Dreamweaver, RoboHelp, Doc To Help, or AuthorIT???

[CDaniel -at- automatedlogic -dot- com]

Help! Our documentation group is switching from ForeHelp to new software. 
We have been evaluating RoboHelp, Doc To Help, AuthorIT - even 
Dreamweaver. (I have searched the archives, but haven't pulled up anything 
on this specific issue yet...)

We definitely need conditional text! We build our help files first for 
online help, then build them for wbt. The wbt has no links and in some 
places entirely different language. We also need browse sequences. And 
several authors must be able to check projects in and out. Basically we 
were pushing ForeHelp to its limits, but it was getting the job done.

We are even considering Dreamweaver, with Deva, due to the graphics in our 
help files. (Last year we inserted screenshots in all procedures and some 
overview topics.) 

Anyway, we can't find what we think we need. Any opinions? The companies 
have replied and told us various ways of handling the conditional text, 
but none seem to work as well as ForeHelp's. These conditionalized links 
(words, not paragraphs) are scattered throughout the text.

We also need to be able to generate manuals from it. Hopefully, easily. 
Ha!

Now we are considering just sticking with ForeHelp for the time being, 
maybe 6 months to a year, until something better suited to us comes along.

(I only receive the digest of this list, so Monday morning I'll be 
crossing my fingers and hoping when I come in...) Thanks for any advice 
you can give!

Cydnie Daniel




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