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Subject:Re: Online Authoring Tools for UNIX From:John McGhie <jmcghie -at- WORLD -dot- NET> 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.
