Harro...
Yes .. $200K is a bit extreme, and hopefully not the norm, but that is
what can happen over a number of years of tweaking and adjustments of FO
stylesheets. Something that many groups do as a natural course of events
through FrameMaker templates. My main point is that it's good to be
aware that you'll need to outsource a task (page and layout design) that
your existing employees are perfectly qualified to perform, when
switching to an FO-based publishing workflow. Other benefits may offset
that expense, which is fine.
Cheers,
...scott
On 2/27/13 3:19 AM, Harro de Jong wrote:
Scott Prentice wrote:
If your PDF layout requirements are very simple, XSL-FO *may* be a good option
for you. ...
In my opinion, FO is good for high volume and moderate to low PDF formatting
requirements. Yes, you can make it do most of what you can do with Frame, but
it'll
require a huge amount of coding and effort. I have seen people spend well over
$200K on FO development over many years to achieve moderate looking PDFs.
Something that might take a week to develop with FrameMaker.
That's not been my experience with FO templating. I've seen FO templating take
maybe 1.5-3x as long as in FrameMaker. $200k sounds more like they developed an
entire formatting engine.
Harro de Jong
Triview
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