FrameMaker to Flare Conversion

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Has anyone in this community ever converted FrameMaker files to Flare files, without having any version of FrameMaker installed?

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Matt-Tech Comm Tools

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A quick internet search should yield some advice on this, and I'd expect you will also need to download a 30-day trial of FrameMaker.

Interesting that you want to move away from FrameMaker...

Since Fm's digital output is excellent, and Flare's PDF/print conversion of their XHTML base code necessarily isn't as good as Fm, do you no longer have a print requirement?

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joshwerthAuthor

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Moving away from FrameMaker was not my decision. There's more to this story that I'll gladly share if anyone would care to hear it.

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Jeff_Coatsworth

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Nope - not a chance. I'm also 99.9% sure that Flare doesn't have an import for .fm or .book binary files. If you're migrating your FM content out, you're probably going to have to load a trial copy of FM to be able to generate some form of output that Flare can digest. I'm also 100% sure that the process will be painful (the import into Flare & processing of it once there).

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joshwerthAuthor

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I wish I had been able to install a trial version, but wasn't given the rights to do that. And it's 100% that Flare doesn't have an import for .fm or .book binary files.

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Jeff_Coatsworth

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"I wish I had been able to install a trial version, but wasn't given the rights to do that."

Well that makes things real simple then - "you don't give me the tools, so you don't see your content again! Bwah-ha-ha!"

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