Webworks standard is an early version of ePublisher. The Standard and Pro essentially mean that one cannot modify templates; the professional version can.
In any case, whatever tool you use is likely to achieve the look and feel of your help file by manipulating CSS style sheets, not by proprietary coding, so I think you have severral choices for help tools. If you've done massive amounts of tweaking to the ePublisher templates, that may be your easiest way to go. Along with that, I can't believe that their customer support department can't give you a new code.... There must be documentation on the purchase somewhere -- a PO or credit card info. However, if you're staring from scratch, I'd go with either MIF2Go from omsys.com or RoboHelp, as in the Technical Communication Suite. Both are strong and well-integrated. I prefer MIF2Go for most projects because it's simpler for me to use (I'm a config file kind of guy) and bulltproof once it's set up. And their customer support is exemplary. But RoboHelp comes with fancier, spiffier templates and it's designed to integrate well with Frame at the menu level. I know MIF2Ggo and Robohelp have free eval versions available. I think it's waning in popularity recently, but a number of people are big fans of Flare, so that's a possible third avenue to go down, although that's more of an authoring package rather than a conversion tool to pull content from Frame. Good luck! Cheers, Art Art Campbell ? ? ? ? ? ? ? art.campbell at gmail.com ? "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? No disclaimers apply. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? DoD 358 On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Pam Reichert <pam.reichert at vpisystems.com> wrote: > I have been using WebWorks epublisher Pro version 9.2 to convert our > FrameMaker documents into online help for our applications. ?Recently my > laptop started having problems and they are moving me to a new laptop. ?The > writer who installed epublisher on my laptop is no longer with the company > and we can?t find the CD with a serial number. ?I noticed a version of > WebWorks comes on the FrameMaker 7.2 CD but it is called WebWorks Standard. > I thought maybe this is where the WebWorks came from. ?Is WebWorks Standard > the same as ?ePublisher pro? ?Even if it is, no serial number I find on any > of our CDs seems to work with it and Adobe can?t seem to help me. ?When I go > to the WebWorks page I can?t get help there either because I don?t have a > maintenance contract. ?I don?t think WebWorks actually *wants* customers. > ?When I try to find out how much it costs to buy a new copy, no prices are > listed unless you have a sales person call you. ? We don?t have phones in > our office. > > > > I am pretty fed up with it all and am thinking of moving the help to a new > platform. ?Can you suggest another help platform that works well with > FrameMaker files and looks similar to ePublisher? ?I need to produce online > help in both .chm files and html files. > > > > Pam Reichert > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as art.campbell 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/art.campbell%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. >
