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Subject:RE: Help without manuals From:Darren Barefoot <Darren -dot- Barefoot -at- capeclear -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 12 Nov 2001 12:03:55 -0000
I guess I've never "done it right", because I have never, ever been able to
get WebWorks to make me completely satisfactory content without some
post-production tweaking. I've honed it pretty close, mind you--maybe an
hour of review for 500 pages of Frame documents, but never completely. We've
spent a lot of time trying to reduce that further, but we've been
unsuccessful. Additionally, we've been unhappy with the "WebHelp" that
WebWorks produces. It is decidedly not cross-platform or cross-browser (at
least, as far as our testing is concerned).
Of course, I've gone the other route (RoboHelp to PDF) and there's way more
tweaking and overhead there, but neither solution is, technically-speaking,
single-sourced. DB.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Knopf [mailto:david -at- knopf -dot- com]
> Sent: 07 November 2001 20:17
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: RE: Help without manuals
<snip>
> -> With FrameMaker and WebWorks Publisher, you maintian a
> single set of
> source documents in FrameMaker and, if you do it right, you
> absolutely never under any circumstances need to make any
> adjustments to the output you produce (HTML, HTML Help,
> WebWorks Help, JavaHelp, etc. etc.)
>
> This is a non-trivial distinction that makes WebWorks
> Publisher a far better single source solution for many who
> produce printed and online content.
>
>
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