Just charge "them" the time you spend (waste) on doing the job without the right tools. I'm sure you will come up with a figure which is a multiple of the price of MIF2Go (or even WebWorks ePublisher). Both MIF2Go and WebWorks ePublisher are GREAT value for money.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, even when Jeremy is so generous as to offer one. ;-) Cheers Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Nancy Allison <maker at verizon.net> wrote: > Jeremy wrote: > > > I just checked in the FM7 book Sarah O'Keefe wrote, and it > > appears Webworks *Standard*, the one Nancy was "required" > > to use, does not even support HTML Help at all. You'd have > > to use the regular HTML output, then create the index, toc, > > project file, alias and map files by hand, or at best do it > > with HTML Help Workshop, which is almost as bad. > > > Right you are! Webworks 7.0 Standard simply chops up the Framemaker file > into HTML files at the level you specify (ChapTitle, Heading1, Heading2) and > also saves all your graphics as .gif files with major color and pixellation > problems (and also restores all scaled drawings to their original, in some > cases immense, proportions). > > You then load all these files into HTML Help Workshop and manually create a > TOC, which includes typing in a name for each book and topic (I have only a > couple hundred HTML files, so this didn't take too long. Not in comparison > to the project I have coming up, anyway . . . ) > > Now I am trying to find out why my Note, Caution, and Warning icon > graphics have become as big as tablecloths and what I can do about them. > > I see so many things I could make so much better if I had the time and the > right tools, but alas, it is not to be. > > But wait! Jeremy wrote: > > If the client is merely trying to save money by using a > "free" tool, we'll *give* her a copy of Mif2Go. Nobody > should have to go through that process to keep a job... > > -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. > <jeremy at omsys.com> http://www.omsys.com/ > > Jeremy, do you really mean it? I would be thrilled. I think I could > convince them to accept it. I think. > > --Nancy > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to Framers as yves.barbion at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/yves.barbion%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
