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Hello Gillian<br>
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Regarding your question about TCS4 being the "complete solution" for
DITA. You have to analyze that statement rather carefully and
remember it's from the evangelist! The comments below are from a
TCS4 user.<br>
<br>
First, several of the components of TCS4 have nothing at all to do
with DITA - Captivate, Illustrator, RoboScreen Capture, and Acrobat.
That basically leaves FrameMaker and RoboHelp as candidates. So
right there you ask yourself: would buying just FM and RH be better
and/or cheaper?<br>
<br>
FrameMaker does come with DTDs, EDDs, and templates provided, so you
can immediately create, save, and open DITA XML documents. You'd
want to tweak the templates, of course, and it helps if you are
familiar with EDDs. As an XML editor, FM11 in my view is a big step
forward from 9 and 10, but I doubt it can compete with oXygen or
xMetal (I have not used the latter). The ability to output fine PDF
is a key difference in favour of FM. There are some deficiencies in
FM, which Scott Prentice has identified in his comparison at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/featurecomparison.php">http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/featurecomparison.php</a> (that
comparison covers FM10 but not 11, but it's still applicable). You
may want to supplement FM11 with DITA-FMx, though there are pros and
cons for that too.<br>
<br>
Moving on to RoboHelp: RH was fundamentally designed as an HTML
authoring tool. Integration with FrameMaker has been cobbled into
it, and it works on book files, not ditamaps. So you have to create
your book from a ditamap in FM, then open the book in RH. RoboHelp
can also process ditamaps directly, but it rather depends on the day
of the week and how you hold your mouth. I sometimes have a problem
with the mouth part. DITA support in RH has a loooong way to go, and
the glowing reports I read of DITA support in WebWorks (not cheap)
give me the impression that is probably the better tool.<br>
<br>
Having said all that, yes, you can use TCS4 to output DITA to PDF
and HTML (we do it). If you don't want impressive PDF, FM is
inferior to the alternatives you mention. If you're happy to just
have FM and forgo the other TCS4 components, there are other tools
you could use with FM alone to create output from DITA files:
WebWorks, as mentioned, DITA2Go, etc.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps alleviate some of the marketing overhead!<br>
<br>
Roger Shuttleworth<br>
London, Canada<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/11/2012 2:08 PM, 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
style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Senior
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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