Thank you to everyone who answered. Richard, this works like a charm and gets me to where I need to be in short order. I'll evaluate Mif2Go in the semi-near future when I don't have a software release breathing down my neck. :)
As others have said, this list rocks! Lea _________________________________ Lea Rush Software and Documentation Specialist Astoria-Pacific International PO Box 830 Clackamas OR 97015 PH: 800-657-3010 FAX: 503-655-7367 -----Original Message----- From: framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Combs, Richard Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 4:14 PM To: Lea Rush; Framers Subject: RE: Frame 8, Save As to 7 and WebWorks Pro Lea Rush wrote: > Frame 8.0p277 > > WebWorks Standard 7.0.1 > > Vista Business SP1 > > > > I knew when I bought Frame 8 that it didn't play well with Webworks. I > thought I'd be able to Save As to a Frame 7 book and files before importing > it into WW. Now, when I need to generate a *.chm in the next week or so, I > find that it doesn't work that way. I can point the project to my saved-to- > 7 > book, but when it starts to incorporate the book, I get an error: > > > > "The wizard was unable to scan documents in your project." WebWorks doesn't open the FM files itself, it uses FM to open them in the background (and in fact, works much faster and more smoothly if you open all the files in FM beforehand). So you can't just save back to the FM 7 file format. But what you can do is have both FM 8 and 7 installed on your system. Author in FM 8. Then when you're ready to do the help, save (copies of) the files in FM 7 format, open them in FM 7, and then fire up WebWorks. Since you already have FM 8 installed and not 7, there may be a little fussing required to make everything play nice together. Different versions of FM co-exist just fine, but the last one installed will get the file associations. You may need to remove WW, install FM 7, and re-install WW to make sure it works with FM 7 (the FM 7 maker.ini file needs to invoke the WW plugin). As Art pointed out, though, WW Standard is pretty crippled, and this should be considered a short-term solution only. Long-term, consider moving to Mif2Go, a current, full version of WW, or the Adobe Tech Comm Suite, depending on your budget, needs, and preferred way of working. HTH! Richard _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as l...@astoria-pacific.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/lea%40astoria-pacific.co m Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.