atw: Re: An old topic: Current state of HATs
- From: "Donald Halley" <donald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 16:39:05 +1030
Garry
ReWorx will probably do more than you require and it is relatively =
simple to use.
We've converted most of our clients from HDK to ReWorx Professional and =
they love it.
We went through the pros and cons last year of the different conversion =
tools and we found HDK to be the one of the better choices despite the =
obscure interface, now ReWorx is streets ahead.
We sent a client ReWorx Professional and before we got there to deliver =
training, he had it out of box, installed it and had converted some =
pretty messy documents into reasonable HTML format untrained. This =
person had not had any exposure to on-line authoring tools and limited =
Word experience.=20
Virtual Media being a local developer also makes it easy for support and =
they are generally open to suggestions and improvements. I would be =
surprised if you need XDK.
Please contact me off-line if you have any further questions.
Regards
Donald Halley
MAXEN Pty Ltd.
Phone: +61 (08) 8231 7900
Fax: +61 (08) 8231 3766
<http://www.maxen.com.au/> =20
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-----Original Message-----
From: Garry Stevens (ASI) [mailto:StevensGa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, 4 February 2004 3:34 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: An old topic: Current state of HATs
How do:
And now for a return to that grand old topic of choosing an online =
authoring tool. I've perused articles here from mid last year and =
checked out the recommended review sites. I thought I'd check up with =
y'all.
In short: environment is Windows 2000, Office 2000. We intend to single =
source in so far as that is practicable, using the one doc to make a =
user/reference manual and online help. One author. Help may be chm file =
or mounted on the intranet-- haven't decided yet. That partly depends on =
whether we can integrate the help with the (third-party) product, and =
whether we can tie topics into dialogs. It would be nice if we could =
decompile the existing help and meld it into the new stuff (we aren't =
sure what access the Aussie reseller has to the original help files).
I've used HDK (vsn 2000, recently) and Robohelp (some time ago). I =
always felt HDK was a bit too smart for its own good, had a particularly =
nasty interface, and a supercilious help system. I presume XDK is HDK's =
successor. ReWorx sounds suspiciously simple. I've no idea what the =
difference is between Robohelp Office and Robohelp for Word. One review =
site praised AuthorIT.
One issue concerns downloads. I notice that XDK requires a download, =
with an optional and additional CD. We have the NSW government's slowest =
internet connection (rather slower than a phone line), and I don't trust =
a download to complete successfully.
Yours suggestions welcomed,
Garry
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