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Thanks for the warning, Chunkee.

Just letting the Pulse adopters know that yet again, they have been left with a crippled tool. The Pulse Service is NOT compatible with the new Flare 11 Top Menu output, only the tri-pane. Buried in the What's New guide, yet not depicted as with the other failures of Pulse, on the product descripti...

Kathleen

Thanks for your response, too.

Let me take a look at your suggestions and get back to you.

Steve

Leon Thanks for your response. We are looking at alternatives to H&M because there are a number of niggling issues that have been reported to them over the years but which they still have not fixed (forgetting bullet styles, for example). So, we want to look at what else is out there and whether...

Hello Kathleen Many thanks for your response. It is true that our process is driving our selection, but there appears to be no viable alternative way of doing things. To me, it seems that people use and talk about single sourcing as a means to primarily output the same document (or a small number of...

You are welcome, Lisa. My performance issues with Flare extend to even the most simple of operations: when I click Flare from the Windows Start Menu, I have to wait about 10 seconds before the Flare loading screen appears. When I click to open a project, it takes a good number of seconds to actually...

I've had Flare 8.1.2 installed (trial) for about six weeks and it now runs like a three-legged dog. The other authoring programmes I use (Help & Manual and Adobe TCS 4.0) are not exhibiting similar slow downs, so I have to assume that the issue is with Flare. I have a "fast" laptop: De...

Hello Our company is currently evaluating Flare as a potential replacement for Help & Manual. We are also evaluating Adobe TCS 4.0 in parallel. We single source documentation for a range of software tools that have extensive commonality. At the moment, H&M allows us to use if , if not and if...