<from earlier post> While there's structured framemaker, dita, and a host of third party plugins can anyone really say its a simple, painless, and quick process to transition from unstructured framemaker to either structured or dita?
Sincerely, Joseph Lorenzini _______________________________________________ </from earlier post> Hi Joseph, I generally teach my students in a hands-on environment to convert legacy documents to XML in under 2 hours, so I do see the process as painless and quick. I'll be in Dallas at the Adobe booth next week for the STC Summit if you'd like a quick runthrough. Tom Aldous will also be there, and he's actually scheduled to a 15 minute runthrough of document conversion at the Adobe booth this coming Monday from 1:15-1:30 I have our complete booth schedule, including booth demos and Adobe presentations schedule available in PDF by request or at http://blogs.roundpeg.com/2010/04/adobe-stc-summit/ Of course the success of the conversion depends upon the extent to which the content adheres to a standard. For example, if your Word docs all use Normal+ for formatting, or if your FM docs are riddled with *Body, then no logic can be applied and thus, no easy conversion exists. So if your authors worked with style sheets, the supplied conversion tools (FM conversion tables) are well-worth the effort and can convert any number of documents to fairly valid XML with little relative effort. If they didn't, I know of no tool, for FM or any other editor, that will analyze and structure documents using ad hoc formatting. You are currently subscribed to framers as matt at grafixtraining.com. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/matt%40grafixtraining.co m Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
