On 7/8/10 12:50 PM, LW White wrote:
The difficult part is taking the EDD and putting in your formatting
rules. Once you do that it works great. Also, you can convert a flat
document to structured. I've played with that, and once you figure it
out its golden. Though for a single document, it would be easier to
simply open the FM files in Structured FrameMaker and add the structure
there.
Scott
Hi Mathieu,
Frame ships with a DocBook structured application. ([Frame installation
folder]\structure\sgml\docbook\app) which includes the EDD and a starter template. So,
what you would do is basically open your DocBook files using the DocBook structured app,
which is called something like DocBook 2.1. (When you open the file, Frame will detect
the DOCTYPE declaration for the doc and display a window where you can select the
structured app you want to use to open it.) You may need to do some clean-up and you'll
need to edit the template to give the docs the look and feel within Frame that you want.
You might also need to edit the rules if you have any roundtripping requirements that
they don't already cover. Although the EDD is already created for you, you might also
need to edit it, as it not only defines the structure but also "matches" each
element within context to the appropriate Frame format. If you're going to use Frame at
all for this, then yes, you must use the structured vers
io
n if you want to preserve the structure of the documents.
How much work required to turn an unstructured Frame doc into a structured one
depends on a lot of things. If the document faithfully follows a template, it
will be much simpler because conversion tools can match formats to elements in
a predictible way. The Frame conversion table is a built-in method, but there
are a number of third-party tools as well. If the document does not follow a
template, the work is more difficult and largely manual, though there are some
tools that can find and convert on manually-applied formatting vs. formatting
applied via a template style.
There are several good "getting started" videos and PDFs at
http://www.adobe.com/support/framemaker/. A great resource is the Structure Application
Developer Guide. Unfortunately, it has not been updated for Frame 9 as far as I am aware,
but the Frame 8 version is still very useful. Find it at
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/8.0/structapp_dev.pdf. There is also a Structure
Application Developer Reference Guide guide at
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FrameMaker/8.0/structapp_dev_ref.pdf.
Best,
Leigh
On 7/7/2010 8:56 AM, mathieu jacquet wrote:
Hi everybody,
I am working on Vista 64 with FM 9.
I have read that it was possible to import DocBook files into FM. But I've also read that
this could turn to nightmare when it comes to create the proper EDD. I am not familiar at
all with structured Frame. So my question is, how easy is it to import a DocBook file
into FM, and what would it require to achieve that nicely ? Also, is it mandatory to use
structured FM for doing so ? And if yes, how much work would it be to turn an
unstructured "light" FM document (3 chapters, about 75 pages) into a structured
one ?
Thank you all for your valuable expertise,
Mathieu.
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