Frame versus XSL-FO

[Scott Prentice]

Good point. I always assume DITA when people talk about this stuff .. 
but if you're using a very basic XML model the stylesheet development is 
much easier (of course, so is the FM app development, so it might be a 
wash).

Cheers,

...scott

On 2/28/13 6:46 AM, Harro de Jong wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
> -- 
> 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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