Flare v11 and Frame 2015

[RamonS]

I need to convert a FrameMaker project to a Flare project. I installed Frame 2015 and started it, then I installed Flave V11. The problem right off the bat is that Flare claims that there is no FrameMaker installed. I made sure that Frame gets installed and started first before installing Flare.
Could it be that Flare V11 has no idea how to talk to FM 2015? I looked for an older Frame versions to download but came up empty.

[RamonS]

The answer is as expected, Flare 11 does not know that there is a Frame 2015.

[LTinker68]

According to Wikipedia, FrameMaker 2015 came out in June 2015, which was several months after Flare v11 came out, so not surprising v11 doesn't support it.

[RamonS]

I figured as much and MadCap support confirmed that. By now I managed to dig up a system with FrameMaker 10 on it. I installed Flare and ran the import. The result is a hot mess, but I assume that is because the sources were a hot mess to begin with. Will need some work to patch things up. First compile with Flare turns out very promising, eliminated at least a dozen issues that WebWorks stuffed in before. I will get the project maintainable, but the more I look at it the more I am convinced that throwing it away and starting from scratch is better.

[doc_guy]

If you want clean files in Flare, you need clean source in FM or Word.

[RamonS]

I clean it up in Flare. I used Frame briefly a long time ago and I figure the cleanup is much quicker done in an environment that I know. It is mainly splitting the gargantuan chapters into individual topics and rewiring the ToC.