Re: Framemaker vs XMetal for structured authoring

2009-07-30 Thread Liz Fraley
I agree that for efficient, cost-effective localization, you need to be in XML. We just helped a customer reduce the cost of translation for one document from $20K to $6K. And this is the number for just one book and one product. (As a side note, this particular customer went to Arbortext from Fra

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2009-07-30 Thread Bertrand Lefort
Hello, I am a new user of Framemaker. We are currently implementing Framemaker and DITA to manage or systems documentation for users. I have a question concerning the creation of complete book structure with cover page, TOC, content... I found one way with standard ditamap but it seems that bo

Framemaker vs XMetal for structured authoring

2009-07-30 Thread Joe Campo
Hi Verner We are migrating to XMetal DITA from RoboHelp and Frame/webworks. We like that XMetal is in one package and we don't have to worry about maintaining multiple applications to output our deliverables (chm, single html, and pdf). Granted the PDF output has been difficult to achieve, but we h

Re: Epic x FrameMaker x Epic XML glitches?

2009-07-30 Thread Paul Nagai
Hi Art, I am not aware of anyone doing this as part of their workflow. I do subscribe to the theory, however, that the active word in "round tripping XML" is "trip." Preserving, adding, removing, re-adding, ignoring "special" stuff each application might require (think processing instructions) can

Epic x FrameMaker x Epic XML glitches?

2009-07-30 Thread Paul Nagai
Hi Art, I am not aware of anyone doing this as part of their workflow. I do subscribe to the theory, however, that the active word in "round tripping XML" is "trip." Preserving, adding, removing, re-adding, ignoring "special" stuff each application might require (think processing instructions) can

Epic x FrameMaker x Epic XML glitches?

2009-07-30 Thread Art Campbell
A client is currently using Epic as their XML editor. Has anyone run into any problems round-tripping Epic XML files (with DTD) through FM 9 and back into Epic? TIA, Cheers, Art Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52

Framemaker vs XMetal for structured authoring

2009-07-30 Thread Liz Fraley
I agree that for efficient, cost-effective localization, you need to be in XML. We just helped a customer reduce the cost of translation for one document from $20K to $6K. And this is the number for just one book and one product. (As a side note, this particular customer went to Arbortext from Fra

re: Framemaker vs XMetal for structured authoring

2009-07-30 Thread Joe Campo
Hi Verner We are migrating to XMetal DITA from RoboHelp and Frame/webworks. We like that XMetal is in one package and we don't have to worry about maintaining multiple applications to output our deliverables (chm, single html, and pdf). Granted the PDF output has been difficult to achieve, but we h

Epic x FrameMaker x Epic XML glitches?

2009-07-30 Thread Art Campbell
A client is currently using Epic as their XML editor. Has anyone run into any problems round-tripping Epic XML files (with DTD) through FM 9 and back into Epic? TIA, Cheers, Art Art Campbell art.campb...@gmail.com "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52 Vin