I am about to author a small report on setting up a technical documentation workflow from scratch. I need to devise a setup where a group of author can write tech docs, another group maintain and translate the docs and publish them as pdf. It is vital that the process can be thought within a technogy which allows for later integration with publishing to web as well.
I have taken a look at Woodwings serverbased solution which uses InDesign as publishing frontend, but I would like to see whether I can accomplish the same using FrameMaker. I suppose I must look for a kind of database drive solution where the authors write into a database. I have taken a look on a couple of database publishing solutions: Patternstream, Sabern, FrameMaker Server but some of these solutions looks strangely dated when one merely looks at their websites. Sabern uses product images from FrameMaker 5.5. Patternstream recommends in FrameMaker 8 in a news release dated 2007. Adobes documentation for FrameMaker Server seems to be non existent - even a tutorial links to some very quaint and useless course on a server not even belonging to Adobe. My question is: Am I looking in the wrong places? Can somebody reccommend products which will help me streamline the process? regards Jakobsen
