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Re: Moving from IBM to Mac

Subject: Re: Moving from IBM to Mac
From: David Knopf <dklists -at- knopf -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:30:36 -0800


on 11/15/2004 10:25 AM eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com wrote:

David Knopf wrote on 11/15/2004 12:25:14 PM:

If you are using
FrameMaker to create XML as part of an XML publishing workflow, however,
you gain nothing in particular from the .fm format.


Not so. Unless round-trip use of XML source is absolutely necessary, making XML your native format has a number of limitations and complications.

There are a number of advantages to keeping all editing and source files in FM binary format and only saving to XML when required by the workflow.

Two great advantages are only needing one machine set up with the correct read/write rules and the "simplicity" of only having to create write rules and one-way (FM to XML) scripts or FDK plugins.

This is just not a factor in any of the enterprise publishing environments we work in. Round-tripping is a standard, required part of the workflow, and all machines are outfitted with the correct set of r/w rules, scripts, plug-ins, etc.



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