Frame 8, Save As to 7 and WebWorks Pro

[Lea Rush]

Thank you to everyone who answered. Richard, this works like a charm and
gets me to where I need to be in short order. I'll evaluate Mif2Go in the
semi-near future when I don't have a software release breathing down my
neck. :)

As others have said, this list rocks!
Lea


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Lea Rush 
Software and Documentation Specialist 
Astoria-Pacific International 
PO Box 830 Clackamas OR 97015 
PH: 800-657-3010 
FAX:  503-655-7367 

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Combs, Richard
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:14 PM
To: Lea Rush; Framers
Subject: RE: Frame 8, Save As to 7 and WebWorks Pro

Lea Rush wrote: 
 
> Frame 8.0p277
> 
> WebWorks Standard 7.0.1
> 
> Vista Business SP1
> 
> 
> 
> I knew when I bought Frame 8 that it didn't play well with Webworks. I
> thought I'd be able to Save As to a Frame 7 book and files before
importing
> it into WW. Now, when I need to generate a *.chm in the next week or
so, I
> find that it doesn't work that way. I can point the project to my
saved-to-
> 7
> book, but when it starts to incorporate the book, I get an error:
> 
> 
> 
> "The wizard was unable to scan documents in your project."

WebWorks doesn't open the FM files itself, it uses FM to open them in
the background (and in fact, works much faster and more smoothly if you
open all the files in FM beforehand). So you can't just save back to the
FM 7 file format. 

But what you can do is have both FM 8 and 7 installed on your system.
Author in FM 8. Then when you're ready to do the help, save (copies of)
the files in FM 7 format, open them in FM 7, and then fire up WebWorks. 

Since you already have FM 8 installed and not 7, there may be a little
fussing required to make everything play nice together. Different
versions of FM co-exist just fine, but the last one installed will get
the file associations. You may need to remove WW, install FM 7, and
re-install WW to make sure it works with FM 7 (the FM 7 maker.ini file
needs to invoke the WW plugin). 

As Art pointed out, though, WW Standard is pretty crippled, and this
should be considered a short-term solution only. Long-term, consider
moving to Mif2Go, a current, full version of WW, or the Adobe Tech Comm
Suite, depending on your budget, needs, and preferred way of working. 

HTH!
Richard
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