Well, as the final nail on the coffin on this matter (my FrameMaker-challenged
coworker hacking his way through to produce down-and-ridiculously-dirty files),
I've given up because following a conversation that got VERY heated and loud in
the office, it is now apparent that he thrives far more t
One other thought is to convert FrameMaker books into a web help system and
deploy that to a web server that anyone in your company could access.
That's a fairly simple exercise to do if you have the technical
communication suite and I can provide a detailed explanation on how to do
that if you are
Hi Laura,
I'd recommend talking to Sarah O'Keefe at Scriptorium Publishing. I'd also
take a look at these:
http://www.scriptorium.com/structure.pdf
http://www.scriptorium.com/category/resources/xmldita/xml-xmldita/
The key question I'd have is ROI on doing this, since these types of
conversions
On 24/03/2012 12:03 AM, Fred Ridder wrote:
> 2. Is version 8 compatible with Windows XP?
Since you say that you are currently using FrameMaker 8 with Windows XP,
I assume that you meant to ask whether FrameMaker *10* is compatible
with Windows XP.
Correct. I mistyped.
The answer to *that8
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On top of Art's comments, make sure that you understand what outputs you
need to create and how to create them from structured sources. In terms
of DITA, authoring is easy once you get the hang of it; however, you
need to figure out which tools allow you to create PDFs, online help,
mobile help
Bottom line is that he's correct, but the implementation is pretty labor
intensive especially if you're a small shop, and the payback he's thinking
about may not materialize. Basically, you're adding a set of rules to your
documents that control the formatting and possible uses of different chunks
