RE: Aware of such a System

["Ole Andersen" <ora -at- dita-exchange -dot- com>]

If you are looking for a system that can output pdf, word, htmlhelp,
javahelp, eclipse, docbook, XML and HTML out of the box you might want
to have a look at www.dita-exchange.com. DITA Exchange can easily be
customized to output to other formats as well. The fundamentals of DITA
Exchange are structured XML-components (Maps and Topics) - according to
the global DITA standard.

DITA Exchange builds on Microsoft SharePoint 2007 Server and is
therefore a complete
end-to-end-single-source-publishing-and-collaboration platform.

Best regards, Ole

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Sent: 26. april 2007 18:41
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Subject: Re: Aware of such a System

PostNuke, NukePhP, Drupal, Joomla, Mamba (the list is quite extensive)
all fit into the category of CMS that are primarily used by many folks
to establish some sort of online presence.  I suspect what Gail is
really looking for is something with the capabilities of Livelink
(http://www.opentext.com/2/sol-products/sol-pro-edocs-products2.htm).
I've used Livelink, Documentum and Enigma concurrently in the past,
which allowed for content management, revision control, and .pdf/on-line
xml-based, end-user libraries.  Tie in Framelink or some other kind of
adapter (e.g., Arbortext), and you've pretty much got the whole package.
One has to have a pretty large budget to pursue a path like that though.

Regardless whether going the proprietary or open source route, you have
to first determine what you actually want to be able to do, as was
already mentioned in earlier posts.  If you're looking for a complete
open-source package that will do everything I've mentioned in the first
paragraph (and then some), I don't believe one exists (yet), but some
come close.  You could probably piece an integrated solution together
using something like CVS in your fundamental framework.  There are also
a number of other pretty handy tools that might fill your needs, many of
which are written in java.  Have a look at
http://www.manageability.org/blog/stuff/open-source-document-repository/
view for more information about them.  

Good luck,

jan cohen

----- Original Message ----
From: Gail Former <gail -dot- former -at- accenttech -dot- com>

Are there any open source CMS's out there for print applications? 
Everything we've looked at so far is either extremely pricey (commercial

applications), or seems to be for the web. What we need at the moment is

something for paper output (PDFs) that works with structured FrameMaker 
and is either open source or reasonably priced.

Or are we missing the point completely, and those that appear to be for 
the web will work for any output?

Sorry to sound so stupid, but this is not my area of expertise.

Gail







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