About Dita feature for Framemaker 10?

Hi guys,
I am considering to purchase the ATCS 3.0 to meet my customer's new request. As I am a fresh man to the Framemaker and other Adobe products, some bellow questions might be stupid:)
1. I could not find the Dita menu in the menubar in the trial version for Framemaker 10. And the import menu item is also unvailable. But they were there in the demonstration video. I am not sure if it is an complimentary feature. Please refer to the attached image.
2. The second quetion is about Dita to PDF and Webhelp. Our customer handoff the Dita source file without any style file fot the output. The only thing I got is the previous output PDF or Webhelp and they just want to leverage the style. Could anybody be so kind to provide some suggestions about how to generate a style template file according to these generated output files? My understanding is that it takes much time if we want to write a template file one by one to meet the output format requirements.
3. The third question is about how to convert the FM files in lower version like FM8 or lower into Dita files. My understanding is the Dita files are XML-based content without style. So the key point here is how to seperate the FM files to Dita and some other style-control files.
Appreciate all of your help in advance!

1.
The Import menu is only available if a document is already open. To import in the sense of opening documents in foreign formats, use File > Open, and set the filter to "All files". When you open a file, you'll be prompted to select a filter for import.
FM comes in two flavours, "FrameMaker" and "Structured FrameMaker". The DITA menu is only available in Structured FrameMaker. You can switch to Structured FrameMaker in File > Preferences > Interface.
2.
From what you wrote, it appears that your customer has already published some DITA content. Do they really need another publishing solution, or do they just want their existing FM documents to be converted to DITA?
If you want to publish with FrameMaker, there's no alternative to creating a template and structure-based formatting rules.
3.
You can set up a conversion table. A conversion table assists you in converting formatted text and frames based on their format tags to structure elements. The better your conversion table matches your format-based document structure, the less manual cleanup work will remain.
However, conversion already requires a structure application, i.e. an EDD (kind of a DTD counterpart in FrameMaker) and a template. You can use the DITA structure application that comes with FrameMaker. Depending on your requirements, you may have to customize the EDD and read/write rules of the structure application. The template shouldn't matter unless you want to use FrameMaker to publish DITA XML.
Johannes

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Good morning,
I'm making my way through this thread for the first time.
As someone who has passed the California Bar and who has been a stockbroker in the past, I would like to comment on the statement of Steve Forde, who was the Senior Product Manager for Visual Effects for Adobe for portions of 2011.
Steve said,
"Unfortunately - we get stuck in a legal pinch about commenting on ANYTHING that may or may not be in future products, off the record or otherwise."
I'm asking that you consult your internal SENIOR legal counsel again regarding this statement that you assert prohibits you from giving any details whatsoever about what the Adobe Team may or may not aspire to having in future versions of After Effects.
I'm asking this of you for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, no attorney denies that the law changes over time and recent court decisions have made shareholder derivative lawsuits much less popular as a way for the plaintiff's bar to make a quick buck by extorting money from companies who may have made aspirational statements to shareholders or others in conference calls or elsewhere.
As I understand the current trends in Delaware Law, (which, as the situs for quite a few corporations governs large swaths of their conduct) as long as appropriate disclaimers are clearly communicated at the time of the aspirational statement, such language is now permissible.
Such standard disclaimers could include language such as
"we cannot guarantee whether any feature discussed will appear within one year or within five years or whether it will ever appear at all. It is currently a goal of the design team to reintroduce this feature, but we reserve the right, in our exclusive discretion to change that decision for any reason whatsoever, without consequence.
Additionally, you are vested with no rights to rely on any assertion or representation made based on any such aspirational statement and we insist and demand you consult an attorney before embarking on any course of conduct, such as purchasing stock or altering any current or projected business plan, based in any manner upon what we say here.
However, given the above caveats, it is the current goal of the Adobe design team to reintroduce this feature within the next three releases of AE again, subject to change at our sole and exclusive direction in any manner, time or mode of our choosing, without prior notice of any kind."
If you had a standard disclaimer such as the above that you attached to any and all such statements (by having it appear within the signature block of any Adobe employee posting to this forum), it could take conversations such as this to a more rewarding level for both Adobe staff (who could share their very profound dreams and aspirations with us) and the Adobe community at large, which provides inspiration and helpful feedback to Adobe employees seeking to assist us.
Then the focus could shift to whether or not you were divulging trade secrets. But it would still permit you to be more informative in a general way.
So I ask that you run this by your SENIOR legal counsel again. Remember, just as there can be different ways to tackle the same 3D graphics animation challenge, each with rewarding results, attorneys similarly can vary from attorney to attorney and new and bright ideas on how to approach such issues do occur from time to time, especially in light of the massive favorable swings in case law supporting the rights of massive global corporations such as Adobe viz a viz the rights of the little guy.
Sincerely, Matt Dubuque
Here is Steve's quote in its entirety, from May 26, 2011:
Unfortunately - we get stuck in a legal pinch about commenting on ANYTHING that may or may not be in future products, off the record or otherwise.
That being said, as Michael explained in a previous post, Vector Paint got stuck in the conversion of AE to 64 bit. It's something we hear quite a bit from our users that Vector Paint is important. Again - wish I could give you more than that, but we are bound by very strict rules.
Therefore - it is important to us, and the more we hear via this form the more likely it is to get resources behind it in a future release. Again I realize it is impersonal, but the results of this form are sent via email to a real human every time someone hits submit; then that person brings the results of submission to a weekly meeting on the AE team where we discuss features and scheduling.
Steve
Sr. Product Manager - Visual Effects
Adobe Systems Inc.

Attaching an appropriate disclaimer may be fine for an attorney to dot all the i's and cross all the t's, but there is one thing it will NOT do: it won't stop people from misinterpreting what they read.
Most people go by what they PERCEIVE to be true and not the ACTUAL truth, a fact that people in marketing like me deal with all the time.
Steve Forde might write the following totally hypothetical and totally fictional line in a blog:
"We're thinking about a feature for a future version. Right now we call it the Clean Plate Generator. You would be able to shoot a single clip, panning and tilting the camera as desired, and After Effects would automatically create an image whose total size matches the totality of the image shot in the clip. It would even remove selected foreground subjects such as a stray person who inadvertantly walks into the shot."
Sounds great, yes? And with your proposed disclaimer, all would be good; Adobe would have covered its corporate pink posterior. Or would it?
Do you wish to speculate how many people would read that as a statement of a definitely-going-to-be-there feature in the next AE version?
Can you imagine the can of worms that would open when this fictional feature isn't in the next version?
Would it really be worth the massive and expensive fence-mending campaign Adobe would have to undertake among angry users who were erroneously looking forward to this fictional feature?
All of which could have been avoided simply by not saying a word?
I can see where attorneys may like a hypothetical situation as the one above: they could charge more billable hours! I doubt Adobe would like it, however.
Legalese is one thing, maintaining happy customers is another, and there is no amount of legalese that can overcome people's nasty tendancy to perceive what they read as what they WANT to read instead of what is actually written.
If people would read what was actually written, there would be far fewer posts in this forum that say in essence, "Hey, how come it takes two weeks to render ray tracing on the brand-new HP student laptop I just got from Wal-Mart?"

Where are FrameMaker 10 video tutorials on XML and DITA features?

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Hello,
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And for the templates: is there an easy way to create FrameMaker-DITA-templates? I read a lot about EDDs, R/W-rules and DTDs but it seems to be very complicated for non-experts to create all these different documents. And there are less help documents like demonstration videos to learn it on my own.
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A CMS (content management system) is used for storing, retrieving, and managing files. Some CMS products are specialized for DITA. But they don't usually come with the ability to create and edit maps and topics. For that, you need a DITA editor. FrameMaker is a pretty good DITA editor (especially with the DITA-FMx plugin from Leximation).
DITA maps don't need formatting. They're simply organized collections of DITA topics. The topics do need formatting in order to deliver outputs. FrameMaker can format them for print or PDF output, and is exceptionally good for this purpose. It can't directly format DITA for other outputs. For this, FrameMaker and many other products rely on the DITA-OT, which can format DITA for many outputs, such as CHM, Eclipse, or JavaHelp (and also PDF, but without the same power as FrameMaker).
To format the topics for page output, FrameMaker uses an EDD. All DITA topics are formatted using the same EDD, and Frame does this "behind the scenes" so you usually don't have to worry about it (although you can make custom adjustments to the EDD if you want).
If you are using DITA, it's a good idea to install the DITA-OT and get it working with other products. There's a Yahoo group called dita-users where you can get help with this.
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If you just want to reduce the number of elements (or eliminate specific domains from the "Topic" content model), you can modify the EDD to eliminate these elements. This will make it so these elements are not exposed as being available when authoring in FM. If you do make modifications to the default EDD (or other application files) it is strongly recommended that you clone the apps to create new application names of your own. This way, *when* you mess something up (and you will .. we all do) you'll be able to refer back to a fully functional app.
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Revive RoboHelp for FrameMaker

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If you are interested at all, please forward this information
to other FrameMaker users.
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[email protected]

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problems. I've tried importing the .mif files, but it's
inconsistent and doesn't allow me to update the graphics. I've also
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FrameMaker documents to Word documents first. I was surprised that
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usually blows up somewhere in the process. I've also tried finding
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found or received any answers to my questions and have hardly found
anything relating to .mif and RoboHelp.
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online help using FrameMaker documents.

How to a make a suggestion about new features i'd like to see in itunes

how to a make a suggestion about new features i'd like to see in itunes?
I can't find any link to do this. I found a page where you can request songs or an album to be added, but i can't find a page to submit my suggestions for itunes i have for new features i'd like to see

As of now there is no good, direct link for feedback on iTunes itself. Writing Apple might be the best option, with the website feedback page perhaps the next best.

New Features for Java GUI

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Are there any amazing features for people with disabilities not available in Windows?

I do volunteer work at a group in Tokyo which provides English conversation and light computer lessons for people with various kinds of disabilities on Sundays at a community center.
They want me to come in on Sundays for a few months and teach people - such as their other teachers - how to use Apple computers. And they bought all the teachers, including me, new MacBook Airs or MacBook Pros.
The thing is, these people are basically all Windows users, and they seem, somehow, to use their Windows machines just fine with varying disabilities. In particular, some portion of the group are blind. There is a Mac enthusiast who has gotten it into his mind that he wants more of his fellow members using Macs, rather than Windows, so he is behind this new project.
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But is there anything I can say about why Mac features for people with disabilities are better than Windows features? Any examples anybody can point me to?
Like I said, I'm happy to go over there on Sundays and help out and bring my new MacBook Pro over and hook it up to the projector and point out interesting things you can do on the Mac and answer questions.
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I've installed Captivate 6 on my laptop at work, I use it for creating training material for our project management system. I was just looking at some Adobe video tutorial and there are some features shown in the videos that I can't find on my captivate (for example Drag and Drop interaction, some particular widget like "Hangman" etc...). I tried to download them, clicking on the "Download more interactions" but there are any available. So, is there a way to get those features, at least those shown in your video tutorial for Captivate 6?
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Hello,
thank you for your answer.
I have the version 6.0, so maybe I can't get those features because of the version that I have.
Even if I click on "Download more" on the Interactions window, there are no Interactions available, but is it a problem related to my version or it's because there aren't available new features?
Thank you very much,
Elena Bettarini
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 00:40:11 -0800
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How to get more features for Captivate 6
    Re: How to get more features for Captivate 6
    created by Lilybiri in Adobe Captivate - View the full discussion
Hello and welcome,
I cannot remember for the Hangman interaction anymore, but Drag&Drop was only available for subscription users, for version 6.1.0.3190 Maybe it was not clear in the video you are pointing at, that not all features were available for box licenses. Which version do you have?
Lilybiri
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I have a thought for a new feature for Preview that I wonder how many people would say it is worth submitting to Apple, and if so, then where and how do I send it to them?
The problem I face is that I get a lot of PDF forms off websites (usually financially related) that are not created with proper form fields, so I am forced to print the form off and use my "chicken scribble" handwriting to fill it in, then I usually try to email it back, but sometimes I have to fax or mail it.
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Welcome to the Forums!
It is a good suggestion. FYI, Acrobat Professional can do this (not the free reader, of course).
Thanks also for understanding that this is not the place for suggestions to Apple!
There's no specific feedback page for Preview, so you should submit to the general OS X feedback page.
Links to other feedback pages (for your future ideas) are here.
Hope this helps...

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In order:
Yes, PS Touch uses layer blending modes just like in Photoshop (and Photoshop Elements). It doesn't have *every* blending mode, but the basics (like the ones you listed) are there.
The best that I can explain it as far as "masks" in PS Touch goes is that you paint your desired effect onto your image (via the Effects Paint tool). You do not need a mask layer per se as the effect is contained as you paint over the desired area. (You can adjust size, hardness, flow and opacity of the brush in this tool. If you have a tablet with pressure-senstive support, you can control size and opacity as well dynamically like you would with a Wacom graphics tablet connected to a desktop.)
You can add/subtract as many points as you want in the Curves adjustment. (There's a general Curves adjustment and one provided under the Effects Paint tool; both use the same interface for options.)
I don't think so, as the file system in PS Touch is self-contained (at least under Android; not sure about iOS). When you go to save a project, it's added into the main interface. (You can create folders to manage these projects, btw.) You can then export projects under a desired file type (like PSD or JPEG) locally or to a service like Adobe's own Creative Cloud or Dropbox.

Where is the "trusted source" for FrameMaker 12?

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In WIndows, that is "%userprofile%\Documents\Adobe Scripts".

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