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Matt-Tech Comm Tools
Matt-Tech Comm Tools
Community Expert
February 1, 2019

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?

-Matt SullivanFrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant
joshwerth
joshwerthAuthor
Participating Frequently
February 1, 2019

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.

    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    February 1, 2019

    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).

    joshwerth
    joshwerthAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    February 1, 2019

    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.

    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Jeff_Coatsworth
    Community Expert
    February 1, 2019

    "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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