framers Digest, Vol 99, Issue 6

[Davis, David]

Am intrigued by the claim you can now save .CHMs (HTML Help) natively from Frame 12.
Most of the past year I have been faffing around in TechCommSuite 4, basically trying to so nothing more complicated than author in Frame and make a CHM out of it. I have not found it very easy or intuitive at all: basically RoboHelp breaks everything out of the box, and I've found it very arduous making everything just look the way it was in Frame in the first place! (Unless you choose settings to just have things "As Source", which I keep getting told I shouldn't do because it generates atrocious HTML).

If I can now do "Save As... CHM" and just tweak a few output settings (same way as I tweak a few Distiller job options for Save As ...PDF) that would be a lot less fuss! And there'd be no need to fork out for Tech Comm Suite 5 - so I could save the money and buy Illustrator instead ;) 
(Sorry, rent Illustrator instead ... :/  )


Regards,

David Davis
Technical Author

Message: 2
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 07:57:14 +0000
From: "Reng, Dr. Winfried" <wreng at tycoint.com>
To: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Subject: FrameMaker 12 released
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Hi,

FrameMaker 12 is released now.
There are many links with information. See below.

Best regards

Winfried

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http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2014/01/framemaker-12-launch-blog.html

http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2014/01/technical-communication-suite-5-is-here.html

http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2014/01/product-o-pedia-2014.html

What's new in FrameMaker 12:
http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/features.html

Refer to the version comparison chart to see how FM has evolved:
wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/framemaker/framemaker-12/PDFs/FRAMEMAKER12_VERSION_COMPARISION.PDF

For answers to many questions on FM12, please see the FM12 FAQ http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/faq.html

What's new inTechCommSuite 5: TCS 5 Features http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/features.html

Refer to the version comparison to see how the TCS has evolved:
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/technicalcommunicationsuite/techcomsuite-5/pdf/TCS5_VERSION_COMPARISION.PDF

Reviews:
http://techwhirl.com/adobe-framemaker-12-first-look-review/
http://techwhirl.com/adobe-framemaker-xml-author-12-first-look-review/

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