Re: Online help generator using FM8
OK, so when you update the Frame file outside of Flare, Flare automatically gets the changes or do you have to import the Frame file again? On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Ed hamonwr...@hotmail.com wrote: That's simply not true about Flare. I'm compiling a help file right now with Flare that was authored in Frame. It's quite easy to set up a project to auto-import Frame content from Flare, and Flare adds a menu to Frame so that you can create or import projects. -=Ed. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Johnson Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 9:25 AM To: generic...@yahoo.ca Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Stalwarts Subject: Re: Online help generator using FM8 You will hear about three commonly: WebWorks ePublisher RoboHelp Flare The advantage of using WebWorks, IMHO, is that FrameMaker is your authoring environment. If your writers understand how to use FrameMaker and it works well for you WebWorks is probably your best choice. Flare and RoboHelp are each their own authoring environment. If you use Flare in particular you shouldn't continue authoring in Frame but that's a detail you can decide for yourself. -- Steve Johnson, dr_go...@pobox.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Online help generator using FM8
That's simply not true about Flare. I'm compiling a help file right now with Flare that was authored in Frame. It's quite easy to set up a project to auto-import Frame content from Flare, and Flare adds a menu to Frame so that you can create or import projects. -=Ed. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers- boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Steve Johnson Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 9:25 AM To: generic...@yahoo.ca Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com; Stalwarts Subject: Re: Online help generator using FM8 You will hear about three commonly: WebWorks ePublisher RoboHelp Flare The advantage of using WebWorks, IMHO, is that FrameMaker is your authoring environment. If your writers understand how to use FrameMaker and it works well for you WebWorks is probably your best choice. Flare and RoboHelp are each their own authoring environment. If you use Flare in particular you shouldn't continue authoring in Frame but that's a detail you can decide for yourself. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Online help generator using FM8
There is an auto-import function in Flare that automatically reimports the Frame files when you tell Flare to create the output. It does take awhile to convert the Frame files to MIF and then to HTML, so it's a good time to get a beverage. -=Ed. -Original Message- From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinask...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 11:19 AM To: Ed Cc: generic...@yahoo.ca; framers@lists.frameusers.com; Stalwarts Subject: Re: Online help generator using FM8 OK, so when you update the Frame file outside of Flare, Flare automatically gets the changes or do you have to import the Frame file again? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Online help generator using FM8
Ed, conceptually, do you have two sources of content in that scenario? Nadine --- On Fri, 4/23/10, Ed hamonwr...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Ed hamonwr...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: Online help generator using FM8 To: dr_go...@pobox.com Cc: generic...@yahoo.ca, framers@lists.frameusers.com, 'Stalwarts' stalwa...@gmail.com Date: Friday, April 23, 2010, 11:30 AM There is an auto-import function in Flare that automatically reimports the Frame files when you tell Flare to create the output. It does take awhile to convert the Frame files to MIF and then to HTML, so it's a good time to get a beverage. -=Ed. -Original Message- From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinask...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 11:19 AM To: Ed Cc: generic...@yahoo.ca; framers@lists.frameusers.com; Stalwarts Subject: Re: Online help generator using FM8 OK, so when you update the Frame file outside of Flare, Flare automatically gets the changes or do you have to import the Frame file again? ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Online help generator using FM8
Nadine- I personally think it's still single-sourcing, since you're compiling from the Frame source files. The output is multiple HTML files (since I create WebHelp), but I don't think that's different than any other WebHelp system. The conversion from FM to MIF to HTML is invisible; you never use or see the files unless you really want to look in the temp folder. I believe that RH works essentially the same way. -=Ed. -Original Message- From: Writer [mailto:generic...@yahoo.ca] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 11:34 AM To: dr_go...@pobox.com; Ed Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com; 'Stalwarts' Subject: RE: Online help generator using FM8 Ed, conceptually, do you have two sources of content in that scenario? Nadine ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Online help generator using FM8
Last time I used Flare it did not do that. Don't remember what version. Thanks for the info. On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:30 AM, Ed hamonwr...@hotmail.com wrote: There is an auto-import function in Flare that automatically reimports the Frame files when you tell Flare to create the output. It does take awhile to convert the Frame files to MIF and then to HTML, so it's a good time to get a beverage. -=Ed. -Original Message- From: Steve Johnson [mailto:chinask...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 11:19 AM To: Ed Cc: generic...@yahoo.ca; framers@lists.frameusers.com; Stalwarts Subject: Re: Online help generator using FM8 OK, so when you update the Frame file outside of Flare, Flare automatically gets the changes or do you have to import the Frame file again? -- Steve Johnson, dr_go...@pobox.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Online help generator using FM8
Besides Webworks Publisher, other options include Mif2Go (which we use) -- fast, powerful, highly configurable, extensively documented, and reasonably priced, but better for those with some scripting or programming experience; and Adobe RoboHelp (included with FrameMaker in Adobe's Technical Suite for Communications) -- intended for easy integration, but not as flexible as the other two. Stalwarts wrote: Hi - Can you list me the popular publishing tools for Online help generation using Framemaker 8? - Nithin ___ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Online help generator using FM8
My current client uses Flare. -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Jim Owens Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:55 AM To: Stalwarts Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: Online help generator using FM8 Besides Webworks Publisher, other options include Mif2Go (which we use) -- fast, powerful, highly configurable, extensively documented, and reasonably priced, but better for those with some scripting or programming experience; and Adobe RoboHelp (included with FrameMaker in Adobe's Technical Suite for Communications) -- intended for easy integration, but not as flexible as the other two. Stalwarts wrote: Hi - Can you list me the popular publishing tools for Online help generation using Framemaker 8? - Nithin ___ ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as mbrad...@techpubs.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/mbradley%40techpubs.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
RE: Online help generator using FM8
Nithin, Probably the most popular tools being used with FrameMaker are: Flare RoboHelp Mif2Go Webworks David Spreadbury Sr. Technical Writer -Original Message- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Stalwarts Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 11:57 PM To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Subject: Online help generator using FM8 Hi - Can you list me the popular publishing tools for Online help generation using Framemaker 8? - Nithin ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
Re: Online help generator using FM8
You will hear about three commonly: WebWorks ePublisher RoboHelp Flare The advantage of using WebWorks, IMHO, is that FrameMaker is your authoring environment. If your writers understand how to use FrameMaker and it works well for you WebWorks is probably your best choice. Flare and RoboHelp are each their own authoring environment. If you use Flare in particular you shouldn't continue authoring in Frame but that's a detail you can decide for yourself. On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Writer generic...@yahoo.ca wrote: Nithin: We use ePublisher by WebWorks. We're very happy with it and the support that we get from WebWorks. In addition, the people there are involved with the Yahoo user group (http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/wwp-users/messages). You can get a trial version at http://www.webworks.com/Products/ePublisher/Free_Trial/. Nadine --- On Thu, 4/22/10, Stalwarts stalwa...@gmail.com wrote: From: Stalwarts stalwa...@gmail.com Subject: Online help generator using FM8 To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 12:57 AM Hi - Can you list me the popular publishing tools for Online help generation using Framemaker 8? - Nithin ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as generic...@yahoo.ca. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/generic668%40yahoo.ca Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as dr_go...@pobox.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/dr_gonzo%40pobox.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -- Steve Johnson, dr_go...@pobox.com ___ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
