Hi Robert You are correct in saying that it takes more time to be productive with FrameMaker and DITA, but I think "two weeks or more of downtime" is a bit exaggerated. With DITA-FMx, you can be up and running within an hour (or two). Moreover, DITA-FMx has good documentation and an excellent sample (i.e. the documentation itself). And if you know how to design FrameMaker templates, you can have your customized PDFs in a day (or two), which can easily take two weeks or more with XSL-FO.
Cheers Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Robert Lauriston <rob...@lauriston.com>wrote: > That sounds like manual coding with a text editor. I expect more from > an authoring tool. > > I know enough about DocBook and DITA that I could be immediately > productive with Oxygen XML or XMetal. In contrast, FrameMaker looks > like two weeks or more of downtime while dealing with the lack of > documentation and samples and the relatively crude UI.
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