Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)

[Zoe Lawson]

To the best of my knowledge, help conversion tools produced by the Quadralay/Webworks company (they've rebranded, and I never remember what their 'real' name is) are still in common use.

However, I do not believe that Quadralay/Webworks is really actively supporting 7.0 that much (or if they are, for very much longer). 

In version 9 (rebranded to ePublisher), they completely changed their paradigm, so most anything you'd learn in 7.0 would not be useful in current versions of ePublisher (current version is 2008.4).

Also, you can not edit your styles, etc. with Standard Edition. It will convert your Frame to help and that's it, you can't really customize at all. 

I strongly believe in ePubisher. The paradigm shift has moved it towards a publishing engine, so you can point it at FrameMaker, Word, XML, or combination of files and generate output. If you're willing to learn XSL, you can customize their output choices to do almost anything you want.

For more information about Webworks and ePublisher, poke around on www.webworks.com and the yahoo user group, wwp-users. There's also wiki.webworks.com which goes into a lot of nitty gritty details about customizing ePublisher.

You can contact me off list if you have other questions.

Zoë Lawson




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From: Nancy Allison <maker at verizon.net>
Cc: framers at frameusers.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 9:38:25 AM
Subject: Usage of WebWorks (ePublisher)

Sorry for sloppy subject line in my previous post. Here it is again, slightly improved: 


At this late date, I am getting my first chance to use Webworks Standard Edition 7.0 to create HTML Help. Out of curiosity, is WebWorks still in common use? Has it been surpassed by other tools? I'm wondering how much effort to put into learning this, or if it would be as wise as really immersing myself in an ancient copy of ForeHelp.

Any knowledge on this topic greatly appreciated.

--Nancy
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