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Installation and Setup

Detailed information about installing DITA-FMx.

DITA-FMx version 1.1 supports DITA 1.1 on FrameMaker versions 7.2, 8, and 9 and can be downloaded from www.leximation.com/dita-fmx/.

DITA-FMx is made up of two plugin components, one that provides import/export processing and one that provides general authoring support. DITA-FMx also provides three structure applications (DTD, EDD, template, and read/write rules files), two for DITA topic and map authoring and one for book publishing. The EDD and rules files have been set up to allow proper interaction with DITA-FMx. If you want to build your own DITA structure applications, you should clone these files and modify them as needed. For more information see Developing Custom Structure Applications.

If you have any installation problems or questions, please contact us at <ditafmx-help AT leximation DOT com>.

  1. Before Running the Installer
    Be sure to address all appropriate pre-installation tasks before running the installer application.
  2. Run the Installer Application
    Extract the EXE from the ZIP archive and run it.
  3. Installing the Structure Applications
    It is important to install the DITA-FMx structure applications to take full advantage of the features provided.
  4. Initializing DITA-FMx
    Request your authorization code and verify that everything is set up properly.
  5. Advanced Installation/Customization Issues
    For those people who want to customize the structure applications or modify the functionality of the authoring environment. If you are new to DITA, and have completed the previous installation steps, you should be all ready to use DITA-FMx for creating and authoring DITA XML files.
  6. Uninstalling DITA-FMx
    To remove DITA-FMx and put things back to the original form.