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Uh, this sounds like happy news, but here's my question for MadCap: Did you break the TOC support for FrameMaker files in Flare 4.0?

Used to be, you could do an import of the FrameMaker book file, TOC and all, and you'd end up with a decent TOC in Flare. Then you could make customizations to the ...

I've never seen any evidence that Flare supports TopicID markers from FrameMaker. It certainly didn't seem to import them from my Frame files. By contrast, my TopicAlias and Filename markers seem to work fine. Flare creates an alias file based on my TopicAlias markers, but it just seems to ignore my ...

Once you are used to using FrameMaker, you don't really feel a compelling need to switch to a new authoring tool. You DO need a conversion tool that does a better job of creating online Help from FrameMaker files than RoboHelp does.
Familiarity with the tool is a good reason to keep using FM, which ...

Thanks for the information and links. I'm glad you are having success. Yes, a learning curve always applies to any HAT. I spent a lot of time learning HTML Transit, HTML Help Workshop, RoboHelp, and WebWorks Publisher, too. They all have quirks.

As far as I can tell, though, the FM reimport feature ...

This is exactly what I am looking for in this forum, and I am terribly disappointed that no one responded to you. I am struggling with the same stylesheet issue. It's extremely annoying.
Other posts to this forum that dared to broach the subject of authoring in FrameMaker and periodically ...