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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Don’t let the absence of Illustrator in TCS5 put you off – just keep your older TCS4 version around; that’s what I’ve done with my TCS3 version of Photoshop ;>)<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";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"> framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces@lists.frameusers.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Davis, David<br>
<b>Sent:</b> May-01-14 5:06 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Trying out CHM generation in Frame12<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Hello frameusers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">This week I’ve been playing with the 30 day trial of FrameMaker 12.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Most of my work at the moment has been generating HTML Help: my existing workflow has been with TechComm Suite 4, authoring in Frame 11, linking the books into RoboHelp 10 and generating CHMs from there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">I’ve found that workflow a bit cumbersome, and struggled quite a bit to get my CHM files looking the same as my Frame source
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">(although I mostly got there in the end, not least with some help from others on this list…)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">I’m trying to see whether I could just use Frame 12 instead, and forget about RoboHelp and TechComm Suite. (As I don’t need the multiplicity of output
formats the latter can produce.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">The dialog boxes for configuring CHM output from Frame 12 look very familiar (
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:black">J</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> yes, they’re straight out of RoboHelp) and I was quickly and easily able
to achieve about 95% of what I’d been doing in TCS4.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">The only ‘gotcha’ I have encountered is this:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Creating a CHM from Frame12 still ignores anything that was on a Master Page or Reference Page – so any ‘boilerplate’ graphics etc get ditched.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">In TCS4, I’d instead used RoboHelp “Master Pages” to append a boilerplate footer to each CHM topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Am I right that I can’t do this with Frame12 alone? Or is there some workaround I’m overlooking?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">(Sadly I don’t think I can do without this feature, so if it can’t be done in Frame12 alone I’ll need to stick with TCS4… TCS5 is no good as it
doesn’t have Illustrator, as many of you have already noted……)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Also, the “Glossary” feature in Frame12 seems to be broken – I ought to be able to include “GlossaryTerm” markers on words, and have the marker text
displayed in the CHM as tooltips, pop-ups, etc. It doesn’t appear to work though (other people have confirmed the same issue on the Adobe Forums). Has anyone here tried this successfully?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:green;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">David</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
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