Re: FM to WinHelp

[Rhea Tolman <rtolman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Grant wrote that if you use MIF2RTF from Omsys to create
RTF, you then need to open the RTF in a Help Authoring Tool
to tweak it. Not so. The "winhelp" flavor of MIF2RTF takes
advantage of many mechanisms in FrameMaker to produce
output. You tweak things in Frame and feed the RTF output
directly to MS Help Compiler (which is free). By me, this is
the optimal route from FrameMaker to Help. 

-Rhea Tolman
Manager, InterBase Tech Pubs Group, Inprise Corp.

Grant wrote:
> 
> At 09:30 AM 4/28/99 -0400, Hutchings, Christa
> <cwhutchings@homewireless.com> wrote:
> >I have been asked to take some info from a FM file and convert it > >to  WinHelp
> >for inclusion with an installation wizard. Does anyone know if > > >this is possible and what is the most efficient route to do this?
> >
> >Chris
> >
> >**********************************
> >Chris Welch-Hutchings
> >Senior Technical Writer
> >Home Wireless Networks, Inc.
> >http://homewireless.com
> 
> Christa, it can be done, but not automagically.
> The closest to automagic I know of is to save the file as MIF, and
> then use MIF2RTF ( a third-party tool from Omsys) to convert to RTF,
> and then open the RTF in your HAT.  You will still need to tweak the
> file to get your formats right.
> 
> Grant
> Grant Hogarth
> Technical Publications Manager
> Onyx Graphics Corp., Midvale, UT
> mailto: grant@onyxgfx.com
> Web: http:\\www.onyxgfx.com
> 
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