Re: Framemaker vs. Flare for PDFs

Subject: Re: Framemaker vs. Flare for PDFs
From: beelia <beelia -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 20:18:18 -0700

Can't argue with that. If you just want PDF, FrameMaker is perfect.

Noticed that Word versions before Word 2010 sometimes won't convert to PDF
perfectly. Recently I ended up with partial tables and missing figures.

I wonder if others might have had similar results and would like to share.

Bee

I haven't found any advantages to Flare if your only deliverable is
> PDF. It is very nice to be able to edit the .html or .xml files in a
> text editor to fix problems, but on the other hand I've rarely had to
> export .mif from Framemaker.
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