[framemaker-dita] ANN: Renaming DITA Map Topics

[Yves Barbion]

I'm not sure whether Fm+DITA users are a shrinking population, Jeremy. My
experience is that existing Frame users keep using Frame to author DITA
content, mainly for two reasons:

1. DITA-FMx, which really integrates DITA authoring in a Frame production
environment (and most of them are already familiar with the unstructured
Frame environment).

2. DITA2PDF output. An experienced Frame user can easily design FrameMaker
templates, and then generate FrameMaker books from his ditamaps. And these
books can handle complex things like autonumbering schemes, pagination,
widow/orphan control, tables... You can even include "unstructured" content
(cover pages, portrait/landscape pages, "chapter cover pages"...) in your
books.
Some people even buy Frame just for this reason, because it gives them an
affordable DITA2PDF solution:

1 Fm license: $999
1 DITA-FMx license: $185.00
1 template: $2000 (but usually a lot less) ;-)
_________________________
Total: $3184

If there are people who can design FO stylesheets for this price (or lower),
but which gives me a PDF of the same quality, feel free to contact me. I'd
be happy to do business with you.

And hey, some people would even buy Frame and MIF2Go to convert their Word
content to DITA:

1. Open Word file in Frame.
2. Set up MIF2Go.
3. Go!
4. Run the ManageTopicRefNames scripts.
5. Done!

Anyway, I agree that we could really use good toolmakers like Rick (and you
too Jeremy, and Scott) in other DITA authoring environments than Frame.


Cheers


-- 
Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu





On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Jeremy H. Griffith <jeremy at omsys.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:44:22 -0400, "Rick Quatro" <
> frameexpert at truevine.net <frameexpert%40truevine.net>>
> wrote:
>
> >Your warning of duplicates and the potential of overwriting files
> convinced
> >me to do more to ensure unique names. Now in semi-automatic mode, the
> script
> >will warn you if there are duplicates in the spreadsheet. You will be
> >required to have unique names before the script will update the DITA map
> and
> >rename any topic files. Thank you very much for all of the help.
>
> Thank *you* for handling that key issue so quickly
> and so well, Rick! We will start mentioning it in
> the User's Guide as *the* safe way to get such names.
>
> I note that this is FrameScript, and therefore works
> only for those using Frame as their DITA editor. That
> is a shrinking population. Have you considered doing
> something similar for DITA in a more general way, so
> that those using other editors (like oXygen) could
> also use it? The DITA user base is expanding fast,
> and it can really use good toolmakers like you! ;-)
>
>
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
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