[Framers] PDFs in a FM book file

[David Artman]

   Perhaps I will, if I'm ever working in FrameMaker again. I've become a
   bit of a DITA specialist lately, and at a past job we even made
   specializations to create form elements in the XML and render them with
   an ANT argument (or not). That let us use a single map for a procedure
   and its associated checklist, which only showed top-level steps with
   "Done" or "N/A" radio buttons and, occasionally, text fields or other
   sub-fields. The checklist also had a "Show step details" or "Show
   screen example" cross-links to the full procedure PDF. Very slick once
   it all was working.

   BUT this is all orthogonal to the main point, which was "how and why"
   add PDF content to a FM-source document. I was just spitballing ideas
   for Laura as I had some free time, because I find advanced/theoretical
   discussions interesting.

   Have a great week!

   David

   -------- Original Message --------
   Subject: Re: [Framers] PDFs in a FM book file
   From: Lin Sims <[1]ljsims.ml at gmail.com>
   Date: Tue, March 21, 2017 11:42 am
   To: "An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software."
   <[2]framers at lists.frameusers.com>
   David,
   I've never worked with TimeSavers (or created forms of any sort), so my
   understanding of what his tools can do is limited. He does say that he
   can
   provide custom solutions, so it may be worthwhile to contact him and
   ask
   both about the Forms Assistant capabilities and whether creating
   dynamic
   forms is possible with his tool. Be pretty cool if you could! :)

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