Hi, I'm not from Adobe :)
Adobe FrameMaker Server (http://www.adobe.com/products/fmserver/main.html) is essentially just a license to use FrameMaker as a backend server process. Other than that it's the same as the FrameMaker that you may have installed on your desktop. It needs customising in the same way plus it needs to be controlled automatically through the backend system (whatever that might be). In his post, Paul mentioned about FrameAC. We use this to automate FrameMaker Server as it provides an ActiveX/COM/.Net interface to FrameMaker ... nice and easy to work with. Cheers Mark -----Original Message----- From: dita-users at yahoogroups.com [mailto:dita-us...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Paul Prescod Sent: 02 December 2005 14:39 To: dita-users at yahoogroups.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com; framers at omsys.com; framemaker-dita at groups1.vip.scd.yahoo.com Subject: RE: [dita-users] DITA, and XMetaL working with FM ________________________________ From: dita-users at yahoogroups.com [mailto:dita-users at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of hedley.finger at myob.com Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 3:13 PM To: framers at lists.frameusers.com; framers at omsys.com; framemaker-dita at groups.yahoo.com; dita-users at yahoogroups.com Subject: [dita-users] DITA, and XMetaL working with FM Importance: High I saw a few familar names at Blast Radius' webinar (just concluded) on using XMetaL DITA Edition with FrameMaker. I'm pretty sure I heard Paul Prescod say that a build path to go from DITA XML to FM to PDF is being added to the DITA open toolkit. Can anyone confirm this? Or was it that just XMetaL were going to add FM to their version of the toolkit? You heard right. Mekon and Blast Radius are working on adding this capability to the open source toolkit. User interfaces for working with it will be added to XMetaL. The demo looked quite convincing. Presumably XML topic files are grouped into chapters, a book file is built, and populated with those chapters, then the TOC and Index is compiled. Sure like to know how they are doing all this from an ANT build file as FM on Windows doesn't have anything like the command-line capabilities of fmbatch on UNIX. Thus far we have not spent any effort trying to automate the creation of TOC and indexing. At the moment you just do those parts using FrameMaker menus (as I showed in the demo). In the medium and long term there are a variety of ways we could automate the generation of TOC and index: XSLT, FDK, FrameAC, FrameScript, ... Everything you saw in the XML->FM part of the demo uses Ant, XSLT, EDDs, read write rules and templates. It handles maps, topics, conditional text, conrefs, specialization, relationship tables etc. And has anybody purchased FrameMaker Server, whatever that is? The Adobe site is rather coy but says that (somehow) you can process RTF, XML, and Auld Uncle Tom Cobbleigh and all in some kind of batch process. So what IS FM Server? Is it some kind of command-line version of FM, i.e. fmbatch resurrected on Windows. I'll leave it to someone from Adobe to respond. Paul Prescod ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/I258zB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/2U_rlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: dita-users-unsubscribe at yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
