<div dir="ltr">Well, it sounds like the jury is in, and it does not look good for FO</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Scott Prentice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sp10@leximation.com" target="_blank">sp10@leximation.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font face="Verdana">Hi Ed...<br>
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Yes .. the cost is definitely related to the complexity. If you
have FO developers in-house, that will help a lot. The key is
that you need a solid understanding of XSLT, plus you need to
fully understand page layout concepts, and on top of that the FO
language itself is huge and complex. If you want to learn FO, I
highly recommend finding a way to take Ken Holman's class
"Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO" (see
<a href="http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/" target="_blank">http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/</a>). This will give you a good
solid base from which to start.<br>
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A lot of XSLT developers think that they can also do FO
development. That's where you run into trouble. There's a lot
more involved.<br>
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However .. regardless of your ability to create and maintain FO
stylesheets, you can never achieve the same level of formatting
with FO that you get from FM. You can get close, and if close is
good enough (along with other benefits of FO), then FO can be a
good solution.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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...scott<br>
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On 2/27/13 12:12 PM, Ed Nodland wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">These are good inputs.
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<div>The "site:" for searching was new to me. Thanks
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<div>I think I will stay with Framemaker and upgrade
to version 11. I hope Adobe improves the stability and UI
issues as time goes on.</div>
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<div>I am curious if the high cost of XSL-FO
development is due to FO being more difficult then basic
XSLT. We program many XSLTs, some are complex that merge
data from multiple XML files that contain coded data in
tables, tables of descriptions of the coded data, header
data, etc. XSLT becomes a powerful programming language for
text processing if it is written recursively like the old
LISP language. I agree this can be daunting, but maybe I
could eat FO for breakfast. I'll have to looking to it
further when due dates don't get in my way.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:19 AM,
Combs, Richard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:richard.combs@polycom.com" target="_blank">richard.combs@polycom.com</a>></span>
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<div>Harro de Jong wrote:<br>
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> > Also, I could not find the search capability
on <a href="http://frameusers.com" target="_blank">frameusers.com</a>
to search<br>
> older topics<br>
> > by keyword other then the archive that looks
like something out of the 90's.<br>
> Am I<br>
> > missing some capability somewhere?<br>
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> I use the search at<br>
> < <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/framers@lists.frameusers.com/info.html" target="_blank">http://www.mail-archive.com/framers@lists.frameusers.com/info.html</a>><br>
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I use Google: <search term> site:<a href="http://frameusers.com" target="_blank">frameusers.com</a><br>
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Richard G. Combs<br>
Senior Technical Writer<br>
Polycom, Inc.<br>
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom<br>
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom<br>
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