Well .. technically, it's both. Many features in FM are implemented as
plugins. The DITA support in FM since FM8 has been delivered as FDK
client plugins, but it is included pre-installed with the default
installation. You're thinking of the "DITA Application Pack for FM7.2"
.. that was delivered as a separate plugin that you'd download and
install after FM was installed.
Anyone who has FM8, 9, or 10 should have the default DITA support
pre-installed. If you're not seeing the DITA menu, you have either
uninstalled it (check the maker.ini file to see if the ditafm and
ditafm_app lines are commented out) .. or perhaps you don't have the
structured interface enabled.
If you install DITA-FMx, you must "uninstall" the default DITA support
by commenting those lines in the maker.ini. DITA-FMx completely replaces
the default DITA support, and the two plugins cannot co-exist. If you're
not seeing a DITA (or DITA-FMx) menu, you may have installed DITA-FMx,
then uninstalled it and neglected to uncomment the default DITA plugins.
Cheers,
...scott
On 5/18/12 9:05 AM, Writer wrote:
It's built into FM 10 as it was built in to FM 9. You have to switch to the
structured interface to see it (File> Preferences> General). I don't have
very much experience with FM 10, but if you want to use DITA 1.2, the underlying
templates and EDDs are different than FM 9. Someone more knowledgeable than I am
about FM 10 might have more to say about that.
Nadine
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Subject: RE: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10
Hi, Nadine, Scott, et. al.
A question for users of FrameMaker 10 ... is the DITA support built-in to this
version, or is there a separate plug-in for it (like was released by Adobe for
FrameMaker 9)?
If it is a plug-in still, does anyone have a link for it? I searched the Adobe
web site and did not find it ... may not have looked carefully enough.
Thanks!
Z
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Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:04 PM
To: Scott Prentice; framers@lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10
The problem is that "creating a DITA project" in FrameMaker is
really no different than doing that in any other XML authoring
tool. You do need to understand the structured FrameMaker UI, but
DITA is DITA regardless of the tool.
Agreed. What might be particular to FM is how to create output such as PDFs, the
topic templates, and the EDD (and perhaps some of its quirks with how it handles
attribute filtering).
I recommend this book for becoming familiar with DITA:
http://comtech-serv.com//index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28_3&products_id=10
Nadine
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