Re: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

[Keith . Soltys]

 Hi everyone
 
 We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are 
unstructured
 FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.
 
 What software are people using for that?
 
 We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book 
 files, just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert 
 to structured FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that 
save-as-html
 looks crappy.
 
 Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using 
 FM and Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite - 
 does anyone know if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp 
on
 top of a standard FM installation?
 
 Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!
 
 Cheers
 Rebecca

If your books are format-heavy, then you may have problems. EPUB doesn't 
handle complex formatting very well without a lot of tweaking, and things 
like complex or nested tables may not work at all.

Also consider what devices your books will be viewed on. An EPUB book on a 
10 tablet like an iPad is one thing; it's a very different proposition if 
you're looking at it on a 6 E Ink reader like a Nook or Kindle, and even 
more so on a smartphone with a 4 screen.

WebWorks ePublisher will work on a whole book or multiple files from a 
book and links to your FM source files. 

Regards
Keith
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Keith Soltys
Senior Technical Writer
Architecture
TMX Group
(416) 947-4397
http://www.tmx.com/



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RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

[rebecca officer]

Hi everyone
 
Thanks for the answers! We'll look into that bunch of tools.
 
WebWorks sounds especially promising, given that it'd preserve our
formatting well. 
 
Cheers
Rebecca

 On 7/12/11 at 09:42, Eichelberger, Mark
mark.eichelber...@fiserv.com wrote:


It did seem pretty straight forward.  The project needed to be tweaked
a bit for tables and some bullet points to display properly in the epub
output, but other than that, it came across OK.
 
Mark
 

From: Writer [mailto:generic...@yahoo.ca] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 3:14 PM
To: Eichelberger, Mark; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

 

I've played around with it in WebWorks ePublisher, too. It seemed
pretty simple.

 

Nadine



 


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To: framers@lists.frameusers.com 
Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 2:23:41 PM
Subject: RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

I’ve created epub files from unstructured FM7 documents using Webworks
Epublisher Pro.

 

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[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of rebecca
officer
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 9:43 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

 

Hi everyone

 

We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are
unstructured FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.

 

What software are people using for that?

 

We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book
files, just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert
to structured FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that
save-as-html looks crappy.

 

Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using
FM and Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite -
does anyone know if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp
on top of a standard FM installation?

 

Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!

 

Cheers

Rebecca


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ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

[Georg Eck]

WebWorks ePublisher is beautiful to convert your content in an ePub (or
any other) format.

Do you like to see some samples (and statements about PDF will decrease 
- currently in german) please look there:
http://bit.ly/sVAw8L at the end of this page you will find a link to 
"Rezepte" page with all information and ePub samples
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ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

[rebecca officer]

Hi everyone

Thanks for the answers! We'll look into that bunch of tools.

WebWorks sounds especially promising, given that it'd preserve our
formatting well. 

Cheers
Rebecca

>>> On 7/12/11 at 09:42, "Eichelberger, Mark"
 wrote:


It did seem pretty straight forward.  The project needed to be tweaked
a bit for tables and some bullet points to display properly in the epub
output, but other than that, it came across OK.

Mark


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Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 3:14 PM
To: Eichelberger, Mark; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?



I've played around with it in WebWorks ePublisher, too. It seemed
pretty simple.



Nadine






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To: framers at lists.frameusers.com 
Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 2:23:41 PM
Subject: RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

I?ve created epub files from unstructured FM7 documents using Webworks
Epublisher Pro.



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Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 9:43 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?



Hi everyone



We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are
unstructured FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.



What software are people using for that?



We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book
files, just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert
to structured FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that
save-as-html looks crappy.



Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using
FM and Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite -
does anyone know if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp
on top of a standard FM installation?



Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!



Cheers

Rebecca


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ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

[rebecca officer]

Hi everyone
 
We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are unstructured FM10 
book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.
 
What software are people using for that?
 
We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book files, 
just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert to structured 
FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that save-as-html looks crappy.
 
Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using FM and 
Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite - does anyone know 
if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp on top of a standard FM 
installation?
 
Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!
 
Cheers
Rebecca

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RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

[Eichelberger, Mark]

I've created epub files from unstructured FM7 documents using Webworks
Epublisher Pro.

 

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officer
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 9:43 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

 

Hi everyone

 

We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are
unstructured FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.

 

What software are people using for that?

 

We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book
files, just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert
to structured FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that
save-as-html looks crappy.

 

Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using
FM and Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite -
does anyone know if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp
on top of a standard FM installation?

 

Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!

 

Cheers

Rebecca


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RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

[Jeff Coatsworth]

As far as I know, you could do the FM to RH as an import without getting the 
suite (the suite gives you the power to link), but the pricing's probably 
better if you do the suite than just standalones.


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Subject: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

Hi everyone

We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are unstructured FM10 
book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.

What software are people using for that?

We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book files, 
just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert to structured 
FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that save-as-html looks crappy.

Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using FM and 
Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite - does anyone know 
if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp on top of a standard FM 
installation?

Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!

Cheers
Rebecca

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Re: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

[Scott Prentice]

I'm pretty sure that you can link RH to FM even if you're not using TCS 
.. download the trial and give it a test to see how it works for you. 
Also Webworks ePublisher can export to EPUB.


Other less expensive options may be ..

- save the FM files to Word, then use Calibre to convert from RTF to EPUB
- save the FM files to PDF and use one of the many available converters 
to go from PDF to EPUB

- save to RTF or DOC and open in Atlantis Word Processor then output to EPUB

A list of authoring tools and converters is available here ..

   http://www.epubtest.com/resources.php

YMMV.

Cheers,

...scott


rebecca officer wrote:

Hi everyone
 
We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are 
unstructured FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.
 
What software are people using for that?
 
We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on 
book files, just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to 
convert to structured FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that 
save-as-html looks crappy.
 
Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're 
using FM and Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the 
suite - does anyone know if you can get this FM option by just adding 
Robohelp on top of a standard FM installation?
 
Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!
 
Cheers

Rebecca

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RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

[Jeff Coatsworth]

 Nope - linking is a TCS feature; importing can be done with or without TCS

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From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 2:46 PM
To: rebecca officer
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

I'm pretty sure that you can link RH to FM even if you're not using TCS 
.. download the trial and give it a test to see how it works for you. 
Also Webworks ePublisher can export to EPUB.

Other less expensive options may be ..

- save the FM files to Word, then use Calibre to convert from RTF to EPUB
- save the FM files to PDF and use one of the many available converters 
to go from PDF to EPUB
- save to RTF or DOC and open in Atlantis Word Processor then output to EPUB

A list of authoring tools and converters is available here ..

http://www.epubtest.com/resources.php

YMMV.

Cheers,

...scott


rebecca officer wrote:
 Hi everyone
  
 We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are 
 unstructured FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.
  
 What software are people using for that?
  
 We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on 
 book files, just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to 
 convert to structured FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that 
 save-as-html looks crappy.
  
 Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're 
 using FM and Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the 
 suite - does anyone know if you can get this FM option by just adding 
 Robohelp on top of a standard FM installation?
  
 Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!
  
 Cheers
 Rebecca

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Re: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

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I've played around with it in WebWorks ePublisher, too. It seemed pretty simple.

Nadine





 From: Eichelberger, Mark mark.eichelber...@fiserv.com
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com 
Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 2:23:41 PM
Subject: RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?
 

I’ve created epub files from unstructured FM7 documents using Webworks 
Epublisher Pro.
 
From:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of rebecca officer
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 9:43 PM
To: framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?
 
Hi everyone
 
We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are unstructured FM10 
book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.
 
What software are people using for that?
 
We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book files, 
just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert to structured 
FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that save-as-html looks crappy.
 
Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using FM and 
Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite - does anyone 
know if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp on top of a 
standard FM installation?
 
Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!
 
Cheers
Rebecca

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ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

[rebecca officer]

Hi everyone

We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are unstructured FM10 
book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.

What software are people using for that?

We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book files, 
just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert to structured 
FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that save-as-html looks crappy.

Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using FM and 
Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite - does anyone know 
if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp on top of a standard FM 
installation?

Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!

Cheers
Rebecca

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[Eichelberger, Mark]

I've created epub files from unstructured FM7 documents using Webworks
Epublisher Pro.



From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com
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Subject: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?



Hi everyone



We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are
unstructured FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.



What software are people using for that?



We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book
files, just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert
to structured FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that
save-as-html looks crappy.



Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using
FM and Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite -
does anyone know if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp
on top of a standard FM installation?



Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!



Cheers

Rebecca


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[Jeff Coatsworth]

As far as I know, you could do the FM to RH as an import without getting the 
suite (the suite gives you the power to link), but the pricing's probably 
better if you do the suite than just standalones.


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Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 9:43 PM
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Subject: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

Hi everyone

We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are unstructured FM10 
book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.

What software are people using for that?

We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book files, 
just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert to structured 
FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that save-as-html looks crappy.

Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using FM and 
Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite - does anyone know 
if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp on top of a standard FM 
installation?

Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!

Cheers
Rebecca

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[Scott Prentice]

I'm pretty sure that you can link RH to FM even if you're not using TCS 
.. download the trial and give it a test to see how it works for you. 
Also Webworks ePublisher can export to EPUB.

Other less expensive options may be ..

- save the FM files to Word, then use Calibre to convert from RTF to EPUB
- save the FM files to PDF and use one of the many available converters 
to go from PDF to EPUB
- save to RTF or DOC and open in Atlantis Word Processor then output to EPUB

A list of authoring tools and converters is available here ..

http://www.epubtest.com/resources.php

YMMV.

Cheers,

...scott


rebecca officer wrote:
> Hi everyone
>  
> We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are 
> unstructured FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.
>  
> What software are people using for that?
>  
> We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on 
> book files, just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to 
> convert to structured FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that 
> save-as-html looks crappy.
>  
> Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're 
> using FM and Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the 
> suite - does anyone know if you can get this FM option by just adding 
> Robohelp on top of a standard FM installation?
>  
> Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!
>  
> Cheers
> Rebecca
>
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ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

[Jeff Coatsworth]

 Nope - linking is a TCS feature; importing can be done with or without TCS

-Original Message-
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Scott Prentice
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 2:46 PM
To: rebecca officer
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

I'm pretty sure that you can link RH to FM even if you're not using TCS 
.. download the trial and give it a test to see how it works for you. 
Also Webworks ePublisher can export to EPUB.

Other less expensive options may be ..

- save the FM files to Word, then use Calibre to convert from RTF to EPUB
- save the FM files to PDF and use one of the many available converters 
to go from PDF to EPUB
- save to RTF or DOC and open in Atlantis Word Processor then output to EPUB

A list of authoring tools and converters is available here ..

http://www.epubtest.com/resources.php

YMMV.

Cheers,

...scott


rebecca officer wrote:
> Hi everyone
>  
> We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are 
> unstructured FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.
>  
> What software are people using for that?
>  
> We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on 
> book files, just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to 
> convert to structured FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that 
> save-as-html looks crappy.
>  
> Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're 
> using FM and Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the 
> suite - does anyone know if you can get this FM option by just adding 
> Robohelp on top of a standard FM installation?
>  
> Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!
>  
> Cheers
> Rebecca
>
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[Writer]

I've played around with it in WebWorks ePublisher, too. It seemed pretty simple.

Nadine




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> From: "Eichelberger, Mark" 
>To: framers at lists.frameusers.com 
>Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 2:23:41 PM
>Subject: RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?
> 
>
>I?ve created epub files from unstructured FM7 documents using Webworks 
>Epublisher Pro.
>?
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>lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of rebecca officer
>Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 9:43 PM
>To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>Subject: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?
>?
>Hi everyone
>?
>We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are unstructured FM10 
>book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.
>?
>What software are people using for that?
>?
>We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't?work on book files, 
>just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert to structured 
>FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that save-as-html looks crappy.
>?
>Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using FM and 
>Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite - does anyone 
>know if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp on top of a 
>standard FM installation?
>?
>Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!
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>Rebecca
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[Eichelberger, Mark]

It did seem pretty straight forward.  The project needed to be tweaked a bit 
for tables and some bullet points to display properly in the epub output, but 
other than that, it came across OK.



Mark



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I've played around with it in WebWorks ePublisher, too. It seemed pretty simple.



Nadine







From: "Eichelberger, Mark" 
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com 
Sent: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 2:23:41 PM
Subject: RE: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

I?ve created epub files from unstructured FM7 documents using Webworks 
Epublisher Pro.



From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces 
at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of rebecca officer
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 9:43 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
    Subject: ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?



Hi everyone



We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are 
unstructured FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.



What software are people using for that?



We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book 
files, just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert to 
structured FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that save-as-html looks 
crappy.



Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using 
FM and Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite - does 
anyone know if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp on top of a 
standard FM installation?



Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!



Cheers

Rebecca


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[keith.sol...@tmx.com]

> Hi everyone
> 
> We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are 
unstructured
> FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.
> 
> What software are people using for that?
> 
> We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on book 
> files, just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to convert 
> to structured FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that 
save-as-html
> looks crappy.
> 
> Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're using 
> FM and Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the suite - 
> does anyone know if you can get this FM option by just adding Robohelp 
on
> top of a standard FM installation?
> 
> Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!
> 
> Cheers
> Rebecca

If your books are format-heavy, then you may have problems. EPUB doesn't 
handle complex formatting very well without a lot of tweaking, and things 
like complex or nested tables may not work at all.

Also consider what devices your books will be viewed on. An EPUB book on a 
10" tablet like an iPad is one thing; it's a very different proposition if 
you're looking at it on a 6" E Ink reader like a Nook or Kindle, and even 
more so on a smartphone with a 4" screen.

WebWorks ePublisher will work on a whole book or multiple files from a 
book and links to your FM source files. 

Regards
Keith
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