<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>Thanks, appreciate the help and info.</div><div><br></div><div>-Gillian</div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On Nov 20, 2014, at 2:59 PM, Scott Prentice <<a href="mailto:sp14@leximation.com">sp14@leximation.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Gillian...<br>
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You may want to post this question to the framemaker-dita Yahoo
group for additional info.<br>
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1) There are no DITA "publishing scripts" in FM. To generate a PDF
you save the map to a book file (with FM chapter files), then save
the book to a PDF. The formatting of the generated FM files is
controlled by the structure application(s). Customizing the
structure applications is far more complex than can be explained
in an email, but that's where you'll need to look. Note that there
is no difference between DITA authored in Oxygen or FM .. if it's
valid DITA, it's just DITA. Some people think that DITA in FM
isn't "pure DITA" .. it should be, and if it's not, it's not DITA.<br>
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<note type="vendor-comment">DITA-FMx provides a much easier
path to publishing and customizing than you'll get with default
FM, and can be fully automated with additional tools.</note><br>
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2) It depends on what you're trying to do. Here's the official
list, the mode of "connection" to FM and the effectiveness of
these CMSes can be debated ..<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/cms-integration.html">http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/cms-integration.html</a><br>
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<note type="vendor-comment">DITA-FMx connects to the XDocs
CMS, which is I believe the lowest-cost CMS on the list. We are in
the process of working on a connector with easyDITA as
well.</note><br>
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3) It depends on how consistently tagged your FM files are. If
your FM files are a "mess" it's going to be really hard .. if your
FM files are really clean, it's going to be just reasonably hard.
The sample files and webinar on this page may be of some use ..<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://leximation.com/downloads/adobe-fm2xml-2013/">http://leximation.com/downloads/adobe-fm2xml-2013/</a><br>
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Cheers,<br>
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...scott<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 11/20/14 11:35 AM, Gillian Flato wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Guys,
I am considering using Tech Comm Suite 5 for a project. I have some questions which I know you guys can answer better than Adobe:
1. How do you edit the publishing scripts to make custom-designed PDFs? Is it the same as with Oxygen and “pure” DITA? I have edited custom plugins that I used with Oxygen.
2. What’s a good, relatively low-cost CMS to use with Tech Comm Suite 5?
3. How easy is it to convert unstructured Frame docs to DITA docs to be used in Frame?
Thanks!
-Gillian
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