I was only evaluating FrameMaker 10's XML / DocBook / DITA features to see if it made sense to use XML source instead of .fm for new projects.
Nobody pointed me to DITA-FMx. Sounds like it would be worth evaluating if I needed to do DITA. If I did not already own FrameMaker the need to buy a plugin to do something Adobe claims it can do out of the box ... well, I guess that's no different than its save-as-HTML feature or the useless version of WebWorks they used to bundle. On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Yves Barbion <yves.barbion at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Robert > > You are correct in saying that it takes more time to be productive with > FrameMaker and DITA, but I think "two weeks or more of downtime" is a bit > exaggerated. With DITA-FMx, you can be up and running within an hour (or > two). Moreover, DITA-FMx has good documentation and an excellent sample > (i.e. the documentation itself). And if you know how to design FrameMaker > templates, you can have your customized PDFs in a day (or two), which can > easily take two weeks or more with XSL-FO.
