If you don't need a help authoring tool, don't buy Flare. Flare's expensive because it takes a lot of development to keep up with customers' evolving requirements.
If you need only a page layout program, don't buy FrameMaker, either. Its relatively high cost reflects its additional features such as multichannel publishing, DITA, and the FDK. The document I round-tripped from FrameMaker to Flare and back wasn't particularly simple, it was just consistently formatted. On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 5:59 PM Peter Gold <[email protected]> wrote: > > Such a simple and clean source doc-set in Word might be as trouble-free. > > Flare prices remind me of FM-UNIX prices of the 1990s. > > Affinity offers ten-day free trials. > > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 7:42 PM Robert Lauriston <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Ten years ago I found that Flare did an excellent job of > > "round-tripping" a FrameMaker book. There was one minor thing that got > > lost, they might have fixed that since. The book in question was very > > clean, absolutely consistent formatting with short, minimalist sets of > > paragraph and character tags and no direct formatting. Might not have > > been such a good experience with messy source. _______________________________________________ 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]
