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Subject: Re: [docbook] DocBook and Publishing Software
David White <davidw@kencook.com> writes: > The company I work for is making decisions about its plans for future > docbook publishing and the current situation that Framemaker is in. > Given that Frame may not survive, What makes you think Frame may not survive? Have there been rumors about Adobe end-of-lifing it or something? It's still a really powerful program and hard to imagine (for me at least) that's it's not going to continue to be around for a long time to come. I think one thing that's limiting Frame now is that you still need a MIF parser to work with it. It wouldn't be to big leap for them to move to replacing MIF with an XML-based vocabulary. Similar to the OpenOffice XML format or WordML. Then we could work with Frame files using whatever XML parser or XSLT engine we wanted. > and that docbook / XML is the format of choice for our > publishing needs. What are your opinions on software solutions > for a publishing department? Granted the department has > individuals of different roles such as writers and editors etc. > > The tools I have seen are two fold: WYSWYG publishing (ala frame) via > Adobe InDesign (which I hear isn't ready yet to replace Quark or Frame > yet, dont know its DocBook abilities at all). It doesn't make much sense to look for publishing tools with specific support for DocBook. The DocBook XSL stylesheets generates standards-compliant XSL-FO output. So I think maybe you ought to be looking instead for tools that can work with XSL-FO. --Mike
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