FrameMaker Features: popus, collapsing sections, hyperlinks/cross-references

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April 11, 2013
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Hello, and thanks in advance for the help.

I am required to write a ~1000 page manual in Adobe FrameMaker 11. The manual is to be accessed online, but also available in printable version. The online version should include:
- popups
- collapsing sections

- hyperlinks/cross-references.

Are these features available in FrameMaker by itself?

I know it is a beginner-level question, but the answers I have found online either use additional programs such as Robohelp, or are not straightforward enough for me to understand. I would like to know if FrameMaker 11 is enough by itself to produce a manual with the features I mentioned above.

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Jeff_Coatsworth

Community Expert

The native FM to HTML output is reputed to be fairly poor - that's why products like Mif2Go are so successful. You can also go the Technical Communication Suite route that allows you to link your FM content to a RH project and product a variety of online forms of help. I have no idea how to accomplish popups in FM that would get exported properly to online help, but DHTHL hotspots will do your collapsing sections, and hyperlinks/xrefs are all handled very well by FM.

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FrameMakerNoobAuthor

Participant

Thanks a lot Jeff!
I think I will go with the Technical Communication Suite, and just implement the popups in Robohelp. As a fairly new user, I was confused by the possibilty of producing HTML directly from FrameMaker, because it led me to wonder what sort of features could be handled there. Now I understand, if I want Dynamic HTML stuff, I should export the project to Robohelp.

Again, thanks a lot.

Arnis Gubins

Inspiring

Hello,

I was away for a few days and did not get the chance to reply.

You are right, the Popup Menu in FrameMaker does not fit the "Tooltip" use, it has more of a "Menu" feel and purpose.

Matt, as you can infer from my previous sentence, I'm looking for general Text-Only type of popups that could serve as glossary definitions. I don't think they can be implemented in FM, so I'll have to live with implementing them in RH.

Thanks a lot for the help!

Before you rule out implementing that sort of featture in PDF, see what Shlomo Perets does in PDFs using his Timesavers Tools & Assistants (http://www.microtype.com/showcase.html)

Example pdf: http://www.microtype.com/showcase/FormAsst/SP_RolloverPop_demo.pdf

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