Flare vs DITA

Tue Apr 14 12:03:44 PDT 2015

Art, Gillian is probably referring to XSL-FO scripts which need to be customized to get the PDF output you want. 

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From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Art Campbell
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 2:39 PM
To: Gillian Flato
Cc: Framers
Subject: Re: Flare vs DITA

Gillian, when you were talking about scripts... Could you fill us in on what they do and why they're required?

I've never seen a DITA project (other than legacy ports) that required scripting, and am just curious about how they're used.

Art

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On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Gillian Flato <gill6034 at comcast.net> wrote:

I have used unstructured Frame for 15 years. I am an advanced user.

I have used DITA for 3 with Oxygen. We outsourced writing our scripts.

Now I have to decide if I want to use Frame unstructured or structured for a new project. There are no legacy docs.

-Gillian

> On Apr 14, 2015, at 10:44 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> wrote:
>
> If you DON'T have FrameMaker or aren't familiar with using it to
> author DITA, and aren't chained to DITA, Flare would probably be way,
> way easier.
>
> There's probably some set of requirements where structured FrameMaker
> would be the best and/or most cost-effective tool for the job these
> days, but it's hard for me to imagine what that would be.
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Shmuel <shmuelw1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Flare vs. Frame with DITA-FMx sounds like a toss-up. I assume you are
>> familiar with Frame, since you are asking on this list, so why start with
>> something new?

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