DITA, and XMetaL working with FM
hedley.finger at myob.com
hedley.finger at myob.com
Thu Dec 1 15:12:43 PST 2005
I saw a few familar names at Blast Radius' webinar (just concluded) on
using XMetaL DITA Edition with FrameMaker. I'm pretty sure I heard Paul
Prescod say that a build path to go from DITA XML to FM to PDF is being
added to the DITA open toolkit. Can anyone confirm this? Or was it that
just XMetaL were going to add FM to their version of the toolkit?
The demo looked quite convincing. Presumably XML topic files are grouped
into chapters, a book file is built, and populated with those chapters,
then the TOC and Index is compiled. Sure like to know how they are doing
all this from an ANT build file as FM on Windows doesn't have anything
like the command-line capabilities of fmbatch on UNIX.
And has anybody purchased FrameMaker Server, whatever that is? The Adobe
site is rather coy but says that (somehow) you can process RTF, XML, and
Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all in some kind of batch process. So what
IS FM Server? Is it some kind of command-line version of FM, i.e. fmbatch
resurrected on Windows.
Anybody like to comment on what they saw? Did you think that this might
be a way to avoid XSL-FO and get some more mileage out of all your FM
licences?
Regards,
Hedley
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Hedley Finger
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