<from earlier post> While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process to transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or dita?
Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini _______________________________________________ </from earlier post> Hi Joseph, I generally teach my students in a hands-on environment to convert legacy documents to XML in under 2 hours, so I do see the process as painless and quick. I'll be in Dallas at the Adobe booth next week for the STC Summit if you'd like a quick runthrough. Tom Aldous will also be there, and he's actually scheduled to a 15 minute runthrough of document conversion at the Adobe booth this coming Monday from 1:15-1:30 I have our complete booth schedule, including booth demos and Adobe presentations schedule available in PDF by request or at http://blogs.roundpeg.com/2010/04/adobe-stc-summit/ Of course the success of the conversion depends upon the extent to which the content adheres to a standard. For example, if your Word docs all use Normal+ for formatting, or if your FM docs are riddled with *Body, then no logic can be applied and thus, no easy conversion exists. So if your authors worked with style sheets, the supplied conversion tools (FM conversion tables) are well-worth the effort and can convert any number of documents to fairly valid XML with little relative effort. If they didn't, I know of no tool, for FM or any other editor, that will analyze and structure documents using ad hoc formatting. You are currently subscribed to framers as m...@grafixtraining.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/matt%40grafixtraining.co m Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. _______________________________________________ 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.
