I have years of experience with DITA but structured/unstructured Framemaker is new to me.I am trying to style PDF output from DITA using the native Frame template/rendering engines (i.e. not the DITA-OT) in FM 2017.I've been using the 'Save Ditamap as" > "Book 2017 with Framemaker Components" workflow. I've hit three stumbling blocks:Additional front matter: Doing <notices href="copyright.dita" toc="no"/> does not pick up the copyright page.Additional back matter: My corporate style requires a back coverCustomized front cover content. I need to support additional text fields on the front cover. I've populated the bookmap's booklibrary mainbooktitle aand booktitlealt elements, but they are concatenated into one variable (Chapter Title Name) in the conversion process to unstructured Frame.For questions 1 and 2, is there a way to customize the list of components generated when converting?For question 3, how can I adjust the mapping between bookmap elements/subelements and unstructuted Frame variables used in templates?Thanks!

Participant

Question

Customizing Frame output from DITA

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
October 10, 2018
4 replies
651 views

I have years of experience with DITA but structured/unstructured Framemaker is new to me.

I am trying to style PDF output from DITA using the native Frame template/rendering engines (i.e. not the DITA-OT) in FM 2017.

I've been using the 'Save Ditamap as" > "Book 2017 with Framemaker Components" workflow. I've hit three stumbling blocks:

Additional front matter: Doing <notices href="copyright.dita" toc="no"/> does not pick up the copyright page.
Additional back matter: My corporate style requires a back cover
Customized front cover content. I need to support additional text fields on the front cover. I've populated the bookmap's booklibrary mainbooktitle aand booktitlealt elements, but they are concatenated into one variable (Chapter Title Name) in the conversion process to unstructured Frame.

For questions 1 and 2, is there a way to customize the list of components generated when converting?

For question 3, how can I adjust the mapping between bookmap elements/subelements and unstructuted Frame variables used in templates?

Thanks!

This topic has been closed for replies.

surendrab87258306

Participant

Hi rons24923379,

Did you get resloution for this?

Thanks

Surendra

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Community Expert

HI Matt, yes I do, and actually was submitting the Fm 2019 Authoring book to my publisher yesterday. (Haven't gotten through updating the EDD book for 2019 yet)

I'll PM you about the EDD class/course options.

-Matt

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

A

Amitoj

Adobe Employee

Could you drop me an email at amisingh@adobe.com and share more details on issues you are facing on #1 and #2.

thanks

amitoj Singh

Matt-Tech Comm Tools

Community Expert

You should find the process in Fm 2019 to be much more intuitive and discoverable than in previous versions. In Fm 2017 you need to edit INI files, where in Fm 2019 there is a config wizard.

-Matt

-Matt Sullivan, FrameMaker Course Creator, Author, Trainer, Consultant

mattl84896954

Known Participant

Hi Matt and Amitoj,

Does 2019 completely remove the need to use the ditafm-output.INI file? (please say yes)

I see in the PDF publish dialog there's a tab for DITA Template, so imagine that removes the need for INI to point to the template files? What about numbering rules and such - can that be handled by the wizard as well?

A

Amitoj

Adobe Employee

No it does not. Some of the settings now in dialogue for PDF settings are overridden however other settings come from ditamfm-output.ini

Thanks

Sign up

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Sign in to Adobe Community

To post, reply, or follow discussions, please sign in with your Adobe ID.

Scanning file for viruses.

This file cannot be downloaded