Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

[Jim Owens]

In case no one else has mentioned it, you can also use DITA2Go as an 
alternative to the DITA-OT (or Flare or RoboHelp).  It's free, and it's 
highly configurable. The learning curve is not as steep as for the 
DITA-OT, especially for those familiar with its sister product Mif2Go, 
and the documentation, for those who want to learn, is much more extensive.

On 2012-05-18 13:01, Scott Prentice wrote:
> To step back a bit .. the DITA-OT is a library of XSLT and Java code 
> that lets you create may types of output (HTML, CHM, Eclipse Help, 
> Java Help, PDF, etc.). Yes, it's free and can be used to create all 
> sorts of output from DITA, but it can be a fair amount of work to set 
> up and make things look the way you want. If you're using Frame for 
> authoring DITA, there's really no reason to use the OT for creating 
> PDFs (it's way more work and the results are far from stellar) .. 
> however, it can be a good option for online output *if* you're willing 
> to do the coding to make things work the way you want. It is likely to 
> be easier to use RoboHelp (or Flare) to create the online output, but 
> then you're paying for a proprietary tool. You decide where you want 
> to spend the money.  :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> ...scott
>
>
> On 5/18/12 9:48 AM, Syed Zaeem Hosain (Syed.Hosain at aeris.net) wrote:
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- 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&p
>>> roducts_id=10
>>>
>>> Nadine
>>>
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