Vendor post: from Adobe Systems Incorporated Hi James
I am the Product Manager of FrameMaker. There is currently a easy way to generate EPUB from your FrameMaker source, if you have Technical Communication Suite (TCS) (version 3 & above) OR FrameMaker Server (version 10 & above). See my recent blog post on this topic (along with some EPUB samples that we generated with this route) http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/2011/12/publish-your-framemaker-content-to-mobile-devices.html You can download a trial of these products by visiting the homepage at TCS: http://www.adobe.com/products/technicalcommunicationsuite.html FrameMaker Server: http://www.adobe.com/products/framemakerserver.html It would be great if you can try it and let us know your feedback. Thanks, Kapil -----Original Message----- From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of James Monaco Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:24 AM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Frame to eBook All our books begin in Framemaker (7, Mac). After some trial and error, here is the workflow I found most effective for converting the books to ePub (and Mobi). Our books are heavily illustrated, so this is a large part of the work. 1. Produce the pdf in color. 2. Save pdf as Word. 3. Import to the Pages eBook template that Apple provides. Or better, cut and paste from Word. Import is flakey. Don't do anything in Word! 4. Clean up Front Matter. 5. Delete headers and footers, if any. (Most will be eliminated by the import.) Don't delete TOC. Pages will produce it, but you should include it at front with links. 6. In Pages, the top-level paragraph style selected in the Document inspector's TOC tab is used to create chapters in your publication. 7. Check for inline images. Move images out of the Word frames. Then move images so they don't break paragraphs. Move footnotes right after their paragraphs. 8. Insert cover at top. (Twice) 9. Format text: Search for assigned paragraph tags and change. You probably don't have to worry about page breaks before because the new P tags will fix those. 10. Adjust images. Note: you can get larger images by saving Word doc as html. Of course you can also just insert originals, or copy from the pdf. Yes, you have a lot of work to do in Pages before producing a decent ePub file, but the end result is good. Until FM outputs ePub this is the way to go. Hop this helps. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= James Monaco Harbor Electronic Publishing 84 Mt Misery Dr Sag Harbor NY 11963 631 725 9513 http://HEPDigital.com _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as kverma at adobe.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/kverma%40adobe.com Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.