question about the new product MadCap Blaze WAS RE: Is FrameMaker dead?

[Sharon Burton]

****Vendor post****

I'm the product manager for Blaze and I can tell you we are in a small early
beta right now.

Stay tuned for more information about Blaze and other products! I'll be at
Lavacon and showing Blaze as well as Madcap Analyzer (a new and exciting
product). For more information, see www.mapcapsoftware.com.

sharon

Sharon Burton
Product Manager
Madcap Software
sburton at madcapsoftware.com
Voice: 858-320-0387 x217
Fax: 858-320-0338



Quoting technical writing plus <doc-x at earthlink.net>:

> Has anyone been using the new MadCap Blaze product? I understand that it was
> supposed to be a long document processor. Jim Jones
>
> -----Original Message-----
> trish.robertson at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your responses. The consensus seems to be that
>> FrameMaker is very much alive and will be supported in the
>> future. Given that, is Madcap Flare the best online help tool
>> so that there is some degree of single sourcing? I've heard
>> that Flare is better than Adobe's new version of RoboHelp.
>
> No. Apparently, someone is repeatedly giving you bad information, so
> maybe you should stop listening to rumors that you hear (the "FrameMaker
> is dead" rumor has come around about every 6 months for at least 6
> years).
>
> Instead, visit the Adobe site and learn about the Adobe Technical
> Communication Suite. Adobe says that the suite versions of FrameMaker
> and RoboHelp are completely integrated into a single-sourcing solution,
> so that updates made in either program are reflected in the output of
> the other.
>
>> Also, has anyone come across some tools so that content could
>> be generated once and then reused in PDF, XML, online help,
>> and e-learning? Thanks for your help.
>
> How about the Adobe Technical Communication Suite? :-) Richard
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