Frame Light, what's the potential market?

[Lea Rush]

There's a brief but detailed discussion on this on the Adobe forums:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2646481

> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-
> bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Mike Wickham
> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2011 4:20 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Frame Light, what's the potential market?
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Mike Wickham


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