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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Easy as pie – use conditional text in your FM docs for the US/UK parts – use RH to import your FM content for help builds or get TCS to link your FM source
to a RH project. Continue to use FM for making good-looking PDFs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Lots of resources for doing this on the Adobe Forums & TCS blog pages and on the TCS Google Group mailing list and to a lesser extent the HATT mailing list.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Terri Schultz<br>
<b>Sent:</b> August-08-13 4:29 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Change workflow to use FM and RH together?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Background: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">My department uses FrameMaker 11, unstructured, and RoboHelp 10.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We do user's manuals in FrameMaker (one version for the US and one version for the UK) as separate books; minimal use of variables and/or conditional text. These docs are made available to
customers as PDFs. I've used FM for 15+ years and consider myself an average FM user, not a power user. I used to use variables at a previous job, but my current job/co-workers don't use variables/conditional text.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We do help files in RoboHelp, one help project for the US and one help project for the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">There are many smaller/ancillary documents done in FM, InDesign, and or Word. These docs are made available to customers as PDFs. I consider myself a beginner/basic RoboHelp user. I use RoboHelp,
but it is mostly editing content and applying pre-existing styles, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The powers-that-be don't see that the
<i>information </i>is the same (or mostly the same) between the help and the docs (I am trying to convince them that this is the way it is). One issue that is *always* raised is that the docs have pictures/screenshots/images and the help doesn't. There are
also discussions about using MindTouch to deliver information to customers; I don't know if that means that we would stop using FM and RH. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Questions:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">1. I know that we could (possibly) have one set of FM files that could be used to provide a US document and a UK document. I don't know *where* to start to make this happen. I don't have
any authority to spend money and there is no budget to pay for consulting. I am looking for free advice/suggestions where to find out
<i>how </i>to do this. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">2. I believe we could either use our FM files to create help, or use our help files to create docs. As with #1, I want to know where to learn
<i>how </i>to do this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I'm not looking for theory/big picture ideas. I need some nuts-and-bolts, how-to advice. At the very least, I want to show that we could gain some efficiency if we stop maintaining one set
of FM source files for the US and another set for the UK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I hope this makes sense. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thank you for any and all suggestions!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Terri<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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