Remembering Gillian's original question: "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."
That's the path I am setting down today. I would very much appreciate experiences and warnings form anyone using TCS4 to publish DITA content to PDF and help. I have a bunch of DITA files, and TCS4 with DITA-FMx. It seems I have everything I need to be successful, except knowledge. I can't even find a good book on the subject! john On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:45 PM, Liz Fraley <liz at caltonia.com> wrote: > 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as john.sgammato at actifio.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/john.sgammato%40actifio.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/20121129/49b0f2e8/attachment.html>
