I'd like to see this as well, but also doubt that this would be
something that Adobe will get behind. You'd think that Adobe's
web-editor (Buzzword) would export to FM (or MIF), but no. It exports to
PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, ZIP, TXT, ODT, and EPUB (hmm .. need to check that
out). C'mon .. MIF is just a simple conversion from RTF! :)
...scott
Rick Quatro wrote:
One more thing regarding this: I highly doubt that Adobe is going to
do this anyway. The next best thing would be a light-weight,
inexpensive editor, either in a browser or stand-alone, that would
work with a schema to enforce standards. I suppose I am thinking of an
XML editor, so maybe this already exists. Any suggestions,
recommendations, or further discussion, would be welcome. Thank you
very much.
Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-659-8267
[email protected]
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*From:* [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Anthony Davey
*Sent:* Tuesday, February 22, 2011 5:57 AM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Frame Light, what's the potential market?
Cross posted to dita-frameusers, so ignore as needed ...
I had an interesting discussion with the Frame Product Manager a few
days ago at
the London launch event for TCS3. It seems there is the motivation to
develop a
business case for 'Frame Light' which could be used by SMEs to create
and review
content, but little else.
I work in an environment where I am the only Frame user (experimenting
with 10
at the moment) in an organisation with over 100 SMEs producing content
in Word.
Most do their own thing, or come to me to 'fix' or standardise stuff
once it is
collected together.
So, I would want 'Frame Light' to allow content creation in structured or
unstructured format (including DITA one day), but that requires the
content
provider to use only the pre-determined paragraph formats and a few
text styles
(emphasis, bold, sub- and superscript); and insert images by
reference. I can
get around a need to define conditional text by using different
paragraph format
names. All this in templates that can only be developed or altered by
full
license holders.
To support the development of a business case can you post what (other)
functionality you would want Frame Light to have, how many licenses
you would
(ideally) want in your organisation, how many full Frame licenses you
currently
have (for comparison purposes), how you would want FL delivered (local
install,
web-based, floating licenses), and what you would want/need to pay for
it to get
it accepted as an alternative to Whatever word processing your SMEs
currently
use?
Creating more disciplined (structured), reusable, content which can be
output
with a similar look and feel, and doesn't reinvent a wheel each time
an SME puts
fingers to keyboard, is a concept which has almost reached its time in my
organisation. Others may be close, or even ahead, so there must be
demand for
this. Please let me know.
Best regards,
Ant
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