Re: DITA: going from FrameMaker to oXygen

[Yves Barbion <yves -dot- barbion -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Hi Rebecca

I have done many conversions from FrameMaker to DITA. I did a presentation
on this topic together with Scott Prentice (Leximation) at tekom tcworld
2013. You can still find the slides here:

https://conferences.tekom.de/fileadmin/tx_doccon/slides/501_FrameMaker_to_XML_Conversion_Options.pdf

I've been using FrameMaker since 1993 and I still like it, but I prefer
oXygenXML Author/Editor for

   - Authoring DITA-structured content
   - Publishing that content to HTML-based output, such as EPUB and
   responsive webhelp

To publish the DITA maps to (customized) PDF, I use:

   - FrameMaker + Leximation's DITA-FMx plugin
   - MiramoDesigner and the MiramoPDF DITA-OT plugin

Both FrameMaker and MiramoDesigner have a nice graphical user interface to
design your templates for PDF, so there's no need to learn XSL-FO or
advanced CSS.

Cheers

Yves Barbion
www.flowtime.be



On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 at 02:33, Rebecca Officer <
Rebecca -dot- Officer -at- alliedtelesis -dot- co -dot- nz> wrote:

> Hi everyone
>
> Have any of you converted from FrameMaker to oXygen for authoring DITA?
> We're considering doing so and I'd really appreciate hearing about what
> people like and loathe about the change.
>
> Thanks
> Rebecca
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