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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thanks, Scott!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">-Gillian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> Scott Prentice [mailto:sp10@leximation.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> framers@lists.frameusers.com; Gillian Flato<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: TCS 4 as DITA out-of-the-box solution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Hi Gillian...<br>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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<a href="http://docs.leximation.com/dita-fmx/1.1/">http://docs.leximation.com/dita-fmx/1.1/</a><br>
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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>
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<a href="http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/">http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
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...scott<br>
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<pre>Scott Prentice<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>Leximation, Inc.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><a href="http://www.leximation.com">www.leximation.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 11/26/12 11:08 AM, Gillian Flato wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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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,</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Gillian Flato</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Senior Content Developer</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Skype: Gillian.B.Flato</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:Gillian.Flato@nexenta.com">Gillian.Flato@nexenta.com</a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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