atw: Re: New Software for Documentation Department

I would have to agree with John about the right tool for the right job. AuthorIT is an awesome help tool and even the single user license outputs HTML as well as MS Word and multiple help format outputs. Having gone through similar exercises with AuthorIT in a few work environments I would have to say the native HTML output is very nice, but if you want to customise it you do need to spend some time working with the templates. Classic mistake I made on one job was to assume that I could just re-import the Word output straight back into AuthorIT. Don't underestimate the amount of pre and post processing on converting from other document formats either. I have really stretched the boundaries on AuthorIT on a few big documentation projects and when I have hit a snag the support guys at AuthorIT have always been on the ball. On the down side being an object oriented software its a difficult tool to wrap your head around if you are just used to Word type authoring and have no background with any help authoring packages. Its more like programming in C than it is like using Word. I still favour Framemaker over AuthorIT for bigger detailed technical documents, but for anything remotely suited to help format AuthorIT is my tool of choice.

cheers

Damian Forlani-Brennan
damian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tara Forge
www.taraforge.com.au
0438 411 323
(08) 9561 6304
PO Box 111 Two Rocks WA 6037

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