Good point. I always assume DITA when people talk about this stuff .. but if you're using a very basic XML model the stylesheet development is much easier (of course, so is the FM app development, so it might be a wash).
Cheers, ...scott On 2/28/13 6:46 AM, Harro de Jong wrote: > > You had to mention DITA, didn't you? ;-) > > We've made FO stylesheets for PDF output from Author-IT, those > typically take a couple of days. The DITA Open Toolkit looks > positively byzantine by comparison. > > > Harro de Jong > > *From:*framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com > [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] *On Behalf Of *Yves Barbion > *Sent:* woensdag 27 februari 2013 15:58 > *To:* framers at lists.frameusers.com > *Subject:* Re: Frame versus XSL-FO > > Hi Harro > > If you can develop an FO stylesheet for DITA-sourced content in only 3 > times the amount of time it takes me to develop the same DITA-FMx > template, then we should talk. We may have a lot of work for you then. ;-) > > Cheers > > > -- > Yves Barbion > www.scripto.nu <http://www.scripto.nu> > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Harro de Jong > <Harro.deJong at triviewgroup.com <mailto:Harro.deJong at triviewgroup.com>> > wrote: > > That's not been my experience with FO templating. I've seen FO > templating take maybe 1.5-3x as long as in FrameMaker. $200k sounds > more like they developed an entire formatting engine. > > > Harro de Jong > Triview > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > You are currently subscribed to framers as sp10 at leximation.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/sp10%40leximation.com > > Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit > http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130228/6cd76a3c/attachment.html>
