FrameMaker Output from DITA Maps

Adobe’s blog for tech writers offer some very useful insight into using DITA with FrameMaker. Adobe FrameMaker 9 enhances the output generation for DITA Maps with additional support for the following DITA constructs:
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Attribute ‘print’: While generating output form a DITA Map, ‘print’ attribute value shall be used to determine whether the topic shall be included in the output. If no value is specified, it is assumed to be ‘yes’. User has the option to enable/disable this feature using the‘UsePrint’ option in ditafm.ini file. Set ‘UsePrint = 1’ to enable this feature.
Relationship Table Support: Relationship tables, if present in the DITA Map, shall be used to generate related links in the output. User has the option to enable/disable this feature using the ‘UseReltable’ option in ditafm.ini file. Set ‘UseReltable = 1’ to enable this feature.
DITAVal Filtering Support: The DITA Map content shall get filtered, based on the provided DITAVal file, to generate the output. The filtering gets applied to the DITA Map, as well as to all the referenced Topics within. User has the option of specifying the DITAVal file at the time of generating output.

Using Adobe FrameMaker 9, one can save a DITA Map in various formats depending on one’s requirements. It could be intermediary output, like – FrameMaker Book/Document; or it can be final output, like – Print/PDF.

http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/framemaker/

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