I'll give my 2c as well. We were using Frame with WWP and having no end of headaches with it. Builds were scriptable but not repeatable. It took ages to build our online help system. Having had a look at our documentation we realised that print was a secondary issue and that our prime deliverable was online help. So we looked at help tools. We looked at MIF2GO as a stopgap and although it would do the job better than WWP we shied away from it as Frame really isn't a help authoring tool.
Flare was head of our list, but we also looked at XDK, XML utlities, Robohelp and others. We opted to go with Flare in the end as being the most forward looking of the tools. A year ago the PDF output from Flare was flaky and via either Word or Frame. Now they've added PDF direct from Flare and I have to say the templating and page layout system is pretty good. Flare has issues, as do all tools. I think Flare has fewer and they are being addressed and new functionality being added all the time. If your main deliverable is online help, I'd say stop beating yourself up using a page layout tool to write help and switch to Flare. It does a great job for help (we use it for HTML Help) and does a good job for PDF output. If your main deliverable is print media, I'd stick with Frame and look at using MIF2GO for online output. Contact me offline if you want more info. Rob ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
