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montana321
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Jan 23, 2019 8:07 PM UTC
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Converting DITA to framemaker

New to DITA. Investigating structured framemaker to see if it's something we should pursue at my company.

We are on framemaker 2017.

I've created a few sample chapters in DITA and have saved these as PDF, which is the main format we'll be targeting.

But I'm having trouble wrapping my head around how to export a dita book that mirrors the look and feel of the technical manuals we currently produce in unstructured framemaker.

Can someone point me in the direction of resources/tutorials on how I'd go about doing this? 

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Amitoj
Adobe Employee
Jan 24, 2019 6:29 AM UTC

Yes, simply choose the Book with components option when generating Ditamap to PDF.

FRAMEMAKER 11: Easy PDF output from DITAMap - YouTube

Hoping this is helpful.

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montana321Author
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Jan 24, 2019 1:18 PM UTC

Had stumbled upon that already.

My issue was that when I save it as book with components it doesn't retain any of the framemaker formatting/master pages/styling that you'd see when you open one of our current manuals.  For example, usually are technical manuals have a two column layout, versus one.

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Amitoj
Adobe Employee
Jan 25, 2019 4:54 AM UTC

for that you would need to change the template in sts file for chapter.

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