Re: FrameMaker and WebWorks

["Brierley, Sean" <Brierley -at- QUODATA -dot- COM>]

Hallo:

1. Check out http://www.quadralay.com for information about WebWorks
Publisher (WWP). 5.02 is the latest release.

2. WWP takes FrameMaker files and converts them to online help format.
Supported formats includes the old winhelp variety, as well as plain HTML,
Microsoft's proprietary compiled HTMLHelp, Java-based HTML help . . ..

3. If, by "Web Works to create the HTML," you mean the FrameMaker docs are
to be used to create HTML-based online help, then WWP is an excellent,
powerful, difficult-to-learn tool (not helped much by the documentation,
which is thorough but also difficult to use).

4. If, , by "Web Works to create the HTML," you mean something other than
online help, then, yes, WWP gets you to HTML better than FrameMaker's OEM
filter. However, depending on the deliverable, I'd consider other routes,
such as delivery as PDF, or true web authoring tools (DreamWeaver,
Frontpage, HoTMetaL Pro, etc.).

5. Good luck with the job!!!

Sean
sean -at- quodata -dot- com

>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Sybille Sterk [mailto:sybille -at- BOFFIN -dot- BEYOND2000 -dot- CO -dot- UK]

>>>
>>>Hiya,
>>>

>>>
>>>They would like to create HTML based user documentation,
>>>which has no Java
>>>script in it whatsoever, so people don't get put off by
>>>having to download
>>>this and the other applet... They want to use Frame Maker
>>>for the printed
>>>documentation (very likely this will be converted into PDF
>>>files which the
>>>user can then download from the net) and - the lady wasn't
>>>quite so sure
>>>about this - Web Works to create the HTML.
>>>
>>>I don't know very much about either Frame Maker nor Web
>>>Works... Do they
>>>really need Web Works...? What exactly does Web Works do?
>>>
>>>TIA,
>>>
>>>Sybille
>>>
>>>


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