FM 12 + RH 11 OR WebWorks ePublisher

[Keith Soltys]

I’m running WebWorks on a six-year-old quad-core Pentium with 2 GB RAM under Windows XP, with my books and projects stored on our network, and have never found performance to be a serious issue. Mind you, my largest document is only about 300 pages if printed.

I don’t think getting stationery or templates set up correctly is any more time consuming in WebWorks than it would be in RoboHelp or in the Publish module of Frame 12. Most of the work is mapping your document’s styles to the proper online format, which is a similar process in all three programs. If you have manual customizations (tweaks to CSS or scripts made outside of the GUI), it’s true that update releases can cause problems, but recent versions of WebWorks make it pretty straightforward to find the source of any problems.

Regards
Keith



From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of grant at hedgewizard.net
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 10:48 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: FM 12 + RH 11 OR WebWorks ePublisher

ePub is quite good at creating PDFs, but there are a couple of caveats:
1. It does not work on a remote Citrix desktop.  (I suspect that it might have problems with others, but have no experience with them)
2. It *really* wants a modern system with lots of RAM (>8GB ) and drive space.  It will work on lesser machines, but you might as well go see a movie while you are waiting.

Finally: It takes quite a while to get the stationery (templates) set up correctly, and there are problems with the stationery for one release not always working with another release (or update).

Grant

> On March 12, 2014 at 3:00 PM Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com<mailto:robert at lauriston.com>> wrote:
>
> As long as you're evaluating alternatives, you should check out
> WebWorks ePublisher. It can use Word, FrameMaker, and/or DITA as
> source and the output. I haven't looked at its PDF output since my
> source was in FrameMaker, but it kicked RoboHelp 10 to the curb as far
> as web help.

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