do I have to have FrameMaker installed to convert to Flare?

[dmaryon]

I just volunteered to help a doc team in another division of my company convert about 30 FrameMaker projects to Flare. They are brand new to Flare, I haven't used Frame for several years and don't have it on my computer. It appears that Flare won't even begin the conversion process unless I have FrameMaker installed. This is a basic question, but I can't find an answer in the Flare docs. Do I need to have FrameMaker installed on the same computer as Flare to convert these projects? or is there some way around this?

[LTinker68]

I'm pretty sure you do -- I know you have to have Word installed to be able to import a Word doc. I think it runs Frame in the background as it does the import so that it can query it for certain information.

[swills22]

My experience is that you do have to have FrameMaker installed on the same system that's running Flare in order to do an import. And I believe it needs to be FrameMaker 8 or newer. (For sure it doesn't work with FrameMaker 6!)

[RamonS]

I was faced with this before and what I did is install the demo version of Frame and my install of Flare into a VM. That did the trick for the import, which I had to do only once.