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I don't know if this is an option for you: There is a product named WebWorks Publisher which is designed for converting FrameMaker files directly into help systems. It provides a very extensive set of functions for mapping the Frame paragraph and character tags into styles for the finished output. I used it years ago and while I did have to spend a significant amount of time tweaking the mappings, once I got them right the converstions were pretty close to flawless.
I remember that WebWorks would output the Frame files as either a CHM file or as Java help. I believe it had other output formats but I don't remember anything about them because I never used them.
--- On Fri, 8/7/09, Karen Field Carroll <kfcarroll -at- cox -dot- net> wrote:
> From: Karen Field Carroll <kfcarroll -at- cox -dot- net>
> Subject: FrameMaker to RoboHelp Conversions
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Date: Friday, August 7, 2009, 1:06 PM
> Good day, everyone.
>
> I've finally surrendered to single-source thinking, so I'm
> converting my
> Frame user guides to RoboHelp (via import from RoboHelp).
> Even with a CSS,
> however, I spend a lot of time reformatting content once
> it's in RH. Is
> there a better way to do this? Should I convert the Frame
> book to HTML first
> and then import to RH? ANY advice would be great. Thanks!
>
>
>
> Karen Field Carroll
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> Sr. Technical Writer, Author
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> Free Software Documentation Project Web Cast: Covers
> developing Table of
> Contents, Context IDs, and Index, as well as
> Doc-To-Help
> 2009 tips, tricks, and best practices.
>http://www.doctohelp.com/SuperPages/Webcasts/
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Free Software Documentation Project Web Cast: Covers developing Table of
Contents, Context IDs, and Index, as well as Doc-To-Help
2009 tips, tricks, and best practices. http://www.doctohelp.com/SuperPages/Webcasts/
Help & Manual 5: The complete help authoring tool for individual
authors and teams. Professional power, intuitive interface. Write
once, publish to 8 formats. Multi-user authoring and version control! http://www.helpandmanual.com/
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