Best practices for converting FM to Robohelp

[Robert Lauriston]

I always turn the backup feature off in FM preferences to get rid of
those files.

I created a cheat sheet for linking a FrameMaker project to a RoboHelp
project since I found Adobe's documentation unclear:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1100380?tstart=0

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 12:55 AM, Apurva Bahadur <apurva at writxt.com> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I am currently writing a book in FM 10 with about 30 individual FM files
> with a total of about 200 pages.
>
> My client wants outputs in pdf as well chm / webhelp formats. The pdf output
> through FM's own 'save as pdf' works very well and the file looks really
> great.
>
> When I try to 'publish' (File > Publish > select HTML), the resultant CHM is
> incomplete with only a few of the 30 files. As an alternative strategy, I
> tried to importing the FM book in Robohelp. In this case also, only the
> first few FM files from the book are imported in Robohelp.
>
> What am I doing wrong? And how do I get Robohelp to import the Framemaker
> document completely? Is there a limitation to the size of file that Robohelp
> can import?
>
> Regards,
>
> Apurva
>
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