Great game today for the Pheonix summer team. We win, 2-0, against a team who made fun of how small we were. Yep, that'll learn ya!

Holee time warp batman!

You know, I need a blog to let team members know about the Phoenix soccer schedule, and people have complained that if they don't have facebook, they can't see the other page I made. Ok, so I should try blogger...and whoa...it's a time portal taking me back to 2007....that's 5 years ago when apparently I already signed up for blogger and posted a few items.

And what was on my mind 5 years ago? Work. Madcap Flare import. Coincidentally I just downloaded the latest version for the first time in like...5 years. Like there's a natural rhythm to life or something.

Hello 2007. You were a simpler time. A time when I had two parents, not one. One kid was in elementary school, drawing pictures of dogs and sunshine faces, working through the beginning piano pieces without sharps or flats.  The other kid kicking the ball, chasing the ball, finding the easter eggs.

Easy Sync


A first in the industry. Flare supports two different work flows when importing Microsoft Word or Adobe FrameMaker documents. With the standard import you can leverage existing content and then continue your editing and maintenance using Flares built in editor. However, with the new Easy Sync capability you can have Flare treat the original Word or FrameMaker document as the source file. This allows you to do all of your edits and maintenance in the original Word or FrameMaker document and still get all of the powerful publishing capabilities of Flare. The first tool in the industry to support two different work flows within the same product.

Online Help Tool Choosing

This is my first post. I really don't need a blog, I just need a note tool, but I have like 40 or so .txt files on my desktop that move around alphabetically when you least expect them to. New text Docum... seems to be the most common filename. Some are empty. Some aren't. A lot of help that is.
SO blog it is.
My current quest is to find the right help tool for our team. Robohelp looked like it was dying a slow death in the hands of Adobe, leaving Madcap the easy choice. But wait, Robohelp 7 is out and looks good. The only problem is that it doesn't seem to want to roundtrip with FrameMaker. But does Madcap Flare. I see Easy-sync FrameMaker support.

Robohelp: + easy to use. Maybe because I'm used to it.
Flare: + Easy Sync.

I really need something that I can create source material in Frame, then export to an online help editor, add my online help effects, create the online help, then save them all in Frame again, ready for the next release without losing my work.

Time will tell.