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Thanks for your comments, Laura. One thing about your response concerned and confused me a little. You said "Flare uses accepted XML and CSS standards that anyone can learn and apply. And, not only are there multiple online/electronic outputs, but Word and PDF outputs are generally good too. Single ...

We've standarized on FrameMaker because it's a great product, suits our needs, and works well for our translation vendor who uses Trados. For now only one project would be output to online help as only one of our medical devices is Windows based.

Ah, now I understand. How many files are delivered with WebHelp? Are they as compact as .chm files? Can you have context sensitive help with WebHelp?

BTW, I realize I've have to purchase Flare for the output capabilities it offers, but my point was that if I'm not going to be using it for the ...

Thanks for this valuable infor. Ugh, it sounds like we'll have to go with HTML Help as much as I hate to do that. We are delivering our online help on a medical device that will not be connected to the Web. HTML Help will work but it's so old fashioned. At least the clients will get what they need ...

I'm researching HATs and am wondering if it's worth buying Flare if I don't plan to use it as an authoring tool. We use Adobe FrameMaker and don't plan to change that anytime soon. We plan to output to HTML help. Is it relatively easy to create the link to the FM files for constant updates or will I ...