Publishing an Adobe FrameMaker Book in Multiple HTML Formats

Adobe FrameMaker can really do an excellent job in publishing FM files straight to HTML, without going through another third-party application like RoboHLep, WebWorks, Flare, etc.

Here is a test I conducted to publish an FM book with 5 individual chapters to three different HTML formats. The attempt to BATCH publish to Kindle and ePub formats have failed unfortunately (POSTSCRIPT: Publishing to Kindle and ePub individually works, while stripping away the images).

BOTTOM LINE: As long as I can publish to HTML this smoothly directly from inside FM12 I won’t complain 🙂

Here is the book structure:

1) Select File > Publish to display the publishing options pod:

2) Click the Generate Multiple Outputs button (the one in the middle) and start generating your outputs.

3) When done, click the View button and here are the results…

Microsoft HTML help file

(Click to enlarge it)

Check out the TOC, Search functionality, and the Navigation stripe on top — all generated with a single click!
Search results:

Notice how the search results are highlighted (in blue)  in the target document, as expected.

Web Help

 Responsive HTML 5

Click the first button to see the TOC reproduced without an error:

Out-of-the-box HTML production won’t get any easier and better than this. Bravo Adobe!