Maxwell Hoffmann wrote:
I have 3 potential customers who are rejecting FrameMaker in favor of AuthorIt.
All 3 accounts are in e_Learning. Does anyone have an experienced opinion on
what areas AuthorIt may have any advantages over FrameMaker?
I want to make sure that these accounts are making an informed opinion. I have gone over AuthorIt's website fairly thoroughly, and a comparison with FrameMaker is not obvious, based on their data.
I have evaluated AuthorIT on a couple of occasions but not built a
production system with it (yet).
AuthorIT is very attractive for users because it is based on Word, but
offers a template-controlled environment (within Word's templating
abilities), good-enough content management and repurposing, decent
access to translation tools, and import/export to XML, Frame and other
formats including online help.
It's not a tool you would use if print is a key output format for you,
unless you are prepared to put up with Word's limited abilities in this
area.
Many documentation professionals (and all designers/typographers) are
appalled by aspects of AuthorIT, which is crude in many ways compared
with Frame. But it has a fairly shallow learning curve for authors and
editors, and is relatively inexpensive. It suits organisations because
it imposes a documentation workflow model which may replace a fairly
disorganised existing documentation 'system'.
It is proprietary and locked to Microsoft workstation and server solutions.
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Mark Barratt
Text Matters
Information design: we help explain things using
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