Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

[Writer]

It's built into FM 10 as it was built in to FM 9. You have to switch to the structured interface to see it (File > Preferences > General). I don't have very much experience with FM 10, but if you want to use DITA 1.2, the underlying templates and EDDs are different than FM 9. Someone more knowledgeable than I am about FM 10 might have more to say about that.

Nadine



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> From: "Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net)" <Syed.Hosain at aeris.net>
> To: Writer <generic668 at yahoo.ca>; Scott Prentice <sp10 at leximation.com>; "framers at lists.frameusers.com" <framers at lists.frameusers.com>
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> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 11:45:29 AM
> Subject: RE: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10
> 
> Hi, Nadine, Scott, et. al.
> 
> A question for users of FrameMaker 10 ... is the DITA support built-in to this 
> version, or is there a separate plug-in for it (like was released by Adobe for 
> FrameMaker 9)?
> 
> If it is a plug-in still, does anyone have a link for it? I searched the Adobe 
> web site and did not find it ... may not have looked carefully enough.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Z
> 
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> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:04 PM
> To: Scott Prentice; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10
> 
> 
> 
>> The problem is that "creating a DITA project" in FrameMaker is
>       really no different than doing that in any other XML authoring
>       tool. You do need to understand the structured FrameMaker UI, but
>       DITA is DITA regardless of the tool.
> 
> 
> Agreed. What might be particular to FM is how to create output such as PDFs, the 
> topic templates, and the EDD (and perhaps some of its quirks with how it handles 
> attribute filtering).
> 
> 
> I recommend this book for becoming familiar with DITA: 
> http://comtech-serv.com//index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28_3&products_id=10
> 
> Nadine
>