migrating from MadCap Flare to Oxygen XML
Posted: Fri Mar 19, 2021 10:04 pm
I've used Flare over the past several years and while it is a great HAT program, it falls short for me with pdf and ePub outputs.
I have several books that I would like to convert from XHTML in Flare to Docbook format. These books were originally created in InDesign or Framemaker, but I needed more complex formatting that was possible in either program. The books have a lot of figures, tables, mathematical formulas, cross references, and external references. I could never get the TOC in pdf outputs to format the way I wanted in Flare. I've also had a lot of cleanup and error fixing to do with ePubs generated from Flare. In the end, I've migrated some books to LaTeX - which solved most of my needs for pdf output. However, I still need a better solution for ePubs.
Have any of you migrated from MadCap Flare to Oxygen XML, specifically with converting documents to Docbook standard? What issues did you encounter? Did you use this for ePub outputs? I am specifically looking for both better structure and cleaner code with a different approach.
I have several books that I would like to convert from XHTML in Flare to Docbook format. These books were originally created in InDesign or Framemaker, but I needed more complex formatting that was possible in either program. The books have a lot of figures, tables, mathematical formulas, cross references, and external references. I could never get the TOC in pdf outputs to format the way I wanted in Flare. I've also had a lot of cleanup and error fixing to do with ePubs generated from Flare. In the end, I've migrated some books to LaTeX - which solved most of my needs for pdf output. However, I still need a better solution for ePubs.
Have any of you migrated from MadCap Flare to Oxygen XML, specifically with converting documents to Docbook standard? What issues did you encounter? Did you use this for ePub outputs? I am specifically looking for both better structure and cleaner code with a different approach.