Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

[Scott Prentice]

Well .. technically, it's both. Many features in FM are implemented as 
plugins. The DITA support in FM since FM8 has been delivered as FDK 
client plugins, but it is included pre-installed with the default 
installation. You're thinking of the "DITA Application Pack for FM7.2" 
.. that was delivered as a separate plugin that you'd download and 
install after FM was installed.

Anyone who has FM8, 9, or 10 should have the default DITA support 
pre-installed. If you're not seeing the DITA menu, you have either 
uninstalled it (check the maker.ini file to see if the ditafm and 
ditafm_app lines are commented out) .. or perhaps you don't have the 
structured interface enabled.

If you install DITA-FMx, you must "uninstall" the default DITA support 
by commenting those lines in the maker.ini. DITA-FMx completely replaces 
the default DITA support, and the two plugins cannot co-exist. If you're 
not seeing a DITA (or DITA-FMx) menu, you may have installed DITA-FMx, 
then uninstalled it and neglected to uncomment the default DITA plugins.

Cheers,

...scott



On 5/18/12 9:05 AM, Writer wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> 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>
>> Cc:
>> 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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
>> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Writer
>> 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
>>
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