Generating web pages out of FM

[Keith Soltys]

I’ve been using an evaluation copy of FrameMaker to test the online capabilities.

The most capable format is the Responsive HTML5, which is comparable to the Reverb format in Quadralay’s WebWorks ePublisher.  It includes a slick skin editor that lets you customize the visual appearance. As with all of the output formats in Frame 12, you can control the text formatting by mapping your Frame styles to the online CSS styles.

I think you could get a very good looking set of pages out of this format, but whether you can customize it enough to meet your needs is an open question. For example, I haven’t been able to add a footer below the content that contains a table with our logo, contact information, and a copyright notice. I do this in WebWorks by editing the page template file, but I haven’t figured out how to do this with the Frame templates – there doesn’t appear to be any documentation about low-level customization like this.

You might want to download a trial copy of Frame 12 and try it out. The new publishing features are a big improvement over previous versions, but I don’t think offer the customization capabilities of either WebWorks ePublisher or the full TCS with RoboHelp.

Regards
Keith



From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Austin Meredith
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 3:53 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Generating web pages out of FM

A message from a Doubting Thomas: We read Adobe's assertion, that with the latest version of FM we become able to transform our files directly into good-looking web pages. However, this isn't the first time the corporation has claimed this for its product and with earlier versions of FM it simply was not true. Now the latest version of FM has been available for some months and yet we haven't seen anyone claim on this discussion list, that this time they have succeeded.

We're standing by, to purchase a new PC with the latest Microsoft operating system and such, on which to install this latest FM version. Funding has been approved and we're ready to go to town! --But, we're hesitant. A scalded dog runs away from dishwater.

What gives? Has anyone actually done this yet? Has anyone now been able to directly transform their FM files into good-looking web pages? Can someone provide the URL for an example of this?

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