Help Creation Flow and Upgrading from version 7.2 to the latest version

Tue May 12 06:15:57 PDT 2015

That's exactly how I did it (full jump from FM7 to 12). I also took the FM 
essentials course in Lynda.com, which covered all of the new stuff with 
the UI.

Tom Beiswenger
Manager, Technical & Training Documentation, Project Manager - Inspection 
Business
Emhart Glass Mfg. Inc.
1140 Sullivan St.
Elmira, NY 14901
PH: +607 735-4279
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Email: tom.beiswenger at emhartglass.com

From:   Jeff Coatsworth <Jeff.Coatsworth at jonasclub.com>
To:     "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
Date:   05/12/2015 09:00 AM
Subject:        RE: Help Creation Flow and Upgrading from version 7.2 to 
the latest      version
Sent by:        framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com

You can now create all those from FM12 directly; however, the learning 
curve will be a bit of a shock - the UI changed completely starting in 
FM9. I think at 7.2 you're over the Unicode barrier already so fonts may 
or may not be an issue. Some finer control over the publishing 
(generating) of help outputs can be done using the Tech Comm Suite (which 
includes RH, FM, Acrobat Pro & Captivate), but may not be necessary in 
your case. Personally, I'd download a trial copy of TCS5 and try it out on 
a non-production machine with copies of your FM7.2 content & play around 
with it for the 30 days of the trial.

-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [
mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Caroline Tabach
Sent: May-12-15 5:53 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Help Creation Flow and Upgrading from version 7.2 to the latest 
version

Hi,

At the moment we are using FrameMaker 7.2 and ePublisher Pro version 9.2 
to  create PDF files, and a collections of help files which are mostly 
html,  with 2 or 3 .chm files

The applications mostly run on Internet Explorer (and the .chm files are 
for the 2 that are not over IE).

I would like to upgrade our applications as they do not really run on my 
current operating system and because I want to also produce more modern 
output.

I need to make PDF, ePub, Responsive html and .chm.

What do you all recommend?
Is FrameMaker 12 enough to use stand alone?

Do I need ePublisher Pro or RoboHelp?

How would I go about importing my Frame 7.2 files into Frame 12.
Does it support them or would I need to save as MIF and then open the MIF 
files.
I have quite a lot of user guides.

 To what extent will FrameMaker let me change the design?

What is the learning curve from 7.2 to 12?

thanks

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Caroline Tabach
Technical/Marcom Writer
e-mail: caroline at radcom.com
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