Re: Novice tech writer seeking advice on tools.

Subject: Re: Novice tech writer seeking advice on tools.
From: paul priola <mayarasta -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: " " " " <ck1168 -at- yahoo -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 05:44:16 -0700 (PDT)

I've never used In Design but my short answer is anything but word. Been a Frame person for 12 years and have few complaints. We do SW manuals, 1500 page HW manuals and 50 page data sheets. Works great for all. Generates PDF easily and with webworks publisher generates HTML.
paul

<ck1168 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
Hello everyone,

I'm new to this list and to tech writing as well. This is my first tech
writing job. The company makes software and I write the manuals.

I manage about 27 documents, of which 16 are variants of two basic
documents i.e. 95% of contents are the same. The manuals are small
averaging 120 pages with around 100 odd images. I'm using Word 2000 and
RoboHelp to produce MS Word, PDF and Windows HTML Help.

Right now I'm looking for tools that will help manage all these and to
cut down time on layout/formatting and let me focus on improving the
contents.

Lately Word has been crashing. I've read up on Framemaker and In Design
but have never used either. Should I be using Framemaker? or In Design?
or some other tools?

thanks for reading!
c.k.tan



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