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Another poster noted that you could use Webworks Publisher for this. A
similar (but much cheaper) product is Mif2Go by Omsys. It has worked very
well for us. As with WWP, you can insert Frame markers to control the
filenames of your split topics. I don't currently use this feature at all
(the generated filenames work fine for me), but I know it is an option.
Mif2go has many other very useful features, such as the ability to insert
custom pieces of html in all sorts of places, like before and after topic
titles. This gives you considerable flexibility for making topics originally
written for print look very good as html.
I did not find the learning curve for mif2go to be very difficult, but maybe
that is because I was very familiar with Frame and the templates we use for
our docs. The hardest part is figuring out how I want the output to look;
once I know that, making mif2go do what I want has been pretty easy.
The company is extremely responsive to questions and enhancement requests,
as well.
Sara Schertz
Senior Technical Writer
Interface Software, Inc
sschertz -at- interfacesoftware -dot- com
Personal site: http://users.foxvalley.net/~sschertz/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Melinda Carr [mailto:melinda -at- sane -dot- com]
> The situation: I write manuals in FrameMaker 6.0 using
> conditional text to
> produce three different versions of the manual. The manual is
> then converted
> to HTML and used as context-sensitive help for our app which
> runs inside a
> Web browser.
...
> Save As HTML works pretty well, and I've tweaked most of the styles to
> eliminate manual tweaking of the HTML files. I also gotten
> FrameMaker to
> place each Heading 1 topic in its own HTML file per my boss's
> request. Links
> work well. Now the trouble is that I need to know ahead of
> time what the
> name of each HTML file will be, so the programmers can link to it.
> Currently, I have no control over the names FrameMaker gives
> the files when
> it splits the topics into separate HTML.
>
> The questions: Is what I'm trying to do possible? Do I need
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