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Subject:CD-ROM and Online Doc Tools From:Frank Stearns <franks -at- PACIFIER -dot- RAIN -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 3 Dec 1993 10:50:22 -0800
RE - CD ROMs and online doc thread:
FrameMaker offers a good route for developing online documentation.
Navigation tools are easy to create within the document files. Files are
multi-platform with no special conversions needed when crossing platforms
(an important consideration when building a distribution for CD-ROM).
We offer two tools to help FrameMaker users produce online documents:
FM2A - converts FrameMaker docs to fully-formatted ascii text streams.
(Tables are rendered as tables.) This is excellent for non-graphic
displays, emailing, posting the contents of a FrameMaker document, and
so.
HyperGen - augments the toc/index/cross-reference linking built-in to
FrameMaker 4.0 by linking user-defined targets. HyperGen also has a
number of other unique features.
For more information contact:
Frank Stearns
Frank Stearns Associates
franks -at- pacifier -dot- rain -dot- com
206/892-3970
