Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

[Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain@aeris.net)]

Hmmm ... I may have been quite unclear in my question, since I am a DITA novice!

The reason I asked is that the Adobe web site has a "FrameMaker 9 Plug-in for DITA Open Toolkit" here:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/framemaker/fm9_opentoolkit.html

But I don't see an equivalent for FM 10 ... at least, not that I could find!

What does the FM 9 plug-in for DITA do ? I.e., what is different in FM 10 that it does not need a similar "Plug-in"?

BTW, thanks for helping this complete DITA novice here! I learn so much from this list all the time ... :)

Z

-----Original Message-----
From: Writer [mailto:generic668 at yahoo.ca] 
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 9:05 AM
To: Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net); Scott Prentice; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

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 
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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&p
> roducts_id=10
> 
> Nadine
>