RE: FrameMaker to RoboHelp Conversions

Subject: RE: FrameMaker to RoboHelp Conversions
From: "Karen Field Carroll" <kfcarroll -at- cox -dot- net>
To: "'Bill Swallow'" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:14:50 -0700

Thanks to everyone who's posted on this topic. I have WebWorks (it came with
the Frame software), so I think that's my next move.
Have a great week, everyone!

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Swallow [mailto:techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com]
Sent: Sunday, August 09, 2009 10:47 PM
To: Karen Field Carroll
Cc: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: Re: FrameMaker to RoboHelp Conversions

Are you using the Technical Communication Suite? RoboHelp and
FrameMaker should be able to cooperate now and allow you to map styles
easily. Have you set up templates in RoboHelp?

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Karen Field Carroll<kfcarroll -at- cox -dot- net>
wrote:
> 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!

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