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Inspiring
Oct 7, 2022 2:40 PM UTC
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FrameMaker to RoboHelp ebook Kindle format

I am a Framemaker book developer. I have a customer that wants to convert his book from Word to FrameMaker and export to Amazon Mobi format. My understanding it that Fthe rameMaker book can convert to RoboHelp and RoboHelp can covert the book to Kindle (Mobi) ebook.

 

I have no experience with RoboHelp, so my question is whether there are explicit instructions to do the conversion from FrameMaker to RoboHelp ebook, OR what it might generally cost me to do the RoboHelp Kindle ebook coversion of the FrameMaker book. The book is about 250 pages and five chapters.

 

Thanks!

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Oct 7, 2022 3:52 PM UTC

    You should be able to publish to ePub directly from FM (it's been supported since FM12 I believe) & then you can use the free Calibre program to convert to MOBI.

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    Jeff_Coatsworth
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    Jeff_CoatsworthCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    Oct 7, 2022 3:52 PM UTC

    You should be able to publish to ePub directly from FM (it's been supported since FM12 I believe) & then you can use the free Calibre program to convert to MOBI.

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      defaultcbj1p6qywajqAuthor
      Inspiring
      Oct 7, 2022 4:55 PM UTC

      Thanks, Jeff. I wasn't aware that FrameMaker saved to ePub, because I never have used it. lol I did read a little something about Calibre, yesterday, but nothing more than it existed for Mobi conversions. Didn't know from what app outputs (ePub, etc.)

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      Jeff_Coatsworth
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      Oct 7, 2022 5:05 PM UTC

      FM doesn't really "save" to output formats (other than the old Save as PDF mechanism) - it's a publishing to outputs that's done now (even PDF has a new engine when created this way). The Publish "engine" is RoboHelp "under the hood" (that might be where your confusion came in about that) but it doesn't expose any of the controls that the more traditional FM to RH workflow has.

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      defaultcbj1p6qywajqAuthor
      Inspiring
      Oct 7, 2022 2:43 PM UTC

      Just read one of the other threads about Amazon not supporting ePub. Therefore, I guess I am stuck with publishing to PDF and then having Amazon publish to Mobi format. True?

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