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How are you using Flare? What tips and tricks have you learned? What drives you crazy? What do you love?

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Workflow changes
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Note: This was posted in the "How do we use Flare" discussion but I wanted to break out the questions to start more discussion. Hello to all. We're a group of four, only two of us have Flare as t... Continue

Tagged: webworks, framemaker

Started by William Gaffga. Last reply by Neil Perlin Apr 23.

How we use Flare
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Hello everyone and welcome! Our documentation team is using Flare as a single-sourcing tool to create webhelp help systems, FrameMaker manuals, and training kits (also webhelp). We've spent a sign... Continue

Tagged: documentation, flare, styles, single-sourcing, madcap

Started by Laura Filla. Last reply by William Gaffga Apr 16.

DotNet Help versus WebHelp

What do you, the experienced users, see as the pros and cons of DotNet Help versus WebHelp. I can see one argument against .Net being the required Viewer but that's not a big deal to me. Also, doe... Continue

Tagged: dotnet, skin, webhelp

Started by William Gaffga Apr 15

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Comment by Rahel Anne Bailie 1 day ago: You who have been at DocTrain know that I missed most of the conference because I'm up to my neck in deadlines (due today)! Just noticed an email where my client asks: Are you able to confirm that the eLearning course materials you're creating can be delivered in a SCORM package to go into our LMS? Anyone have a quick answer? I could go digging but have 12 hours of work to deliver in 6, so any contribution appreciated.

Comment by Rahel Anne Bailie on March 27, 2008 at 3:20pm: Hi, y'all (am I using y'all correctly? as a Canadian, I don't even know if I'm entitled to use it!) I ramped up to become a Flare trainer, and haven't sent in my final project yet (between computer crashes, organizing a conference, and an office move, it's been a little hectic) but expect to get my certification soon. Meanwhile, I've used Flare on various projects where I have multichannel deliverables for a client - Word, help, HTML0 but don't have the resources to go the full content management route (it's the cost of XSL otuput that's the killer), and want to deliver clean XHTML source files to them at the end of the project. Generally, they don't care how I produce the material, as long as they get their Word documents at the end of the day. Sad but true. It makes me look like a hero, though, when I can deliver a whole raft of output that my competition can't because they're not really using efficient back-end production methods.

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