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Yes, you can use FrameMaker with RoboHelp. Indeed, many do. I used to.
However, it's not a seamless path. RoboHelp is a bunch of MS Word macros and
sits atop Word. Thus, you either need to get your Word/RoboHelp files into
FrameMaker or your FrameMaker files into Word/RobpHelp. I used RTF for this,
though FrameMaker has a Word97 filter and Blueberry's Filtrix might be the
long-term solution (http://www.filtrix.com).
I no longer use RoboHelp, I dumped it more than a year ago in favor of
Quadralay's WebWorks Publisher (soon to be WWP Professional version 6), see http://www.quadralay.com. After the initial configuration, creating online
help from FrameMaker is click-button easy (one or two clicks, anyway) in
WWP.
This is probably a stupid question, but as Linus said, even stupid
questions
have answers. My office is considering making the leap to
FrameMaker. The
question is, can you / do you use Frame with Robohelp?
