On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:19:35 -0600, Mike Wickham <info at mikewickham.com> wrote:
> >> I think it was a mistake for FrameMaker 10 not to include ePub output >> directly from FrameMaker. I can output an ePub straight from InDesign >> or straight from Apple Pages, but I need the full TCS3 to output ePub >> through RoboHelp. >> >When I saw the announcement of RJ Jacquez' webinar on producing EPUB, I >was excited. That's a feature I could use. Then I watched the webinar >and saw that RoboHelp would also be required, and was disappointed. The >logic, according to RJ, was that Adobe chose to put Web output into >RoboHelp and print output into FM. But, sheesh. Those of us who create >print books have no need for any of the help or Web features in >RoboHelp, but it would be nice to port a book easily into EPUB. There's >no way I'm going to spend the $1300 to upgrade to TCS3 just for that >capability, though. > >So maybe a RoboHelp Extra Lite is what I want-- EPUB only. Or, maybe now >that ExtendScript is hooked into FM, some third party will create a >reasonably priced script that would do the conversion. For ePub output, consider Calibre, which is free: http://calibre-ebook.com/ You can feed it with the HTML output of Mif2Go or ePP. Maybe even the Frame native HTML, never tried that. Or perhaps your PDF; it's flexible. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/