ANN: Thinking about migrating to DITA? FM2DITA can help.

[Scott Prentice]

Hi Jeremy!

The price will be available when it's actually available .. hopefully soon.

MIF2Go is definitely a good option, and is cheaper than this plugin will 
be. These tools are a collection of utilities that I've developed over 
the years to handle various situations, for preconversion cleanup, 
post-conversion-table cleanup, and then the actual topic/map shredding 
process. The main reason I'm making this available is that I've recently 
had a number of clients who wanted me to set up a conversion table based 
conversion process for them to use to convert their own content. I've 
needed to take these tools and wrap them up into something that could be 
used by someone other than myself, so I figured that I'd make it 
available as a retail product.

If you're comfortable with using MIF2Go, then this plugin isn't likely 
to be of much use (although the preconversion tools may be useful for 
that as well), but if you want to go the conversion table route .. the 
tools in this plugin will probably save you lots of time.

As Jeremy says .. check out both options (and others), before heading 
down one path.

Cheers,

...scott

On 7/22/13 11:06 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2013 10:07:47 -0700, Scott Prentice <sp10 at leximation.com> wrote:
>
>> Leximation will soon be releasing a plugin called FM2DITA. This is
>> basically a collection of tools that make it much easier to convert from
>> unstructured FM to DITA. If you're using the FrameMaker conversion table
>> method for converting, this will save you lots of time. Here's the
>> current docs ..
>>
>>      http://docs.leximation.com/fm2dita/0.11/
> You might want to mention the price you have in
> mind.  We don't even look at tools that don't
> have prices on their Web site.  Red flag. <g>
>
>> If you're interested in giving this a test drive, contact me off-list.
>>
>> This is not yet available for purchase, but I hope to have it ready in
>> the coming weeks.
> Or, if you want to use the tool chosen by 26% of
> FrameMaker users for this (per a recent impartial
> poll), check out Mif2Go:
>    http://mif2go.com
>
> We've always recommended Scott's DITA-FMx for those
> who plan to continue editing in Frame.  However,
> for the conversion itself, we've been fine-tuning
> for several years, with the help of DITA-TC members
> who are using it for major conversion projects at
> their Fortune 50 companies...  ;-)  So we're a tad
> ahead in this area.  Check out both, and decide
> for yourself.
>
> -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc.
>    <jeremy at omsys.com>    http://mif2go.com/
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