Doxygen to FrameMaker or ?

Question

Hello FrameMaker users,
 
I need to get Doxygen output (API docs) into a professional-looking format.
 
1. Is FrameMaker the right tool for this, or is there something better to use?
2. If FrameMaker is the right tool, should I go with structured or non-structured FM?
3. What Doxygen output format is the best to begin working with? (RTF, XML, PDF?!?, ...)
4. Is there an alternative to Doxygen output? (Maybe that's a better first question since it's higher-level...)
 
Any recommendations, tips, pointers, etc. would be most welcome, since at the moment Word is my default option (ew). I have some preliminary ideas and guesses, but I'd appreciate advice from someone who has actual experience with Doxygen output.
 
--Laura
 
P.S.  I'm a career tech writer and quite familiar (15+ years) with unstructured FrameMaker, and love it for tech docs. I've used most of the other tools, too (25+ years).

frameexpert · Accepted Answer

Hi Laura, I am not familiar with Doxygen, but if it can output XML, I would suggest looking at the XML to Structured FrameMaker route. This should be more reliable and require less clean up than going from RTF to unstructured FrameMaker. I would be glad to look at your files via a web meeting to give you some ideas. There would be no cost for this. Please contact me offlist if you are interested. Thanks. -Rick rick at frameexpert dot com

Jeff_Coatsworth · Answer

I guess you could use RTF to import into FM and then tweak with tags to make it pretty. Most suggestions when I did a google of "create PDFs from Doxygen" talk about going to PDF via Latex.

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