<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>In Tech Comm Suite, Frame and Robohelp are linked. You just link your Robohelp file to the book file or ditamap and create your help. No need for manual anything.<br></div><div><br></div><div>-Gillian</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Spencer Huff" <sch@terrasim.com><br><b>To: </b>"framers" <framers@lists.frameusers.com><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, January 2, 2015 3:18:47 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Suggested workflows for single-sourcing with FrameMaker -> RoboHelp + P4V<br><div><br></div>Good day everyone,<br><div><br></div>For the last few years, my company has been working towards <br>single-sourcing the documentation we create (e.g. user manuals and <br>integrated program help) for all of our products. We have one big <br>product and quite a few smaller products, with each one having its own <br>user manual and integrated help. We use Adobe FrameMaker 11 and <br>RoboHelp 10 to create and manage the content for our user manuals and <br>integrated help respectively. We also use Perforce P4V for version <br>control. Content typically is authored in FrameMaker first before being <br>exported into RoboHelp as a .book file, which is then used to build our <br>integrated help system.<br><div><br></div>Currently, half of our smaller products are single-sourced while the <br>rest are curated by hand. We'd eventually like to have all of our <br>products be single-sourced. However, even with the products that are <br>already single-sourced, we're having some issues with how our authoring <br>software interacts with our version-control software. We've also had <br>problems converting back and forth between .FM and .MIF formats. My <br>question here is two-fold.<br><div><br></div>First, what is a good workflow(s) for single-sourcing content using <br>FrameMaker, RoboHelp, and version control software? Second, are there <br>are other tools that we could use for such a workflow? For instance, <br>there's been some consideration about switching from FrameMaker to <br>MadCap Flare. What is MadCap Flare better at doing than FM for <br>single-sourcing? What can be done to convert from using FM to MadCap <br>Flare? What would be potentially lost in doing<br>such a switch? We've also been considering switch to the Adobe Creative <br>Cloud, but before we make a decision one way or another, we'd like to <br>nail these details down.<br><div><br></div>Any and all insight would be greatly appreciated. If further details <br>are required, I'd be happy to give them to the best of my ability.<br><div><br></div>-- <br>Spencer C. Huff<br>Corporate Communications Specialist<br>TerraSim, Inc. (412) 232-3646 x 23<br>One Gateway Center, Suite 2050 (412) 232-3649 (Fax)<br>420 Fort Duquesne Blvd sch@terrasim.com<br>Pittsburgh, PA 15222 http://www.terrasim.com<br><div><br></div>_______________________________________________<br><div><br></div><br>You are currently subscribed to framers as gill6034@comcast.net.<br><div><br></div>Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com.<br><div><br></div>To unsubscribe send a blank email to<br>framers-unsubscribe@lists.frameusers.com<br>or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/gill6034%40comcast.net<br><div><br></div>Send administrative questions to listadmin@frameusers.com. Visit<br>http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>