Oh my .. I don't know how I left that out of my post. Yes .. DITA2Go is an excellent choice for publishing from DITA. Especially since you can now run it directly from the DITA-FMx menu in Frame (7.2 on up)!
Jeremy .. I may just quote you in the future. This is so true .. "OT is the most expensive free software ever created" .. ! Cheers, ...scott On 5/18/12 11:02 AM, Jeremy H. Griffith wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 10:01:28 -0700, Scott Prentice wrote: > >> To step back a bit .. the DITA-OT is a library of XSLT and Java code >> that lets you create may types of output (HTML, CHM, Eclipse Help, Java >> Help, PDF, etc.). Yes, it's free and can be used to create all sorts of >> output from DITA, but it can be a fair amount of work to set up and make >> things look the way you want. > To say the least. You need to become an XSLT programmer > to use it for anything of commercial quality. And while > it has a facility for adding your changes via plugins > so that they survive version changes (which are frequent), > there are still many reports of breakage from one rev to > the next. IMHO, the OT is the most expensive free software > ever created... ;-) > >> If you're using Frame for authoring DITA, >> there's really no reason to use the OT for creating PDFs (it's way more >> work and the results are far from stellar) .. > Yes. Definitely use Frame for PDFs. In fact, even if > you are not using Frame to author, using it with DITA-FMx > for making PDFs is a better idea than using the OT. > >> however, it can be a good >> option for online output *if* you're willing to do the coding to make >> things work the way you want. > Not just "willing", also capable. XSLT is a programming > language, not a "scripting" language. It makes shell > scripts, and even perl<g>, look easy... If you want > to get the flavor of it, get Michael Kay's book, > ISBN 9781861005069, Wrox, $34.99 US, 972 pp., or a > more recent edition of it (mine is 2001, before XSLT2). > To attempt PDF, you also need Dave Pawson'r O'Reilly > book on XSL-FO, another language of its own. > >> It is likely to be easier to use RoboHelp >> (or Flare) to create the online output, but then you're paying for a >> proprietary tool. You decide where you want to spend the money. :) > Or, use DITA2Go, which is Mif2Go with a DITA front end, > and which is *free* for everyone. DITA2Go produces all > the outputs Mif2Go does, including Word RTF, from your > ditamaps and bookmaps, and supports almost all DITA 1.2 > features including keyrefs. To get it, sign up on: > http://dita2go.com > > If "free" isn't important, WebWorks lets you include > DITA, Frame, and Word sources in the very same project, > the only tool I know of that does that with real single- > sourcing (like *2Go), not just import. > > HTH! > > -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. > <jeremy at omsys.com> http://mif2go.com/ > _______________________________________________ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20120518/783cb3f0/attachment.html>
