Migrating to Technical Comm. Suite

Question

I viewed a webinar on "Content Reuse: Technical Communication
Suite" that showed the integration between FM 8 and RH 7 .
In the demos, the source content was all in FM (this seemed
to be the point). All of my content is in HTML, so I assume I will
need to convert my content to a format supported by Frame. Is this
a relatively easy process?

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply. I agree that the pricing and extra apps
are very attractive in their own right.
So then as an RH user, I wouldn't need to use Frame as the
backend at all. In the demo, it seemed like you would use Frame to
store the "Source" and then would use Robo for generating HTML
output. They made a point of saying: "while you can edit the
content in RoboHelp, you might not want to do that as it wouldn't
be replicated back to the source" (paraphrasing here) and that it
would be better to make the change to the Frame source and then
force the update to flow through to Robo. But since I wouldn't be
using Frame, I'd just skip that part.
I feel better now, because I migrated from FrameMaker to
WinHelp about 9 years ago, then from WinHelp to HTML about 4 years
ago. Not sure I'm ready to complete the circle.
I think part of my misunderstanding was that the webinar was
called "Content Reuse". I thought I was going to see chunks of
content being reused in multiple documents (like DITA conrefs)
instead of repurposing Frame into a different output format.