Re: Online Authoring Tools for UNIX

Subject: Re: Online Authoring Tools for UNIX
From: Rick Waugh <rick_waugh -at- MINDLINK -dot- NET>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:18:23 LCL

In article <41cp5i$psa -at- sydney1 -dot- world -dot- net> jmcghie -at- world -dot- net (John McGhie)
writes:
>From: jmcghie -at- world -dot- net (John McGhie)
>Subject: Re: Online Authoring Tools for UNIX
>Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 00:46:01 GMT

>youran <youran -at- vitek -dot- com> wrote:

>>Hi Everyone,

>>I am brand spanking new to the list, so forgive me if this question is
>>old. My company is getting into online doc. for the first time and I
>>need an authoring tool for the IBM RS6000, with AIX and Motif. I want a
>>tool that will allow me to hyperlink from graphics as well as text, and
>>it must be able to deal with large volumes, meaning good index and TOC
>>tools. I am aware of Frame 4.0 and Ileaf 5. Is Frame 5 a lot better?
>>What are your experiences? Any other suggestions?

>Frame 4 will not produce RTF that can be used by the Microsoft Windows
>Help compiler. This is a major disadvantage and requires the
>provision of expensive external filters to overcome it.

>Frame 5 is supposed to have fixed this problem, but from what I have
>seen on the Winhelp list, the jury's still out.

We're using Interleaf/Worldview, authoring from Word, because we're creating
Help files out of the same documents. It works well, but I can't compare it to
Frame, as I've never tried it....


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