Hi Roger As Scott Prentice said, the DITA Open Toolkit and FrameMaker are not mutually exclusive. If you want to author DITA-structured content in FrameMaker, try Leximation's DITA-FMx plug-in, you'll love it:
http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/ If you want to see an example of various deliverables which were generated from the same source (ditamap): - XHTML, generated with the DITA Open Toolkit: http://www.nomadesk.com/webhelp/welcome.php - PDF, generated with FrameMaker and DITA-FMx: http://www.nomadesk.com/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/Nomadesk_getting_started_guide_final.pdf - CHM, generated with the DITA Open Toolkit: Included in the Help menu of Nomadesk (feel free to download and install a free trial to see it). To include/exclude content and to create variants of your documentation, you can use the DITA's conref and ditaval (conditional processing) mechanisms. To generate output from your DITA content, you could use TCS2, but you can also consider and test other tools like DITA2Go, MadCap Flare, WebWorks ePublisher... And if file management becomes too complicated, you have a wide choice of DITA-aware content management systems. Bluestream XDocs, for example, is one that plays nicely with FrameMaker and DITA-FMx. There is an XDocs webinar recording on Youtube: http://bit.ly/57EYwZ Cheers -- Yves Barbion • Managing Director • Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor www.scripto.nu • skype: yves.barbion • T: +32 494 12 01 89 • F: +32 9 366 50 23 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
