I used Flare for about six months before moving back to FrameMaker and WebWorks
ePublisher.
I found that Flare was overly complex and hard to write in and took a lot more
tweaking than MadCap's promotional videos would lead you to believe. Web-based
output was good and fairly easy to set up
FrameMaker's stronger for PDF. RoboHelp works fine for generating help
from FrameMaker files though I prefer MIF2Go as it's more flexible.
Flare's help search engine is weak or at least was up to 7.1. I don't
much care for the way it forces you to put each topic in a separate
file.
FrameMaker
I have not found Flare an adequate replacement for FrameMaker. It is less
stable, does not handle large graphics or vector files well, rotated cells in
tables, many open type fonts, and has some bugs with PDF output.
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On Dec 17, 2012, at 10:00 AM,
At least for me, Flare is no substitute for FrameMaker. It crashes more often,
does not handle large graphics or vector graphics well, will not rotate cells
in tables, lacks support for postscript and some open type fonts, and creates
some weirdness with PDF output. However, the tech support is
I'd second all of Robert's comments except the last one about FM going
downhill.
FM 11 is solid, fast, and enhances or adds important new or missing
features. It's likely to be one of the keeper releases.
But if you are a small shop that does mostly online help or other online
deliverables,
I am generating an Index in FrameMaker 11, but the index words have been
inserted in the markers with a mix of capital letters and small letters.
It's a big index and I would like to be able to force all words to have
the first character as a capital letter. Can I somehow tweak the
paragraph
You're best to edit the markers and not rely on a quick fix via formatting.
I don't know if it's available for or compatible with FM 11 but IXGen is
ideal for your needs. http://www.fsatools.com/
If you can't use or purchase IXGen, you're best to use a generated index or
list of markers to
I'm a big advocate for WWeP but since they indicated they already use RH,
the TCS option was a best fit.
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Writer generic...@yahoo.ca wrote:
Bill said:
Well, you say you have FM experience already, and that you do only a
little bit of help authoring. But,
I would edit the markers...especially if there are foreign languages!
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Bill
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012, Studio Smalbro wrote:
I am generating an Index in FrameMaker 11, but the index words have been
inserted in the markers with a mix of capital letters and small letters. It's
a big index and I would like to be able to force all words to have the first
character as a
Dear Framers:
When passing judgment, Framers should also declare whether they are working
in structured or unstructured. I am working with unstructured print and pdf.
Perhaps my remarks only apply to those modes.
This list is the sole reason I continue with FM.
I think we need some scientific
Please let us not get sentimental about FrameMaker. I fervently hope a
better mousetrap will soon be here. I will be very glad to be rid of 2012,
ruined for me by TCS4 FrameMaker and its scammy advertorials.
Agreed, Rob. At there very least, there needs to be a contender.
Nadine
I'm a big advocate for WWeP but since they indicated they already use RH, the
TCS option was a best fit.
It's A fit. Not sure I'd say best.
Nadine
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I've used both FM+WWeP and FM+RH via the TCS extensively. Best lies in
many factors, but I can say with full confidence that both solutions are
solid for single-sourcing with FM source content.
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Writer generic...@yahoo.ca wrote:
I'm a big advocate for WWeP but
Using the phrase one of the 'keeper' releases seems like agreeing
with me that FM has gone downhill.
FM steadily if slowly improved from 1998 to 2007 (5.5.6 to 8). Adobe
completely screwed it up with version 9 (2009) and is still trying to
recover lost ground as far as stability and usability. I
Short answer: no; there's no way to use paragraph styles toenforce initial captals.You could force all caps, as a quick hack.
More-relevant answer: You shouldn't do this, anyway. I feelt that indexes should use capitalizattion as driven by tthe indexed terms. So, proper nouns and such get
RoboHelp's exported HTML is messy and I don't like the way it insists
on putting topics from each document in a FrameMaker book in a
separate directory in the generated help.
It works OK for generating help from FrameMaker, but given that Laura
has only one small project in RH, I would suggest
Maybe export the FM documents to MIF and use a search and replace
utility to edit the markers?
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Studio Smalbro stu...@smalbro.dk wrote:
I am generating an Index in FrameMaker 11, but the index words have been
inserted in the markers with a mix of capital letters
Why can't you use this technique:
As a final, hacky solution, you could make a super-stripped file (I use
MIF editing to kill, like, EVERY catalog I can) and then have one of
those files for each part, in which you define a Variable to carry the
H/F text? That way, you could still use
I can provide a tiny bit of data, for what it's worth.
Each year, the NZ tech comms society (TCANZ) does a salary survey, and asks
about tool usage while they're at it.
In 2011, the tools part of the survey had 110 respondents from 85 different
companies.
Of those, there were 15 FM users
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inserted in the markers with a mix of capital letters and small letters.
It's a big index and I would like to be able to force all words to have
the first character as a capital letter. Can I somehow tweak the
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> I am generating an Index in FrameMaker 11, but the index words have been
> inserted in the markers with a mix of capital letters and small letters. It's
> a big index and I would like to be able to force all words to have the first
> character as a
> Please let us not get sentimental about FrameMaker. I fervently hope a
> better mousetrap will soon be here. I will be very glad to be rid of 2012,
> ruined for me by TCS4 FrameMaker and its "scammy" advertorials.
Agreed, Rob. At there very least, there needs to be a contender.
Nadine
>I'm a big advocate for WWeP but since they indicated they already use RH, the
>TCS option was a best fit.
It's A fit. Not sure I'd say "best".
Nadine
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Effective pages.
Thank you as always
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Using the phrase "one of the 'keeper' releases" seems like agreeing
with me that FM has gone downhill.
FM steadily if slowly improved from 1998 to 2007 (5.5.6 to 8). Adobe
completely screwed it up with version 9 (2009) and is still trying to
recover lost ground as far as stability and usability.
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RoboHelp's exported HTML is messy and I don't like the way it insists
on putting topics from each document in a FrameMaker book in a
separate directory in the generated help.
It works OK for generating help from FrameMaker, but given that Laura
has only one small project in RH, I would suggest
Maybe export the FM documents to MIF and use a search and replace
utility to edit the markers?
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Studio Smalbro wrote:
> I am generating an Index in FrameMaker 11, but the index words have been
> inserted in the markers with a mix of capital letters and small
Why can't you use this technique:
> As a final, hacky solution, you could make a super-stripped file (I use
> MIF editing to kill, like, EVERY catalog I can) and then have one of
> those files for each part, in which you define a Variable to carry the
> H/F text? That way, you could still use
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