framemaker corporate templates with dita
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Tips for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and FrameMaker Users of Al l Ski l l Levels
Bernard Aschwanden
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bernard@pub l i sh ingsmar te r. com
Setting up a Corporate Template for DITA with
FrameMaker 20151
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Housekeeping and note taking
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Thanks to Adobe!Not all slides or topics are equally weightedUse some, discard othersSlides speed varies (reference) but this is a
QUICK sessionQuestions? Ask along the way!
I’d love to claim errors/typos is on purpose… they isn’t, ain’t, and weren’t never; however, I’ll fix ‘em as I can…
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About your speaker
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Publishing Smarter: President
Content strategist, publishing tech expert, author, and geek-enough
Certified Technical Trainer DITA Content management Topic-based writing
Society for Technical Communication President STC Associate Fellow
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Solving business problems through communication
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Standard disclaimer
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In the interest of brevity I will make some blanket statements to keep it simple
It’s not all 100% “the truth”, but I’ll stay close
Purists may complain And they are wrong! (except when they are
right)
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Slides and demo (alternating)
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Let’s get to it
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In the next 60 minutes
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FrameMaker (2015 release) uses many DITA templates including ones for writing topics, concepts, references, tasks, or maps, and others when publishing.
Learn where these templates are stored and how to configure them.
See tips and tricks to updating the default templates to more closely match existing company templates, or even replace them with your own styles.
Adjust the EDD as needed to further refine the appearance of output.
This session explores the default templates and ideas can be recreated using your own templates.
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Power use required
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You need to have permissionsLaunch FM as an administrator
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Template locations
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For the author to have a custom setup, you need to be able to work with:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker2015\Structure\xml\DITA_1.2\app\technicalContent\template
Your path MAY differ a bit, but the important bits stand out…
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Basic setup changes
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1. Create a new task/concept/reference, etc and view the default appearances
2. Open a template and change the zoom3. Create a new t/c/r and view the defaults4. Open a template and change view settings
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EDD Locations
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If you want to further define what is in your template, you need to be able to work with:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\AdobeFrameMaker2015\Structure\xml\DITA_1.2\app\technicalContent\edd
Your path MAY differ a bit, but the important bits stand out…
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Publishing paths
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Author templates and publish templates are in different locations
Consider: Authors may want to have a template that shows draft-
comments, or uses conditions, or even has watermarks for PDF
Publishing may want to have templates that don’t
\Structure\xml\DITA\outputTemplates
Your path MAY differ a bit, but the important bits stand out...
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Further (geeky) reading
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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/dita/framemaker_customization.pdf
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/2015/ini/framemaker_2015_ini_reference.pdf
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Follow up contact information
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905 833 8448 (Eastern Time)
www.linkedin.com/in/bernardaschwanden
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