Re: Frame to eBook

[Theresa de Valence]

Ack! Contact Frank at fr...@elmsoftonline.com

Frame to ePub.
Quite simple.

Theresa
--
===
Theresa de Valence
t...@bstw.com
===
___


You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

Send list messages to framers@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.

Frame to eBook

[Theresa de Valence]

Ack! Contact Frank at frank at ElmSoftOnline.com

Frame to ePub.
Quite simple.

Theresa
-- 
===
Theresa de Valence
TdeV at bstw.com
===

Re: Frame to eBook

[Theresa de Valence]

Hello Framers,

I've been using EPubFM by Elmsoft. I'm on Frame 8 but I think earlier 
versions are supported. Contact Frank at elms...@comcast.net


Cheers,
Theresa
___


You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

Send list messages to framers@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.

Frame to eBook

[Theresa de Valence]

Hello Framers,

I've been using EPubFM by Elmsoft. I'm on Frame 8 but I think earlier 
versions are supported. Contact Frank at elmsoft at comcast.net

Cheers,
Theresa

Re: Frame to eBook

[Ben Allums]

On 2/10/2012 12:17 PM, Karen Robbins wrote:

And if you use FrameMaker 9 (or even 10) for legacy Frame documents
under Parallels because you are a Mac shop? What better options might we
have?


NOTE: I work for WebWorks.

If you are running under Parallels, you should be able to make use of 
the Adobe TCS.  However, if you aren't looking to upgrade your 
FrameMaker environment just to publish ePUB output, check out WebWorks 
ePublisher.  It works with FrameMaker versions 7.2, 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0.


http://www.webworks.com/


Ben Allums
all...@webworks.com
512-381-8885

___


You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

Send list messages to framers@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.

Frame to eBook

[Alan Litchfield]

I ran my tests using VirtualBox running Win7 that is installed on a bootcamp 
partitiion, on a Macbook Pro on OS X 10.6.8. Worked fine.

As it stands, most of my files are 7 (Mac) to 7.2 with a large number from 5.5 
and 6.

Alan

On 11/02/2012, at 7:17 AM, Karen Robbins wrote:

> Hello Framers,
> 
> And if you use FrameMaker 9 (or even 10) for legacy Frame documents under 
> Parallels because you are a Mac shop? What better options might we have?
> 
> Thanks,
> Karen
> 
>> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:45 +1300 (NZDT)
>> From: "Alan Litchfield" 
>> To: "Kapil Verma" 
>> Cc: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" ,
>>  James Monaco 
>> Subject: RE: Frame to eBook
>> Message-ID:
>>  <45962.156.62.3.23.1328827545.squirrel at webmail.ak.planet.gen.nz>
>> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>> 
>> All,
>> 
>> I have recently done this investigation on behalf of a client. Of the methods
>> I explored (both published and home cooked), the approach described below is
>> by far the easiest I have found. It also provides for sufficient flexibility
>> and tweaking to provide for known device peculiarities, such as documents
>> intended for off-site technicians, etc.
>> 
>> I am one who does not like long and complex processes in which there are
>> potential fail points built in when a short and simple approach is available.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Alan Litchfield
>> 
>> Kapil Verma wrote:
>>> 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
>>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
>> AlphaByte
>> PO Box 1941, 1140, Auckland, New Zealand
>> http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
> http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice
> ___
> 
> 
> You are currently subscribed to framers as alan at alphabyte.co.nz.
> 
> 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/alan%40alphabyte.co.nz
> 
> Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit
> http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.

-- 
Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941, Auckland
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice

RE: Frame to eBook

[Karen Robbins]

Hello Framers,

And if you use FrameMaker 9 (or even 10) for legacy Frame documents 
under Parallels because you are a Mac shop? What better options might 
we have?


Thanks,
Karen


Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:45 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Alan Litchfield a...@alphabyte.co.nz
To: Kapil Verma kve...@adobe.com
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com,
James Monaco jmon...@unet2.net
Subject: RE: Frame to eBook
Message-ID:
45962.156.62.3.23.1328827545.squir...@webmail.ak.planet.gen.nz
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1

All,

I have recently done this investigation on behalf of a client. Of the methods
I explored (both published and home cooked), the approach described below is
by far the easiest I have found. It also provides for sufficient flexibility
and tweaking to provide for known device peculiarities, such as documents
intended for off-site technicians, etc.

I am one who does not like long and complex processes in which there are
potential fail points built in when a short and simple approach is available.

Regards
Alan Litchfield

Kapil Verma wrote:

 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



--
Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941, 1140, Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz

http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice
___


You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

Send list messages to framers@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.

Re: Frame to eBook

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Karen...

Not a direct solution, but I've got a very beta plugin called FM2Pages 
that generates an Apple Pages file from an FM file (for FM8 on up). At 
this point it's barely more than a proof of concept, and only exports 
the paragraph content and paragraph style names. But the intent is that 
you can use this to get from FM to Pages then import into iBooks Author 
or export from Pages to EPUB.


http://leximation.com/tools/info/fm2pages.php

If you're interested in playing with this, contact me off-list.

Cheers,

...scott

Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892



On 2/10/12 10:17 AM, Karen Robbins wrote:

Hello Framers,

And if you use FrameMaker 9 (or even 10) for legacy Frame documents 
under Parallels because you are a Mac shop? What better options might 
we have?


Thanks,
Karen


Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:45 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Alan Litchfield a...@alphabyte.co.nz
To: Kapil Verma kve...@adobe.com
Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com,
James Monaco jmon...@unet2.net
Subject: RE: Frame to eBook
Message-ID:
45962.156.62.3.23.1328827545.squir...@webmail.ak.planet.gen.nz
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1

All,

I have recently done this investigation on behalf of a client. Of the 
methods
I explored (both published and home cooked), the approach described 
below is
by far the easiest I have found. It also provides for sufficient 
flexibility
and tweaking to provide for known device peculiarities, such as 
documents

intended for off-site technicians, etc.

I am one who does not like long and complex processes in which there are
potential fail points built in when a short and simple approach is 
available.


Regards
Alan Litchfield

Kapil Verma wrote:

 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



--
Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941, 1140, Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz

http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice

___


You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

Send list messages to framers@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.

Re: Frame to eBook

[Alan Litchfield]

I ran my tests using VirtualBox running Win7 that is installed on a bootcamp 
partitiion, on a Macbook Pro on OS X 10.6.8. Worked fine.

As it stands, most of my files are 7 (Mac) to 7.2 with a large number from 5.5 
and 6.

Alan

On 11/02/2012, at 7:17 AM, Karen Robbins wrote:

 Hello Framers,
 
 And if you use FrameMaker 9 (or even 10) for legacy Frame documents under 
 Parallels because you are a Mac shop? What better options might we have?
 
 Thanks,
 Karen
 
 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:45 +1300 (NZDT)
 From: Alan Litchfield a...@alphabyte.co.nz
 To: Kapil Verma kve...@adobe.com
 Cc: framers@lists.frameusers.com framers@lists.frameusers.com,
  James Monaco jmon...@unet2.net
 Subject: RE: Frame to eBook
 Message-ID:
  45962.156.62.3.23.1328827545.squir...@webmail.ak.planet.gen.nz
 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
 
 All,
 
 I have recently done this investigation on behalf of a client. Of the methods
 I explored (both published and home cooked), the approach described below is
 by far the easiest I have found. It also provides for sufficient flexibility
 and tweaking to provide for known device peculiarities, such as documents
 intended for off-site technicians, etc.
 
 I am one who does not like long and complex processes in which there are
 potential fail points built in when a short and simple approach is available.
 
 Regards
 Alan Litchfield
 
 Kapil Verma wrote:
 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
 
 
 --
 Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
 AlphaByte
 PO Box 1941, 1140, Auckland, New Zealand
 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
 http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice
 ___
 
 
 You are currently subscribed to framers as a...@alphabyte.co.nz.
 
 Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com.
 
 To unsubscribe send a blank email to
 framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com
 or visit 
 http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/alan%40alphabyte.co.nz
 
 Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit
 http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.

-- 
Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941, Auckland
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice



___


You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

Send list messages to framers@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.

Frame to eBook

[Alan Litchfield]

All,

I have recently done this investigation on behalf of a client. Of the methods
I explored (both published and home cooked), the approach described below is
by far the easiest I have found. It also provides for sufficient flexibility
and tweaking to provide for known device peculiarities, such as documents
intended for off-site technicians, etc.

I am one who does not like long and complex processes in which there are
potential fail points built in when a short and simple approach is available.

Regards
Alan Litchfield

Kapil Verma wrote:
> 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
>

-- 
Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941, 1140, Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice

Frame to eBook

[Karen Robbins]

Hello Framers,

And if you use FrameMaker 9 (or even 10) for legacy Frame documents 
under Parallels because you are a Mac shop? What better options might 
we have?

Thanks,
Karen

>Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:45 +1300 (NZDT)
>From: "Alan Litchfield" 
>To: "Kapil Verma" 
>Cc: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" ,
>   James Monaco 
>Subject: RE: Frame to eBook
>Message-ID:
>   <45962.156.62.3.23.1328827545.squirrel at webmail.ak.planet.gen.nz>
>Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>
>All,
>
>I have recently done this investigation on behalf of a client. Of the methods
>I explored (both published and home cooked), the approach described below is
>by far the easiest I have found. It also provides for sufficient flexibility
>and tweaking to provide for known device peculiarities, such as documents
>intended for off-site technicians, etc.
>
>I am one who does not like long and complex processes in which there are
>potential fail points built in when a short and simple approach is available.
>
>Regards
>Alan Litchfield
>
>Kapil Verma wrote:
>>  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
>>
>
>--
>Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
>AlphaByte
>PO Box 1941, 1140, Auckland, New Zealand
>http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice

Frame to eBook

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Karen...

Not a direct solution, but I've got a very beta plugin called FM2Pages 
that generates an Apple Pages file from an FM file (for FM8 on up). At 
this point it's barely more than a proof of concept, and only exports 
the paragraph content and paragraph style names. But the intent is that 
you can use this to get from FM to Pages then import into iBooks Author 
or export from Pages to EPUB.

 http://leximation.com/tools/info/fm2pages.php

If you're interested in playing with this, contact me off-list.

Cheers,

...scott

Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892



On 2/10/12 10:17 AM, Karen Robbins wrote:
> Hello Framers,
>
> And if you use FrameMaker 9 (or even 10) for legacy Frame documents 
> under Parallels because you are a Mac shop? What better options might 
> we have?
>
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
>> Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:45 +1300 (NZDT)
>> From: "Alan Litchfield" 
>> To: "Kapil Verma" 
>> Cc: "framers at lists.frameusers.com" ,
>> James Monaco 
>> Subject: RE: Frame to eBook
>> Message-ID:
>> <45962.156.62.3.23.1328827545.squirrel at webmail.ak.planet.gen.nz>
>> Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I have recently done this investigation on behalf of a client. Of the 
>> methods
>> I explored (both published and home cooked), the approach described 
>> below is
>> by far the easiest I have found. It also provides for sufficient 
>> flexibility
>> and tweaking to provide for known device peculiarities, such as 
>> documents
>> intended for off-site technicians, etc.
>>
>> I am one who does not like long and complex processes in which there are
>> potential fail points built in when a short and simple approach is 
>> available.
>>
>> Regards
>> Alan Litchfield
>>
>> Kapil Verma wrote:
>>>  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
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
>> AlphaByte
>> PO Box 1941, 1140, Auckland, New Zealand
>> http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
> http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice
>
-- next part --
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: 
<http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120210/bc2ca5cf/attachment.html>

Frame to eBook

[Ben Allums]

On 2/10/2012 12:17 PM, Karen Robbins wrote:
> And if you use FrameMaker 9 (or even 10) for legacy Frame documents
> under Parallels because you are a Mac shop? What better options might we
> have?

NOTE: I work for WebWorks.

If you are running under Parallels, you should be able to make use of 
the Adobe TCS.  However, if you aren't looking to upgrade your 
FrameMaker environment just to publish ePUB output, check out WebWorks 
ePublisher.  It works with FrameMaker versions 7.2, 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0.




Ben Allums
allums at webworks.com
512-381-8885

RE: Frame to eBook

[Kapil Verma]

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-boun...@lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of James Monaco
Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:24 AM
To: framers@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 kve...@adobe.com.

Send list messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com.

To unsubscribe send a blank email to
framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com
or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/kverma%40adobe.com

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 framers@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.

RE: Frame to eBook

[Alan Litchfield]

All,

I have recently done this investigation on behalf of a client. Of the methods
I explored (both published and home cooked), the approach described below is
by far the easiest I have found. It also provides for sufficient flexibility
and tweaking to provide for known device peculiarities, such as documents
intended for off-site technicians, etc.

I am one who does not like long and complex processes in which there are
potential fail points built in when a short and simple approach is available.

Regards
Alan Litchfield

Kapil Verma wrote:
 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


-- 
Alan Litchfield MBus (Hons), MNZCS
AlphaByte
PO Box 1941, 1140, Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz
http://www.alphabyte.co.nz/beatrice

___


You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

Send list messages to framers@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.

Frame to eBook

[Kapil Verma]

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.

Frame to eBook

[James Monaco]

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 arch...@mail-archive.com.

Send list messages to framers@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.

RE: Frame to eBook

[David Shaked]

Vendor post: I am a WebWorks reseller.

 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.

I didn't see the earlier posts in this thread, but have you considered using
WebWorks ePublisher to convert FM to EPUB? Very likely, you can configure
WebWorks to perform the formatting steps automatically.

David Shaked (Wernick)

AlmondWeb Ltd.
http://www.almondweb.com
Technical Documentation * Web Development * Word and WebWorks Consultants
 

___


You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com.

Send list messages to framers@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.

Frame to eBook

[James Monaco]

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

Frame to eBook

[David Shaked]

Vendor post: I am a WebWorks reseller.

> 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.

I didn't see the earlier posts in this thread, but have you considered using
WebWorks ePublisher to convert FM to EPUB? Very likely, you can configure
WebWorks to perform the formatting steps automatically.

David Shaked (Wernick)

AlmondWeb Ltd.
http://www.almondweb.com
Technical Documentation * Web Development * Word and WebWorks Consultants
?