Frame versus XSL-FO

[Harro de Jong]

You had to mention DITA, didn’t you? ;-)

We’ve made FO stylesheets for PDF output from Author-IT, those typically take a couple of days. The DITA Open Toolkit looks positively byzantine by comparison.


Harro de Jong
From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Yves Barbion
Sent: woensdag 27 februari 2013 15:58
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Frame versus XSL-FO

Hi Harro

If you can develop an FO stylesheet for DITA-sourced content in only 3 times the amount of time it takes me to develop the same DITA-FMx template, then we should talk. We may have a lot of work for you then. ;-)

Cheers


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Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu<http://www.scripto.nu>

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Harro de Jong <Harro.deJong at triviewgroup.com<mailto:Harro.deJong at triviewgroup.com>> wrote:
That's not been my experience with FO templating. I've seen FO templating take maybe 1.5-3x as long as in FrameMaker. $200k sounds more like they developed an entire formatting engine.

Harro de Jong
Triview

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