Frame Light, what's the potential market?

[Jeremy H. Griffith]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:19:35 -0600, Mike Wickham <info at mikewickham.com> wrote:

>
>> I think it was a mistake for FrameMaker 10 not to include ePub output 
>> directly from FrameMaker.  I can output an ePub straight from InDesign 
>> or straight from Apple Pages, but I need the full TCS3 to output ePub 
>> through RoboHelp.
>>
>When I saw the announcement of RJ Jacquez' webinar on producing EPUB, I 
>was excited. That's a feature I could use. Then I watched the webinar 
>and saw that RoboHelp would also be required, and was disappointed. The 
>logic, according to RJ, was that Adobe chose to put Web output into 
>RoboHelp and print output into FM. But, sheesh. Those of us who create 
>print books have no need for any of the help or Web features in 
>RoboHelp, but it would be nice to port a book easily into EPUB. There's 
>no way I'm going to spend the $1300 to upgrade to TCS3 just for that 
>capability, though.
>
>So maybe a RoboHelp Extra Lite is what I want-- EPUB only. Or, maybe now 
>that ExtendScript is hooked into FM, some third party will create a 
>reasonably priced script that would do the conversion.

For ePub output, consider Calibre, which is free:
  http://calibre-ebook.com/

You can feed it with the HTML output of Mif2Go or ePP.
Maybe even the Frame native HTML, never tried that.
Or perhaps your PDF; it's flexible.
-- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
  <jeremy at omsys.com>  http://www.omsys.com/