Thank you for all your replies and much appreciated information. I now have a
much better understanding of Arbortex and its capabilities and hopefully can
influence next week's meeting to get a positive outcome (keep Frame).
Chris Ross
Senior Technical Writer
Sustainment and Engineering
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> -Original Message-
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:33:56 +
> From: "ROSS, Chris"
> To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com"
> Subject: [Framers] Arbortext v Frame
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> My company is thinking of changing from Framemaker to Arbortext. I h
I'll second Paul Nagai's comments. It was a corporate thing before PTC took
over, and it has become very enterpricy since.
I'd like to add that I really like Arbortext Editor as an authoring tool,
and that Arbortext Styler is kind of magic. I wouldn't mind working in a
setting with an
in mind my disclaimers in the first paragraph.
David Creamer
IDEAS Training
-Original Message-
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 00:33:56 +
From: "ROSS, Chris"
To: "framers@lists.frameusers.com"
Subject: [Framers] Arbortext v Frame
My company is thinking of changing from Framem
Hi,
I am not an author but I have been supporting an Arbortext XML authoring
environment more or less full time since 2002.
Is Arbortex easy to use and intuitive?
No. Unless an author is more comfortable in a text (and tag) based editor
AND thinks WYSIWYG is waste of CPU AND that formatting
What are the expectations of switching? Efficiency of production, lower
ongoing cost, using a platform which doesn't support FrameMaker, better
integration with existing or planned new systems, or…?
There's always a cost to changing a working system and retraining users, as
well as migrating
I've seen this before. The sales staff at PTC (parent company of
Arbortext) are _very_ good. They reach exactly the right people, at the
right level in the organization, to make the sale. They are likely
selling Arbortext as a companion to PTC's other enterprise product data
management
.
Subject: [Warning - External] Re: [Framers] Arbortext v Frame
I don't know much about Arbortext, but iin addition to an XML editor
they also have a CMS and a single-source publishing system. It seems
kind of weird to be considering only Arbortext rather than evaluating
all the options.
What
: [Framers] Arbortext v Frame
Are you working with XML files in FM or structured FM files? Arbortext
is an XML editor, FM can edit XML directly or it can work with
structured FM files .. it's not clear which you're using. If you're
using XML, you could, in theory author those files in Arbortext
I don't know much about Arbortext, but iin addition to an XML editor
they also have a CMS and a single-source publishing system. It seems
kind of weird to be considering only Arbortext rather than evaluating
all the options.
What flavor of structured FrameMaker are you using? DITA? SD1000?
On
Are you working with XML files in FM or structured FM files? Arbortext
is an XML editor, FM can edit XML directly or it can work with
structured FM files .. it's not clear which you're using. If you're
using XML, you could, in theory author those files in Arbortext, without
much effort. If
My company is thinking of changing from Framemaker to Arbortext. I have been
asked to attend a meeting, consisting mainly of managers and accountants, to
represent the Tech writing population.
I have never used Arbortext before and am finding it very difficult to download
a trial version to
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