can be challenging, but you shouldn't need to hire anyone to write scripts. There are other tools, too, for processing Dita, but I'm not familiar with them.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_23911" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_23911" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_24117">What is your required output? What are you challenges? Do you need to get up and running faster than you have time to learn how to create output? Do you need a better way of managing your content?</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_23911" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_23911" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_24136">I'd be happy to work with you offline to show you how to create PDFs from FM.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_23911" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_23911" dir="ltr"><span>Nadine</span></div><br> <blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_24162"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_24161"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_24160"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_24159"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_24158"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_24163"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Gillian Flato <gill6034@comcast.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Robert Lauriston <robert@lauriston.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "framers@lists.frameusers.com" <framers@lists.frameusers.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, April 13, 2015 1:20 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Flare vs DITA<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1428961679014_24164"><br>Thanks everyone.<br><br>Sorry I wasn’t clear. I’ve used DITA for about two years authoring with Oxygen and EasyDITA. I outsourced my script writing to a third party. That’s the problem with DITA. To get the docs and help to look professional, you have to outsource script writing and that’s expensive. <br><br>I was looking for cheaper alternatives. I have used DITA-FMx and I may go that route.<br><br>I just wanted to know of Flare was a better alternative to structured Frame with DITA-FMx<br><br>Thanks<br>Gillian<br><br><br>> On Apr 13, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Robert Lauriston <<a ymailto="mailto:robert@lauriston.com" href="mailto:robert@lauriston.com">robert@lauriston.com</a>> wrote:<br>> <br>> You can write topics with any tool, but Flare sort of forces you to,<br>> since the source is one file per topic (at least down to some heading<br>> level).<br>> <br>> Flare templates are extremely customizable.<br>> <br>> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Gillian Flato <<a ymailto="mailto:gill6034@comcast.net" href="mailto:gill6034@comcast.net">gill6034@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>>> How does Flare compare to DITA? It seems like you get all of the advantages of topic-baesd authoring, without having to have someone write scripts for you. Has anyone tried modifying their templates? How easy or difficult is that. 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