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Adobe Technical Communication Suite Reviewer's Guide
July 10, 2012
Adobe Technical Communication Suite 4 provides a complete, flexible solution for
authoring and publishing DITA content, on the desktop, leveraging existing skill
sets.
For an overview of DITA topic and map authoring in FrameMaker 11, see the
Adobe FrameMaker Reviewer's Guide.
Try It!: DITAmap Publishing
Adobe FrameMaker allows authors to create fully DITA-compliant topic and
DITAmaps, in a familiar application interface. Choose among the standard DITA
topic types, or use the special map editor for DITA maps. You can also use the new
specialization tool to create an environment for your own DITA topic types.
FrameMaker 11 provides new capabilities for DITAmap publishing, allowing you
to automatically publish an entire book, with title page, contents, chapters, and
index, and control pagination, number, and layout.
1. In FrameMaker, open a DITAmap.
2. Choose File>Save as>Book with FM components.
FrameMaker automatically generates a book with TOC, Index, and other
generated files that you specify.
3. To configure the book, edit ditafm-output.ini in
$USER/AppData/Adobe/FrameMaker/11/fminit.
Try It!: Silent Publishing of DITA Content in FrameMaker
Publishing DITA content is easy. FrameMaker allows you to create rich PDF
output that is easy to customize, without the need for programming skills or
knowledge of obscure tools. Use FrameMaker 11 "silent publishing" to publish
DITA and other content to online formats through FrameMaker.
1. In FrameMaker, open a DITAMap.
2. Choose File>Publish.
3. Select the output type you wish to generate.
4. Specify a .isf file (configured in and exported from RoboHelp).
Once you've customized your online output in RoboHelp, you can invoke those
customizations in FrameMaker. You can also distribute your publishing
customizations to multiple authors.
Try It!: Including DITA Content Directly in RoboHelp Projects
If you need richer customization of online output, you can publish DITA topics
and maps through RoboHelp. You can import DITA XML content directly into
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