Re: Frame 10 XML/translation question

2011-12-05 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Michael Find a "translation service" (or translation company) which accepts MIF as input. If this is not an option, you could save your FM files as MIF and convert those to XLIFF (XLIFF = XML Localisation Interchange Format). Translation tools like Swordfish and others (some of the ones which W

RE: Frame 10 XML/translation question

2011-12-05 Thread Wim Hooghwinkel - idtp
Hello Michael, There are several issues you address here. First, if you want to know how easy would it be to pull the translated output (in XML format) back into Frame for publishing as PDFs: it's very easy - supposed your source for translation is XML authored in FrameMaker. But as you

Re: Frame 10 XML/translation question

2011-12-04 Thread Scott Turner
Nadine is correct I saying that the transition to XML would be massive, in that you would need to learn XML, create or standardize/accommodate your document styles to a DTD like DocBook. And then create a transformation template to convert your current documents to XML. It's not impossible, I'v

Re: Frame 10 XML/translation question

2011-12-03 Thread Writer
Wow. Big question. But here's a nutshell kind of answer... Yes, you can author in XML in FM 10. DITA XML in particular. You can create PDFs from DITA XML files by saving your ditamaps or bookmaps to FM files, and then create a PDF. Or you can create a PDF from your ditamap if you've been able