Resources to help a newbie create DITA documents in FrameMaker 10

[Yves Barbion]

Hi Robert

You are correct in saying that it takes more time to be productive with
FrameMaker and DITA, but I think "two weeks or more of downtime" is a bit
exaggerated. With DITA-FMx, you can be up and running within an hour (or
two). Moreover, DITA-FMx has good documentation and an excellent sample
(i.e. the documentation itself). And if you know how to design FrameMaker
templates, you can have your customized PDFs in a day (or two), which can
easily take two weeks or more with XSL-FO.

Cheers

Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu



On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>wrote:

> That sounds like manual coding with a text editor. I expect more from
> an authoring tool.
>
> I know enough about DocBook and DITA that I could be immediately
> productive with Oxygen XML or XMetal. In contrast, FrameMaker looks
> like two weeks or more of downtime while dealing with the lack of
> documentation and samples and the relatively crude UI.
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