Flare is old-fashioned locally installed single-user Windows software, like FrameMaker.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 2:12 AM Caroline Tabach <[email protected]> wrote: > > We did look into that, but my understanding is that it is cloud based and > therefore not appropriate for what we are doing. > > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 7:37 PM Robert Lauriston <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My first thought would be to migrate to Flare or Paligo, which are >> much better at that sort of reuse. >> >> On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 5:24 AM Caroline Tabach >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have converted the very large Word user guide to FrameMaker. I am using >> > Unstructured Frame 2017 >> > >> > This is a guide for a product which has general information about how to >> > use the product at the beginning, and a few chapters with general >> > information at the end. >> > >> > >> > >> > The product is made up of 100 "boxes" which belong to 5 families (I am >> > just calling them boxes for the sake of the example) >> > >> > The FrameMaker book I made uses only chapters, not volumes, there is a >> > chapter for each box family, with information about each of the boxes in >> > that family. >> > >> > Each customer only needs to user 4 or 5 "boxes", so we want to make user >> > guides that are smaller and more focused >> > >> > I have made a book with everything in it, and now I want to show the SME >> > how we can use Frame to make smaller guides. I am wondering about the best >> > way to do this. >> > >> > 1. Make 5 books each with one box family in it, which will contain info >> > about all the boxes in that family as well as the general information. end >> > users will receive the guide with info about the box family, they will have >> > info about 15 boxes even if they only bought one >> > >> > 2. Redo the guide that I did and make the box families to be volumes, and >> > then each box is a chapter. . >> > >> > This means it will be easy to add or remove boxes from the guide, this also >> > means it is possible to customize the guides per customers >> > The company are using heading numbering, so this means redoing all of the >> > heading of all the paragraph styles, which might get complicated >> > >> > 3. Another idea I had was to set the book up as described above, with a >> > chapter for each box family, but to have each box as a text inset, and be >> > able to create user guides per box. Highly customizing this, but means I >> > don't have to mess with the numbering, but maybe this will make life >> > complicated >> > >> > What would you recommend? >> > >> > Are there advantages and disadvantages of each method? >> _______________________________________________ >> >> This message is from the Framers mailing list >> >> Send messages to [email protected] >> Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com >> Archives located at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ >> Subscribe and unsubscribe at >> http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com >> Send administrative questions to [email protected] > > > > -- > Caroline Tabach > Technical/Marcom Writer > e-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to [email protected] Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [email protected]
