[Framers] FrameMaker to Robohelp Integration

[Robert Lauriston]

WebWorks ePublisher Pro supports source in Word, DITA, and FrameMaker.

RoboHelp, Flare, and WebWorks can all produce professional-quality
PDFs. Pushing a client to FrameMaker when they've never used it
doesn't seem to me like a good move in 2022 unless maybe PDF and/or
print are the only deliverables.

On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:56 PM John Posada <jposada99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks, Robert. At this gig, RH is an established priority tool, Their
> content authoring starts in Word.
>
> Should this go through, after I've proven my worth, my intent is to try to
> switch them to FM as they need printed documentation/PDFs in addition to
> online help.
>
> I've done Online Helps using FM/WebWorks ePublisher Pro and I agree it is a
> better solution. However, it might be too much of a lift to revamp the
> WHOLE process than to upgrade in stages.
>
> Proposing RH/FM as an integrated authoring environment might be attractive.
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 3:27 PM Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
> wrote:
>
> > FrameMaker's multichannel publishing is a subset of RoboHelp features.
> > If that subset meets your needs, you don't need RoboHelp.
> >
> > I don't think the integration options have changed since I was using
> > them at my last job. Adobe documents importing FrameMaker into
> > RoboHelp, but I don't see that they have ever documented what seemed
> > to me the best practice, which is keeping the source in FrameMaker and
> > linking it to RoboHelp. I created sample projects and some
> > documentation:
> >
> > http://lauriston.com/fm10_link_to_rh9.zip
> >
> > At my last job we switched from RoboHelp to WebWorks ePublisher Pro,
> > which I thought was a far superior tool for generating online help and
> > web pages from FrameMaker source.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 12:35 PM John Posada <jposada99 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > What is the current state of the integration between Robohelp and
> > FrameMaker?
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