You said: If you need only a page layout program, don't buy FrameMaker, either. What would you suggest if you only need a page layout program, Affinity?
On 12-Aug-21 10:47 PM, Robert Lauriston wrote: 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 [1]<[email protected]> wrot e: 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 [2]<[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 [3][email protected] Visit the list's homepage at [4]http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at [5]http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.co m/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at [6]http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers -frameusers.com Send administrative questions to [7][email protected] References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] 4. http://www.frameusers.com/ 5. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 6. http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com 7. mailto:[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]
