Merging books: Need FM mechanisms and methodologies for merging books with large fraction of identical material

[Art Campbell]

Avraham,

In addition to Scott's good advice....

You need to factor in some of your own learning curve time. I seem to
remember from earlier posts that you're a relative novice with Frame
(forgive me if I'm mis-remembering), but the first time you do any of
this stuff, you're likely to take twice as long as the twentieth time
you do it.

Art Campbell
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 5:03 PM,  <quills at airmail.net> wrote:
> It better to estimate the worst case, rather than best case scenario.
> You could find that your conversion/merge goes much faster, in which
> case you are a hero. If you estimate too little and miss your delivery
> date, you are a villain.
>
> If they go to Word, then there won't be any sharing of content. You will
> need to have two separate documents. Word doesn't play nicely with a
> complex or complicated format structure. And it isn't suited to
> conditional text, or referenced text.
>
> Scott
>
> Avraham Makeler wrote:
>>> > I will jump in and mention that to avoid a deadline being missed,
>>
>> Good point of course. I already insisted that this is something that
>> they must postpone until */after*/ the delivery deadline.
>>
>>> > I would estimate the time for completion at 5 pages an hour.
>>
>> Hmmm .. so that's 20 hours per 100 pages. So for the six books I list,
>> that's ~100 hrs = two weeks work. I hope it can be done a bit faster.
>> They are not going to like to hear 100 hours. In addition, there is also
>> the "possibility of migrating everything from FM to Word" floating
>> around at this particular client. So there is never much point in making
>> a big investment in FM book restructuring.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Avraham Makeler <amakeler at gmail.com
>> <mailto:amakeler at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     > > For a two books to be combined, both approximately 100 pages, and
>>     if I had no familiarity with them, I would estimate the time for
>>     completion at 5 pages an hour.
>>
>>     > > and if I had no familiarity with them
>>
>>     The SME said he will be doing the job of marking (in a PDF or in a
>>     Word export) which blocks are shared. So then I "just" have to put
>>     those marked blocks in a shared area or add conditional text constructs.
>>
>>     avi
>>
>>
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