Good point. I always assume DITA when people talk about this stuff .. but if you're using a very basic XML model the stylesheet development is much easier (of course, so is the FM app development, so it might be a wash).

Cheers,

...scott

On 2/28/13 6:46 AM, Harro de Jong wrote:

You had to mention DITA, didn't you? ;-)

We've made FO stylesheets for PDF output from Author-IT, those typically take a couple of days. The DITA Open Toolkit looks positively byzantine by comparison.


Harro de Jong

*From:*framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-boun...@lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Yves Barbion
*Sent:* woensdag 27 februari 2013 15:58
*To:* framers@lists.frameusers.com
*Subject:* Re: Frame versus XSL-FO

Hi Harro

If you can develop an FO stylesheet for DITA-sourced content in only 3 times the amount of time it takes me to develop the same DITA-FMx template, then we should talk. We may have a lot of work for you then. ;-)

Cheers


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Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu <http://www.scripto.nu>

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Harro de Jong <harro.dej...@triviewgroup.com <mailto:harro.dej...@triviewgroup.com>> wrote:

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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