PDF Content reuse with Frame + DITA?

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Gyanesh...

If your main goal is to publish two different sets of content from the 
same FM source files, I'd think that your best bet is to just use 
conditional text (show/hide) in unstructured FM files. There are 
probably benefits you could gain by moving to structure and/or DITA (and 
it can certainly be done with structure/DITA), but for what you're 
talking about, conditional text is really all you need. Just create two 
conditional tags and apply those tags to the content that is only for 
one product or the other (just don't overlap conditions) .. anything 
that is common to both would be left untagged. Use the conditional text 
show/hide settings to show one and hide the other, then generate your PDF.

Cheers!

...scott



Gyanesh Talwar wrote:
> Hello Framers,
>
> (Frame 7.2b144)
>
> For my product, I have 2 guides with similar content across different
> chapters. Can I publish two different PDFs from the same source (with
> selective content obviously).
>
> -> How will this be done? Using topic IDs?
> -> Is Show/hide a better option for this than Structured Frame?
> -> Is it viable to use DITA for this? Some other EDD ...or custome made?
>
> TIA,
> Gyanesh
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