Re: FW: WWP Pro vs. Standard

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:17 PM 5/3/00 -0400, Brady, Paul wrote:
>Here's a summary of some of the replies I received on my original
>email...news is good! Looks like Frame 6 and WWP Standard will be a winning
>combo!
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>What I've gotten from Quadralay tells me you can use Pro to create HTML or
>XML templates that will run in SE, but that if you want to create templates
>or produce output for any of the online Help formats, you'll need
>Professional.
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So the "winning combo!" for FM 6 means that if your group needs to produce
online help formats, you must shell out an additional $600 for an upgrade to
WWP Pro on each FM platform. For the case where you only produce HTML or
XML, and you buy just one copy of WWP Pro for creating the templates, you'll
be creating a work flow bottleneck. All template development, including any
tweaks needed to fix conversion anomalies in individual files, must be done
on a single platform, and then transferred to the platform that needs it.

It sounds to me like it would be better, easier, cheaper, and more
productive to deinstall WWP SE, forget WWP altogether, and buy Jeremy's
Mif2Go for everyone.

So, in the real world of document conversions and "single-sourcing", FM6 and
WWP SE is not a "winning combo!" after all.
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