DITA-FMx

Developed by Leximation and Silicon Publishing
$235 (single license), $3525 (site license for up to 25 users)

We are proud to announce that iG5 Authoring Tools are now resellers, distributors, and providers of training and first-tier support for DITA-FMx.

DITA-FMx is available as a stand-alone product, or as part of our DITA consultancy and implementation service.

Try DITA-FMx free for 30 days!

Click here to read Andy Lewis’s article on DITA-FMx in the Summer 2009 issue of Communicator, the magazine of the Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators.

What It Does

DITA-FMx is a set of plug-ins and structure applications that enable you to create and edit DITA XML files in FrameMaker. More accurately, DITA-FMx is a set of three structured applications (topic, map, book) each consisting of an EDD, a template and a host of read/write rules.

DITA-FMx greatly extends the native FrameMaker DITA feature set, creating the potential for you to radically modify and streamline your FrameMaker DITA workflow. Click here for a detailed comparison of DITA-FMx functionality with FrameMaker.

DITA-FMx 1.1 supports the DITA 1.1 specification and FrameMaker versions 7.2, 8, and 9. A version of DITA-FMx that supports FrameMaker version 10 is planned for the near future.

DITA-FMx version 1.1.14 includes the following updates:
  • Default structure applications are automatically installed
  • New CallClient APIs have been added
  • Integration with the FMx-Auto addon
  • Integration with DITA2Go
  • Integration with SuiteHelp DITA-OT plugin
  • Updated the version of the import/export client to 1.1.14
  • XML Read Report messages no longer report missing images in book build
  • Use ditavals in Book Build process without registering the ditaval file
  • Added new Book Build setting for controlling conditions
  • New maps are opened in document view
  • Fixed problem with writing of duplicate document dictionary PIs
  • Added support for proper whitespace handling around conrefs and xrefs
  • Corrected problems when using nesting separators in see-also index entries
  • Conrefs to tables and footers now properly round trip with the XDocs CMS
  • Attribute selection in the Set Attributes dialog remains correct when switching elements
  • External links with a desc element format properly
  • Fixed problems with fragref and synnoteref elements
  • syntaxdiagram/title is not treated as a figure title
  • Linebreak PIs are no longer added to preformatted elements
DITA-FMx version 1.1.13 includes the following updates:
  • Fixes to the Book XSLT file (bookmap2fmbook.xsl) – Updated $href translation to replace backslashes with an underscore to properly support maps created with default FM DITA (lines 707 and 996), and added topicgroup to the list of elements that were unwrapped (line 1068)
  • Eliminated Japanese error messages in FrameMaker 10 book build processing
  • The “Move fig/title” book-build feature now moves the fig/desc
  • The “Hide Conditionalized Content” book-build feature now works properly
  • Proper handling of cross-references with @type=’fm:’
  • The “PageStartSide” book-build INI parameter allows chapters with uneven pages
  • Tables no longer overlap with the content that follows
  • Test for invalid marker elements on save
DITA-FMx version 1.1.12 includes the following new features:
  • Support for FrameMaker 10
  • Support for Windows Vista and Windows 7
  • Round-tripping of forced line breaks
  • Stores document dictionary items in the DITA file for easier spell checking easier
  • New user interface for defining doctype/application mapping
  • New auto-prolog and file name building blocks
DITA-FMx version 1.1.11 includes the following new features:
  • Improved handling of booklists elements
  • Support for language-specific book-build INI files
  • Support for table cell rotation
  • Improved and simplified book-build process
  • New DITA File dialog pre-selects last used element template
  • Added “Merge Para Tags” command
DITA-FMx version 1.1.10 includes the following new features:
  • Integration with SDL Trisoft
  • Better integration with Windows Vista and Windows 7
  • New “Save View Settings” command (no need to modify the templates to set custom view options)
  • Auto-open maps in document view (FrameMaker 9 only).
  • Import map metadata as variables or conditional text settings in generated FrameMaker books
  • Pre- and post-book build scripts ensure that all files are set up properly for each book build
  • Book-build INI settings can override defaults to ensure a consistent book build
  • Specify the template you require for each book component via the topicref/@outputclass variable
  • New file name building blocks
  • New and updated component templates
  • Updated XSLT import script which supports new features and provides better handling for complex map structures

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