Frame to eBook

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Karen...

Not a direct solution, but I've got a very beta plugin called FM2Pages 
that generates an Apple Pages file from an FM file (for FM8 on up). At 
this point it's barely more than a proof of concept, and only exports 
the paragraph content and paragraph style names. But the intent is that 
you can use this to get from FM to Pages then import into iBooks Author 
or export from Pages to EPUB.

     http://leximation.com/tools/info/fm2pages.php

If you're interested in playing with this, contact me off-list.

Cheers,

...scott

Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892



On 2/10/12 10:17 AM, Karen Robbins wrote:
> Hello Framers,
>
> And if you use FrameMaker 9 (or even 10) for legacy Frame documents 
> under Parallels because you are a Mac shop? What better options might 
> we have?
>
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
>> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:45 +1300 (NZDT)
>> From: "Alan Litchfield" <alan at alphabyte.co.nz>
>> To: "Kapil Verma" <kverma at adobe.com>
>> Cc: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>,
>>     James Monaco <jmonaco at unet2.net>
>> Subject: RE: Frame to eBook
>> Message-ID:
>> <45962.156.62.3.23.1328827545.squirrel at webmail.ak.planet.gen.nz>
>> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I have recently done this investigation on behalf of a client. Of the 
>> methods
>> I explored (both published and home cooked), the approach described 
>> below is
>> by far the easiest I have found. It also provides for sufficient 
>> flexibility
>> and tweaking to provide for known device peculiarities, such as 
>> documents
>> intended for off-site technicians, etc.
>>
>> I am one who does not like long and complex processes in which there are
>> potential fail points built in when a short and simple approach is 
>> available.
>>
>> Regards
>> Alan Litchfield
>>
>> Kapil Verma wrote:
>>>  Vendor post: from Adobe Systems Incorporated
>>>
>>>  Hi James
>>>
>>>  I am the Product Manager of FrameMaker. There is currently a easy 
>>> way to
>>>  generate EPUB from your FrameMaker source, if you have Technical 
>>> Communication
>>>  Suite (TCS) (version 3 & above) OR FrameMaker Server (version 10 & 
>>> above). See
>>>  my recent blog post on this topic (along with some EPUB samples 
>>> that we
>>>  generated with this route)
>>>
>>>
>>> http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2011/12/publish-your-framemaker-content-to-mobile-devices.html 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  You can download a trial of these products by visiting the homepage at
>>>
>>>  TCS: http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite.html
>>>
>>>  FrameMaker Server: http://www.adobe.com/products/framemakerserver.html
>>>
>>>
>>>  It would be great if you can try it and let us know your feedback.
>>>
>>>
>>>  Thanks,
>>>  Kapil
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
>> AlphaByte
>> PO Box 1941, 1140, Auckland, New Zealand
>> http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
> http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice
>
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