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Tip: Interoperability

To be able to create a conversion setup usable with WebWorks^® Publisher Standard Edition, you have to use WebWorks^® Publisher Professional with the same major version number. I.e. using WebWorks^® Publisher Professional 2003 (8.0) you cannot prepare a conversion setup for WebWorks^® Publisher Standard Edition.

The WebWorks^® Publisher Standard Edition software which is included with Adobe FrameMaker 6 and Adobe FrameMaker 7 offers only a very limited set of customizable features, to create good-looking HTML pages. Before you go and buy WebWorks^® Publisher Professional, ask yourself the following questions:

• Are you prepared to invest several weeks of your time to learn a powerful and therefore complex new software?
• Are you going to treat this new know-how as a core competence through keeping it current in the future?
• Or do you just want a working conversion setup for a certain type of documents with a certain layout?
• And, is there a person you can ask all questions which may come up?

I strongly recommend this article written by Sarah O'Keefe from Scriptorium Publishing: Can WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition Save You Money?.

My offer

I create a conversion setup for your documents that is compatible with WebWorks^® Publisher Standard Edition, so all you have to do when you want to create your online media is:

• Start WebWorks^® Publisher Standard Edition
• Enter a project name
• Select the book file
• Click Next several times

The next steps

Please supply a test book* and a sample of how you want the conversion result to look like. In most cases I will ask a few questions and then send you a fixed price offer for a finalized conversion setup, which you can use

• without buying WebWorks^® Publisher Professional licenses
• without external training costs or internal learning times
• without having to learn the WebWorks Macro Language
• without a major time delay because of the costly know-how acquisition!

What is possible at all?

• HTML 4 with CSS formatting (so-called "Dynamic HTML")
• Microsoft HTML Help 1.x (including online help calls)
• Using Central-European, Cyrillic, Greek, Turkish, Baltic or Asian languages
• ... (with any of your demands: please ask!)

In this way it is possible to do efficient and complex projects. According to my experience the minimum effort for a solution like this is about EUR 1600.

Project examples

On my website cap-studio.de, I have illustrated two projects which were created using the method described here. In both cases the customer uses FrameMaker 6 and WebWorks^® Publisher Standard Edition version 6.

• An efficient project: MS HTML Help online help (there is a small animation which shows how little must be done to do the conversion)
• A very complex project: Dynamic HTML with framesets (this example shows you how far you can go using WebWorks^® Publisher Standard Edition – you can open the generated HTML pages)

*) The test book ideally meets the following requirements: It contains all chapter types, all paragraph and character styles in any of the valid combinations (which is especially important for stuff inside lists and tables), all table styles, all cross-reference styles, all types of graphics, and all valid text conditions. All in all the best test book could be a writing style guide, which has been create based on the template it describes.