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Subject:Re: robohelp vs. webworks From:TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 6 Dec 2004 13:27:12 -0500
> Is true
> single-sourcing even possible using Framemaker>Robohelp?
No. It was with RH for FM, but that product has been discontinued.
> I'm looking for features I'm accustomed to in Webworks and already hitting
> lots of roadblocks (e.g. is it possible to maintain FM conditions?).
Not sure about conditions, but it's really moot given the RH workflow.
You need to import your FM source into RH and transform it into a
format RH can understand and use. You then have 2 versions of your
"source files": a RH one and a FM one. You're then stuck in a
repurposing or multisourcing workflow.
> The
> goal is for my team, having applied conditions to their user guides and
> using a help template that I create, to be able to generate their help files
> with the click of a button (the way you can using webworks).
Fat chance. Sorry to be blunt, but RH doesn't allow for that.
> From what I
> can see now, my team is copying and pasting procedures from Frame into
> Robohelp.
You can probably set it up for direct import into RH, but in the end,
you won't ever be single-sourcing with FM and RH.
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