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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font face="Verdana">Hi Gillian...<br>
<br>
As I'm sure you're aware, I'm a big proponent of using Frame for
DITA authoring, but I do try to remain reasonably objective when
comparing it to other DITA tools.<br>
<br>
The big thing that sets TCS apart from other DITA authoring
tools is that in addition to authoring, it provides a more
complete publishing solution for both PDF and various online
formats. Other authoring tools will likely bundle the DITA-OT as
the publishing tool, which can work quite well, if you've got
XSLT developers at your disposal. The HTML-based formats aren't
too much work to customize, but if PDF is an important
deliverable, you're in for a lot of time and money to get XSL-FO
styleheets built that would be something you'd deliver to your
customers.<br>
<br>
Because TCS includes RoboHelp, you'll find it much easier to get
online Help from DITA, and you'll be hard-pressed to get PDFs
from the OT that come close to what you can get from Frame.<br>
<br>
Personally, I use Frame for authoring DITA and Oxygen for coding
XML/XSL. Oxygen is a great tool, but I much prefer the authoring
experience with Frame over any other tool out there. I publish
PDFs from Frame (via DITA-FMx), and use the OT for my online
outputs (HTML, CHM, and EPUB). Samples here ..<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://docs.leximation.com/dita-fmx/1.1/">http://docs.leximation.com/dita-fmx/1.1/</a><br>
<br>
If you do decide to use Frame/TCS for DITA, you should check out
DITA-FMx, which provides numerous additional authoring features,
as well as makes publishing complete and PDF-ready books much
easier than the default options ..<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/">http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/</a><br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
...scott<br>
<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.leximation.com">www.leximation.com</a>
+1.415.485.1892
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On 11/26/12 11:08 AM, Gillian Flato wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I went to a presentation last week given by
Maxwell Hoffman from Adobe on TCS v4.x. He stated that TCS
v4.x is an out-of-the-box DITA solution that contains DTDs,
EDDs, etc, so you don’t have to go to third-party solutions to
obtain the necessary pieces.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Has anyone used TCS v4.x as a complete DITA
solution? Are you liking it? Is it better or worse than using,
for example, XMetal or Oxygen with 3<sup>rd</sup>-party
scripts, etc.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Thank
You,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Gillian
Flato<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
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Content Developer<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Skype:
Gillian.B.Flato<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Gillian.Flato@nexenta.com">Gillian.Flato@nexenta.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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