TCS 4 as DITA out-of-the-box solution

[Liz Fraley]

FYI Both Scott Prentice and Maxwell Hoffman will be hosting a workshop at
the upcoming TC Camp in January. Want to get a first hand look at these two
conversation threads in a workshop setting? Come to TC Camp:
http://www.tccamp.org

Liz

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Gillian Flato <Gillian.Flato at nexenta.com>wrote:

>  Thanks, Scott!****
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> -Gillian****
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> *From:* Scott Prentice [mailto:sp10 at leximation.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:27 AM
> *To:* framers at lists.frameusers.com; Gillian Flato
> *Subject:* Re: TCS 4 as DITA out-of-the-box solution****
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> Hi Gillian...
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> As I'm sure you're aware, I'm a big proponent of using Frame for DITA
> authoring, but I do try to remain reasonably objective when comparing it to
> other DITA tools.
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> The big thing that sets TCS apart from other DITA authoring tools is that
> in addition to authoring, it provides a more complete publishing solution
> for both PDF and various online formats. Other authoring tools will likely
> bundle the DITA-OT as the publishing tool, which can work quite well, if
> you've got XSLT developers at your disposal. The HTML-based formats aren't
> too much work to customize, but if PDF is an important deliverable, you're
> in for a lot of time and money to get XSL-FO styleheets built that would be
> something you'd deliver to your customers.
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> Because TCS includes RoboHelp, you'll find it much easier to get online
> Help from DITA, and you'll be hard-pressed to get PDFs from the OT that
> come close to what you can get from Frame.
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> Personally, I use Frame for authoring DITA and Oxygen for coding XML/XSL.
> Oxygen is a great tool, but I much prefer the authoring experience with
> Frame over any other tool out there. I publish PDFs from Frame (via
> DITA-FMx), and use the OT for my online outputs (HTML, CHM, and EPUB).
> Samples here ..
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>     http://docs.leximation.com/dita-fmx/1.1/
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> If you do decide to use Frame/TCS for DITA, you should check out DITA-FMx,
> which provides numerous additional authoring features, as well as makes
> publishing complete and PDF-ready books much easier than the default
> options ..
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>     http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/
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> Cheers,
>
> ...scott
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> On 11/26/12 11:08 AM, Gillian Flato wrote:****
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> I went to a presentation last week given by Maxwell Hoffman from Adobe on
> TCS v4.x. He stated that TCS v4.x is an out-of-the-box DITA solution that
> contains DTDs, EDDs, etc, so you don’t have to go to third-party solutions
> to obtain the necessary pieces.****
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> Has anyone used TCS v4.x as a complete DITA solution? Are you liking it?
> Is it better or worse than using, for example, XMetal or Oxygen with 3rd-party
> scripts, etc.****
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> *Thank You,*****
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> *Gillian Flato*****
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> *Skype: Gillian.B.Flato*****
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> *Gillian.Flato at nexenta.com*****
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