FYI Both Scott Prentice and Maxwell Hoffman will be hosting a workshop at the upcoming TC Camp in January. Want to get a first hand look at these two conversation threads in a workshop setting? Come to TC Camp: http://www.tccamp.org
Liz On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Gillian Flato <Gillian.Flato at nexenta.com>wrote: > Thanks, Scott!**** > > ** ** > > -Gillian**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Scott Prentice [mailto:sp10 at leximation.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:27 AM > *To:* framers at lists.frameusers.com; Gillian Flato > *Subject:* Re: TCS 4 as DITA out-of-the-box solution**** > > ** ** > > Hi Gillian... > > As I'm sure you're aware, I'm a big proponent of using Frame for DITA > authoring, but I do try to remain reasonably objective when comparing it to > other DITA tools. > > The big thing that sets TCS apart from other DITA authoring tools is that > in addition to authoring, it provides a more complete publishing solution > for both PDF and various online formats. Other authoring tools will likely > bundle the DITA-OT as the publishing tool, which can work quite well, if > you've got XSLT developers at your disposal. The HTML-based formats aren't > too much work to customize, but if PDF is an important deliverable, you're > in for a lot of time and money to get XSL-FO styleheets built that would be > something you'd deliver to your customers. > > Because TCS includes RoboHelp, you'll find it much easier to get online > Help from DITA, and you'll be hard-pressed to get PDFs from the OT that > come close to what you can get from Frame. > > Personally, I use Frame for authoring DITA and Oxygen for coding XML/XSL. > Oxygen is a great tool, but I much prefer the authoring experience with > Frame over any other tool out there. I publish PDFs from Frame (via > DITA-FMx), and use the OT for my online outputs (HTML, CHM, and EPUB). > Samples here .. > > http://docs.leximation.com/dita-fmx/1.1/ > > If you do decide to use Frame/TCS for DITA, you should check out DITA-FMx, > which provides numerous additional authoring features, as well as makes > publishing complete and PDF-ready books much easier than the default > options .. > > http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/ > > Cheers, > > ...scott > > > **** > > Scott Prentice**** > > Leximation, Inc.**** > > www.leximation.com**** > > +1.415.485.1892**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > On 11/26/12 11:08 AM, Gillian Flato wrote:**** > > I went to a presentation last week given by Maxwell Hoffman from Adobe on > TCS v4.x. He stated that TCS v4.x is an out-of-the-box DITA solution that > contains DTDs, EDDs, etc, so you don?t have to go to third-party solutions > to obtain the necessary pieces.**** > > **** > > Has anyone used TCS v4.x as a complete DITA solution? Are you liking it? > Is it better or worse than using, for example, XMetal or Oxygen with 3rd-party > scripts, etc.**** > > **** > > *Thank You,***** > > * ***** > > *Gillian Flato***** > > *Senior Content Developer***** > > *Skype: Gillian.B.Flato***** > > *Gillian.Flato at nexenta.com***** > > **** > > **** > > **** > > > > **** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as caltonia at gmail.com. > > Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to > framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com > or visit > http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/caltonia%40gmail.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20121128/6b7e4597/attachment.html>