ebooks from FM books - via robohelp or some other way?

[Scott Prentice]

I'm pretty sure that you can link RH to FM even if you're not using TCS 
.. download the trial and give it a test to see how it works for you. 
Also Webworks ePublisher can export to EPUB.

Other less expensive options may be ..

- save the FM files to Word, then use Calibre to convert from RTF to EPUB
- save the FM files to PDF and use one of the many available converters 
to go from PDF to EPUB
- save to RTF or DOC and open in Atlantis Word Processor then output to EPUB

A list of authoring tools and converters is available here ..

    http://www.epubtest.com/resources.php

YMMV.

Cheers,

...scott


rebecca officer wrote:
> Hi everyone
>  
> We've got multi-chapter documents where the source files are 
> unstructured FM10 book files. We'd like to publish as epub files too.
>  
> What software are people using for that?
>  
> We've just played with Elmsoft's new EPubFm but it doesn't work on 
> book files, just standalone FM files. We don't have the resources to 
> convert to structured FM, and the books are format-heavy enough that 
> save-as-html looks crappy.
>  
> Adobe's marketing material shows FM with an epub option if you're 
> using FM and Robohelp from the Tech Comms Suite. We haven't got the 
> suite - does anyone know if you can get this FM option by just adding 
> Robohelp on top of a standard FM installation?
>  
> Any advice or success stories gratefully accepted!
>  
> Cheers
> Rebecca
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