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Jonathan Breger asks:
I am looking for advice on help authoring tools. Already I know about
RoboHelp and Help and Manual. What experiences have people had with those tools?
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I need more information. :-)
What are your deliverables? WinHelp. HTMLHelp. WebHelp. PDF.
What is your goal for the documentation?
What's the life cycle for your documentation?
What kind of budget are you looking at?
Who's your target audience?
What sort of experience do you and others who will be creating/maintaining the docs have with various authoring tools?
How comfortable are you with "code" instead of WYSIWYG? (for example, I'd much rather work directly with HTML than rely on a WYSIWYG to do it for me).
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lets you easily single-source content to online Help, intranet, and Web.
The interface is designed for FrameMaker users, so there is little or no
learning curve and no macro language required! Call 800-718-4407 for
competitive pricing or download a trial at: http://www.ehelp.com/techwr-l4
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