I had a similar experience with Flare 7.1. We had a really, really
long list of table-related PDF bugs.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Philo Calhoun isleofgo...@luxsci.me wrote:
I tried unsuccessfully a year ago to move from FrameMaker to Flare. After
months with tech support to deal with
Sorry to chime in late. I hadn't had a chance to open all my mail since
Thursday.
First of all, we're talking a bit about apples and oranges. FrameMaker
is a desktop publishing tool while Flare is an online Help, XML-based
authoring tool. The two may work hand-in-hand in the near future. For
I used Flare for several months, starting last November when version 1.0
was still in Beta. I found it to be a viable option to RH. Flare 1.0 has
a few bugs and quirks to it but then so does RH. One thing that
impressed me about the beta testing was that MadCap really encouraged
testers to report
I used the Beta of Flare as, at the time, RoboHelp had been 'sun
setted' by Macromedia. As a help tool I thought it was good. It's xml
based, which meant no more RoboHelp proprietry kadov tags in the
html/css. The promise of support for DITA in future releases was also
encouraging.
But it's no
Hi A.J. (et al.),
We have not *used* Flare, but we *have* recently been engaged in an
indepth exercise to analyze and evaluate a wide variety of help
authoring tools. We found Flare to be deficient in a number of areas
(which I will spell out briefly).
But in summary (for those of you ready to
I used the Beta of Flare as, at the time, RoboHelp had been 'sun setted'
by Macromedia. As a help tool I thought it was good. It's xml based,
which meant no more RoboHelp proprietry kadov tags in the html/css. The
promise of support for DITA in future releases was also encouraging.
But it's no
Has anyone compared the functionality of Adobe Framemaker 7.2 with
Madcap Software's (formerly Robohelp) Flare?
I am trying to decide which one to go with for the
documentation for my company. Framemaker seems to be the
industry standard, but is Flare just as good? Any thoughts?
And in addition to John's accurate comments, do you want to bet your job and
company on the first release of a new product (Blaze)?
Or are you just talking about online help delivery with Flare?
Art
On 8/17/06, John Posada [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Has anyone compared the functionality of
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From: John Posada [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Framemaker vs. Flare
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:18:41 -0700 (PDT)
Has anyone compared the functionality of Adobe Framemaker 7.2 with
Madcap Software's
with the process sheets eventually.
A.J. Coots
Documentation Specialist
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This is like comparing MS Word to RoboHelp. Different tools
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AJ, perhaps you'd better tell
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Let me re-phrase the question: Has anyone here used Madcap Flare?
If you're looking for feedback from people who use Flare, you might want to ask
this question on the HATT (Help Authoring
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