RE: Flare and RoboHelp

["Pamela Denchfield" <PamelaD -at- onyx -dot- com>]

Aaron asked: "Is anyone using RoboHelp 6 or Madcap Flare?  If so, could
you share your stories.  Do you recommend them for use with FrameMaker
7.2?"

I am using Flare 2.5 and FrameMaker 7.2. I have successfully moved
legacy content from FrameMaker (and RoboHelp 5) to Flare, but Flare has
issues mimicking the print look-and-feel seen in our legacy FrameMaker
documents, such as bold digits for numbered steps (I'm a CSS newbie
investigating stylesheet solutions but guessing XSLT would be
required...we may change our look-and-feel to fit CSS.) I also
encountered several issues when importing from FrameMaker to Flare. 

What are your goals? If you plan to keep maintaining the content in
FrameMaker, make sure you do several test runs. We're maintaining our
content in Flare so we didn't have to consider this case. 

The madcapsoftware forum is a great resource:
http://forums.madcapsoftware.com/ 

Please feel free to contact me if you have more questions. 

Thanks,
Pamela

Pamela Denchfield 
Sr. Technical Writer, Onyx 
Consona CRM 
E-mail: pamelad -at- onyx -dot- com 
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