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.