Benefits/disadvantages of publishing a PDF from FM over RH?

Hi everyone...
Quick question. Is anyone aware of any benefits and/or disadvantages to publishing a PDF file out of FM over RH? We are creating both PDF and online help, and screen shots in PNG format (not resized) in FM published to PDF don't look nice... PNG screen shots (not resized) in FM, imported into RH and then generated as both PDF and/or webhelp look great in both formats.
I'm wondering what I am missing if I generate my PDF from RH as opposed to FM...
TIA,
Adriana

Hi there
As I understand it, the primary intent of Frame is to produce printed output. RoboHelp's primary intent is to produce on-line content. So if you have stuff in Frame, it makes sense to import to RoboHelp to then produce on-line. I mean CHM, WebHelp or FlashHelp here.
As Frame is capable (I think) of going directly to PDF, I'd say to use it to directly produce the PDF. If you ship to RoboHelp, you are converting three times. Once to create HTML topics, once to create the Word document and a third time to create the PDF from the Word document. Consider each conversion a potential issue point.
Cheers... Rick
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