In case no one else has mentioned it, you can also use DITA2Go as an
alternative to the DITA-OT (or Flare or RoboHelp). It's free, and it's
highly configurable. The learning curve is not as steep as for the
DITA-OT, especially for those familiar with its sister product Mif2Go,
and the documentation, for those who want to learn, is much more extensive.
On 2012-05-18 13:01, Scott Prentice wrote:
To step back a bit .. the DITA-OT is a library of XSLT and Java code
that lets you create may types of output (HTML, CHM, Eclipse Help,
Java Help, PDF, etc.). Yes, it's free and can be used to create all
sorts of output from DITA, but it can be a fair amount of work to set
up and make things look the way you want. If you're using Frame for
authoring DITA, there's really no reason to use the OT for creating
PDFs (it's way more work and the results are far from stellar) ..
however, it can be a good option for online output *if* you're willing
to do the coding to make things work the way you want. It is likely to
be easier to use RoboHelp (or Flare) to create the online output, but
then you're paying for a proprietary tool. You decide where you want
to spend the money. :)
Cheers,
...scott
On 5/18/12 9:48 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net) wrote:
Hmmm ... I may have been quite unclear in my question, since I am a DITA novice!
The reason I asked is that the Adobe web site has a "FrameMaker 9 Plug-in for DITA
Open Toolkit" here:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/framemaker/fm9_opentoolkit.html
But I don't see an equivalent for FM 10 ... at least, not that I could find!
What does the FM 9 plug-in for DITA do ? I.e., what is different in FM 10 that it does
not need a similar "Plug-in"?
BTW, thanks for helping this complete DITA novice here! I learn so much from
this list all the time ... :)
Z
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To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (syed.hos...@aeris.net); Scott
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Subject: Re: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10
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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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&p
roducts_id=10
Nadine
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