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Lance_Santin
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April 15, 2010
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FrameMaker 9 and RoboHelp integration

  • April 15, 2010
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Has anyone been using RoboHelp 8 with FrameMaker 9? How does this compare to using WebWorks ePublisher? What's the difference in the integration between FrameMaker 9 and the two different Help products?

Thanks!

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    Zachem19
    Participant
    April 16, 2010

    Hello Lance,

    There are many differences between Robohelp and Webworks.
    Both of them can create online-help and PDF.
    The unique  feature of Robohelp is the possibility to create AIR Help.
    The TCS includes Robohelp.

    The unique  feature of WebWorks is the possibility to create wiki-output, PDF XSL-FO.
    WebWorks ePublisher is more recent, based completely on XSLT and has long time experience
    to interact with FrameMaker (since FM4 and of course with FM9).
    WebWorks ePublisher can convert Word, FramerMaker and DITA.

    My company use WebWorks ePublisher with FrameMaker to create large technical documentation
    for our customer and it works great. We have also some experiences with Robohelp,

    but we prefer WebWorks ePublisher

    Zachem19

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    Art Campbell
    Inspiring
    April 16, 2010

    Also check out the Technical Communications Users Group at http://groups.google.com/group/TCS-Users?hl=en.

    If you're seriously looking at this combo, it makes more sense to use the TCS than stand-alone programs because the Suite includes hooks and additional code that don't ship with the individual programs.

    One other option that I like better than RH for some projects is MIF2Go by www.omsys.com. That's not to say that RH doesn't work well; it's just that each conversion route has some strengths that the other doesn't.

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    Lance_SantinAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    April 16, 2010

    Art--I'll check out that group too. Thanks very much.

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    Anonymous
    April 16, 2010

    Lance, have you checked out the RoboHelp forum section, you'd likely get more replies there:

    http://forums.adobe.com/community/robohelp


    Sheila

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    Lance_SantinAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    April 16, 2010

    Thanks Sheila--that helps! I'll check it out.

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