Saving FM10 books as HTML

Report · Jul 08, 2011

Hi, my FrameMaker 10 (v 10.0.1.402, unstructured, on Windows 7 Enterprise SP1) wouldn't save books as HTML. It quits. The message says "Internal Error 100014, 7686536, 7686826, 10069773. FrameMaker has detected a serious problem and must quit."

The feature works perfectly for individual documents, but not for books. Please advise. Thanks!

Report · Jul 13, 2011

Hi again,

I also have problems when saving a book as XML. FrameMaker quits, but at least the .xml file is saved where I wanted it.

Does anyone have a clue, what's happening with this Save as HTML/XML "feature"?

Thank you.

Report · Jul 13, 2011

Must be another Fm 10 bug.

My advice: don't use Save as HTML, XML or RTF in Fm. Use MIF2Go instead. You can download a free trial version here:

http://www.omsys.com/dcl/download.htm

Cheers

Yves Barbion

www.scripto.nu

Report · Jul 13, 2011

Well, I am really counting on FrameMaker's single-source features. My primary output is .pdf, but for some products I need .txt, .doc or .html as well.

The .txt feature is also working just for single files, not for books, so I need to save the book as .html and then go through another tool (htmlastext), to get the .txt version. This was frustrating enough... but now, I can't even save as .html

Report · Jul 13, 2011

Well, I wouldn't count on FrameMaker for that type of "single-sourcing". I call this "multichannel publishing", i.e. saving or "publishing" your FrameMaker files in several output formats (PDF, txt, doc, html, xml...). You can do some quite sophisticated single sourcing in FrameMaker, using variables, text insets and conditional text, but the "Save as txt, html or doc" just isn't good enough in Fm. Believe me, the MIF2Go is VERY good value for money and well worth the $295:

http://www.omsys.com/dcl/pricing.htm

Kind regards

Yves Barbion

www.scripto.nu

Report · Jul 13, 2011

Magda, "single-sourcing" doesn't mean you only use one software package, it means that your source material is in one repository. What happens to your content after it leaves the repository is irrelevent because that process or software doesn't have any impact on your source..

So if you write in FM and output to any other format using either FM or MIF2Go (this is really the only way to go, although RoboHelp works fine for some people in some applications), you're still "single-sourcing."

Report · Jul 13, 2011

Thanks everybody, for your input. Yes, I used the wrong term, it's not about single-sourcing... Still, deciding to use multiple tools for generating output is also complicating the workflow of the whole team. FM10 is advertised as having these publishing features. If you all say they don't work, then... they are serious bugs, aren't they?

Report · Jul 13, 2011

I think it's related to expectations. It's kind of like... You can probbaly take a photograph with your phone. But if you haul out the digital SLR with a few lenses, and run the RAW file through Photoshop you're likely to end up with a better image.

Frame's HTML save will work and generate HTML, but MIF2Go outputs much better quality HTML and provides more options because it uses a different technology.

If you have everyone on the team outputting HTML, yes, they need multiple licenses. If you use a build-control model as most software organizations do and have one Build Master generate the combined results of everyone's work... then no, not really. Again, it depends on your workflow model, not the tool.

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