Hello,
I'm using DITA in structured FM 12 and want to use the ditamap-to-fmbook-to PDF workflow. However, I was expecting the nested topicrefs to aggregate into a chapter fm file when I save the bookmap/ditamap to a FrameMaker 12 Book with Components. Instead, I'm simply getting a separate fm file for every single DITA topic/topicref regardless of how it's nested in the bookmap/ditamap. When I Save as PDF each topic starts on its own page in the PDF. I was expecting that FM would pull these nested files into a FM chapter file, so that when the PDF is built, there would be a break before each chapter, but the topics within the chapter would flow continuously.
Couple of things to note:
- FM correctly puts the top level topics as chapters in the TOC, and I get the appropriate heading levels/styles.
- I've tried this with bookmaps and ditamaps with individual topicrefs and maprefs to sub-ditamaps and get the same result regardless of the configuration.
So I have a couple of questions:
- Does FrameMaker support this functionality? The DITA-FMx plugin looks like it does. Do I need to purchase it?
- If it does support it, how do I change the configuration? I've been through the template.fm files, the EDDs, and the ini files and I cannot see where this is controlled.
- If FrameMaker won't aggregate the individual files, is there a way to eliminate the page breaks between topics.
I'm hoping the answer is not to nest topics in topics or add content as section conrefs to topics to artificially create this hierarchy.
I appreciate your time and help,
Rob