3 Replies Latest reply: Oct 15, 2014 12:06 PM by TechWriterKat2 RSS

    How can I import an existing 900-topic RH10 project into FrameMaker12?

    TechWriterKat2 Community Member
    TechWriterKat2 Oct 15, 2014 11:36 AM

      I see lots of information in the forums about going from Frame to RoboHelp, but not the other way. Our company purchased FrameMaker in order to avoid the extremely painful process of converting our online help source into a book using Microsoft Word, which works fine for books under a few hundred pages, but it is a nightmare for the 1600-page PDFs that we produce.  Can anybody tell me if it is possible to import a project from RoboHelp10 to FrameMaker12?

        • 1. Re: How can I import an existing 900-topic RH10 project into FrameMaker12?
          Jeff_Coatsworth CommunityMVP
          Jeff_Coatsworth Oct 15, 2014 11:43 AM (in response to TechWriterKat2)

          Nope, it’s a one-way street with the idea that your authoring is all in FM and your publishing is in RH. Now with the expansion of the Publishing functions in FM, RH isn’t needed as much unless you want to link the FM content to an ongoing RH project.

           

          You might try experimenting with importing the PDF into FM to see what sort of results you can achieve. Going from RH to FM is not a painless task.

          • 3. Re: How can I import an existing 900-topic RH10 project into FrameMaker12?
            TechWriterKat2 Community Member
            TechWriterKat2 Oct 15, 2014 12:06 PM (in response to Jeff_Coatsworth)

            Hi Jeff,

             

            Thanks for the response and to the link to the old thread. I can't remember if I saw it or not, actually because I was under the (false) impression that the newer versionswould allow me to maintain source in RH, and import it to Frame when it was time to create a printed user manual. So I don't think I searched on anything this old.  I haven't used Framemaker since the early 1990s, but from what I am reading, it sounds like we would have to maintain our documentation in Frame, and import it to RH when we want to create online help for our project.  Perhaps I am stuck on the way we have been doing things for the past 7 years, but the online help, like the product code, changes frequently.  It is not until just before the final version ships that our tech writers consider the RH source stable enough to convert it and create printed documentation.

             

            Kat Z Ross

             

             

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