<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Remembering Gillian's original question: </div><div><br></div><div>"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."</div><div><br></div><div>That's the path I am setting down today. I would very much appreciate experiences and warnings form anyone using TCS4 to publish DITA content to PDF and help. </div><div>I have a bunch of DITA files, and TCS4 with DITA-FMx. It seems I have everything I need to be successful, except knowledge. I can't even find a good book on the subject!</div><div><br></div><div>john</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:45 PM, Liz Fraley <<a href="mailto:liz@caltonia.com">liz@caltonia.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">FYI Both Scott Prentice and Maxwell Hoffman will be hosting a workshop at the upcoming TC Camp in January. Want to get a first hand look at these two conversation threads in a workshop setting? Come to TC Camp: <a href="http://www.tccamp.org/">http://www.tccamp.org</a><div>
<br></div><div>Liz<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Gillian Flato <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Gillian.Flato@nexenta.com" target="_blank">Gillian.Flato@nexenta.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Thanks, Scott!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">-Gillian<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 27, 2012 11:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" target="_blank">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a>; Gillian Flato<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: TCS 4 as DITA out-of-the-box solution<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<div><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/" target="_blank">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/" target="_blank">http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
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...scott<br>
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<pre><u></u> <u></u></pre><p class="MsoNormal">On 11/26/12 11:08 AM, Gillian Flato wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><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.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Thank You,</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> </span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Gillian Flato</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Senior Content Developer</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Skype: Gillian.B.Flato</span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:Gillian.Flato@nexenta.com" target="_blank">Gillian.Flato@nexenta.com</a></span></b><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br>
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