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> Does anyone out there have experience creating online help documents
> with FrameMaker?
Yes. They're pretty easy to do. You can either integrate your help document
into FrameMaker's native help system (they're just read-only FrameMaker
files) or you can implement them as a stand-alone read-only FrameMaker
document.
If your users have FrameMaker, it's really simple. If they don't, you'll have
to license FrameReader from Frame Technology.
My book, Structured Publishing From the Desktop: Frame Technology's
FrameMaker (Business One Irwin, 1992) details how to integrate a help
document into FrameMaker's native help system.
If you're creating a system for multiple platforms, make sure you use graphic
images that are available on each platform.
My FrameMaker experience is mostly Mac-specific, but the product works
identically on every platform supported.
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