Hi Ed...
Yes .. the cost is definitely related to the complexity. If you have FO
developers in-house, that will help a lot. The key is that you need a
solid understanding of XSLT, plus you need to fully understand page
layout concepts, and on top of that the FO language itself is huge and
complex. If you want to learn FO, I highly recommend finding a way to
take Ken Holman's class "Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO" (see
http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/). This will give you a good solid base
from which to start.
A lot of XSLT developers think that they can also do FO development.
That's where you run into trouble. There's a lot more involved.
However .. regardless of your ability to create and maintain FO
stylesheets, you can never achieve the same level of formatting with FO
that you get from FM. You can get close, and if close is good enough
(along with other benefits of FO), then FO can be a good solution.
Cheers,
...scott
On 2/27/13 12:12 PM, Ed Nodland wrote:
These are good inputs.
The "site:" for searching was new to me. Thanks
I think I will stay with Framemaker and upgrade to version 11. I hope
Adobe improves the stability and UI issues as time goes on.
I am curious if the high cost of XSL-FO development is due to FO being
more difficult then basic XSLT. We program many XSLTs, some are
complex that merge data from multiple XML files that contain coded
data in tables, tables of descriptions of the coded data, header data,
etc. XSLT becomes a powerful programming language for text processing
if it is written recursively like the old LISP language. I agree this
can be daunting, but maybe I could eat FO for breakfast. I'll have to
looking to it further when due dates don't get in my way.
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Combs, Richard
<richard.co...@polycom.com <mailto:richard.co...@polycom.com>> wrote:
Harro de Jong wrote:
> > Also, I could not find the search capability on frameusers.com
<http://frameusers.com> to search
> older topics
> > by keyword other then the archive that looks like something
out of the 90's.
> Am I
> > missing some capability somewhere?
>
>
> I use the search at
> <
http://www.mail-archive.com/framers@lists.frameusers.com/info.html>
I use Google: <search term> site:frameusers.com
<http://frameusers.com>
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111 <tel:303-223-5111>
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