In addition, you must modify the dita initialization file. The interim xslfo format is passed to an fo processor like the opensource apache fop included with ditaot or a commercial solution such as antenna house formatter or renderx xep, which renders the final pdf. It would be nice if there would be a documented parameter which could be set in order for the user to control the name of the generated output file. Dita allows you to produce outputs in several formats from a single set of xml files. The 2019 release of adobe framemaker allows you to easily apply dita templates and access ditafm output controls from the pdf publishing panel. In his dita north america presentation managing complexity in dita ot pdf plugins, delivered in april 2018, bob thomas of tagsmiths, llc explained an alternative method of creating a custom pdf plugin that offers a great deal more flexibility. Structure, edit, and manage your dita content in a userfriendly visual interface that is tuned for productivity and efficiency. Customize dita templates for pdf output in framemaker.
As an usecase, from one dita map you can obtain multiple pdf outputs depending on the profiling conditions. So it would seem that all you have to do is specify the language in your dita files and maps and youre good to goor are you. More formally, dita is an open standard that describes the architecture for creating and managing information that separates the content from the formatting, allows for a more streamlined content creation process, and opens up the possibilities of introducing simpler. I have years of experience with dita but structuredunstructured framemaker is new to me.
While we started with the pdf plugin in dita ot, we soon realised that it had its limitations. Dita open toolkit ditaot is an opensource publishing engine for xml content authored in the darwin information typing architecture. Adobe framemaker 2017 has expanded support for publishing using the dita open toolkit. The pdf generator does not use the dita open toolkit, and so you dont need to use xslt. Up until now, it either takes a lot of time and skill or a lot of money to correctly brand and customize your print output using the dita open toolkit dita ot. Each of these approaches have advantages and shortcomings that. Guide to publishing with dita open toolkit dita compare. Ive been able to work around this by adding templates for the missing elements to the custom plugin. Various methods may be used to customize the pdf output that dita open toolkit produces. Enhanced support for publishing dita content using the dita open toolkit. For a onetime change, you can change the directory path when you generate the output using the dita open toolkit. This course enables you to see the final results of what you have learned in the preceding courses. When generating pdf output via the dita open toolkit, users often stumble over image scaling issues. Back in 2006, i was involved in a dita project that included a quite extensive customization of the dita open toolkit for the pdf output.
Our pdf generator allows you to create customized pdf transformation scenarios directly in easydita. The publishing for dita workshop provides attendees with a handson walkthrough of the essential dita fundamentals, programming skills, and dita open toolkit configurations required to style and publish dita xml source. Solid understanding of the dita open toolkit with knowledge of how to customize it i. It has a pluginbased architecture and it comes bundled by default with plugins for publishing to xhtmlbased and pdf formats. Introduction to dita, the dita concept topic type, the dita task topic type, the dita reference and glossary topic types, using dita maps and bookmaps, introduction to reuse in dita, and. Customizing pdf outputfrom the dita open toolkit leigh white elementalsource, llc 2. To install the created plugin in the dita ot, run the builtin transformation scenario called run dita ot integrator by executing it from the apply transformation scenarios dialog box. Updating dita ot may be a complex task in some systems. For example, it contains preinstalled plugins for converting dita content to word, epub, oxygen webhelp, or to publish to pdf using css to customize the output. The dita open toolkit is the most commonly used engine for publishing dita content to various output formats. Weve documented some pdf customizations that are not available in the pdf plugin generator. Darwin information typing architecture dita is the best way to be smart about writing and publishing your business content.
The dita ot processor comes bundled with several plugins, including the dita ot pdf plugin. There are other use cases i did not cover in this blog post. In parallel, another team at ibruk consulting created a custom pdf generation plugin. The custom frameworks that are supported in oxygen xml editor. Im creating a publication using dita and the out of the box dita ot pdf2 plugin. With the native dita support added to experience manager, generate output for experience manager sites, pdf, html5, epubs, or custom output through dita ot. Jan 09, 2018 if you already have a different version of dita open toolkit installed, you can customize the dita open toolkit path by wither editing the dita initialization file or from customize ditaot dialog. The interim xslfo format is passed to an fo processor like the opensource apache fop included with dita ot or a commercial solution such as antenna house formatter or renderx xep, which renders the final pdf. For information on the changes in the current release, see the dita ot 3. Numbered heading s i n pdf output numberedheadings custom.
The generate dita ot output dialog now comes with more customizable options wherein you can specify dita ot toolkit library path, ant command, location of additional java files to generate output, show command prompt at the time of publishing output, and more. Parameter for customizing the name of output file issue. The dita ot pdf plugin generator is developed as a spare time project by jarno elovirta and is available for use free of charge. How to use content from ditamap to customize the pdf. You can create custom dita ot plugins that build on the default dita to pdf transformation. My document consists of many tables which can be short or multiple pages long. The dita open toolkit and pdf plugins are highly configurable and customizable, which means that the your published outputs fit your organizations requirements exactly. There are other useful opensource plugins that can be installed in the dita open toolkit and provide various publishing or reporting capabilities. About dita darwin information typing architecture dita darwin information typing architecture is an xmlbased, endtoend architecture for authoring, producing, and deli vering information often called content as discrete, typed topics. Adena frazer understand the toolkit architecture, how to run the toolkit to generate different outputs, how to customize processing using ant, how to filter output using ditaval.
I tried to put together below a set of frequently asked questions and useful links about the dita open toolkit. White about dita for print, 2nd edition not too long ago the second edition of the popular dita for print was published by xml press. Properties specific to the dita open toolkit that you may override. You can create custom ditaot plugins that build on the default dita to pdf transformation. Edit the various spacings regarding paragraphs in your custom pdf output. Customize dita templates for pdf output adobe framemaker. Fico will soon be upgrading from livecontent architect 11. Since it has a pluginbased architecture, it can be extended with extra plugins that either define new formats for conversion or customize an existing conversion format. What i would like to do is to prevent tables from breaking to multiple pages if possible. Pdf5ml is an open source plugin developed by antenna house to produce pdfs with ah xsl formatter. This fourlesson course describes how to use the dita open toolkit to generate output from your dita sources.
The commandline tool supports a subset of the parameters that are available to the ant builds. We will look at how to create the output templates for pdf and html5 outputs using the framemaker interface. I use a separate ant build file to wrap the dita ot build steps as you also seem to do you could run a custom xslt from ant to read the ditamap file and produce something that had the filename in it, then after running dita ot, use the output from the transform to. Using xml documentation addon for adobe experience manager 6. The appearance of the output pdf is controlled by a miramo format definitions mfd template. The default attributeset is displayed below, as well as a screenshot of the default styling. Sign in sign up instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
The 3day version will cover only pdf or html output. Dita open toolkit dita ot is an opensource publishing engine for xml content authored in the darwin information typing architecture. About xml documentation addon for adobe experience manager 3 currently, the builtin editor supports the following dita standards. How to automatically create pdf forms from dita content. Dita ot plugin, some of which have implications for upgrading existing mfd template files. With xml addon, enterprises can deliver seamless and personalized experiences to end users and ensure consistency and uniformity in pre and postsales content.
Bestinclass multichannel publishing of dita content streamline enterprise content publishing with a seamless, onetouch approach that accelerates time to market. For pdf output, dita ot generates xsl formatting objects from dita content. Using xml documentation addon for adobe experience. Regardless of how you publish content, whether using integrated publishing or via the dita. Ive been using the save ditamap as book 2017 with framemaker components wo. For earlier versions of the dita ot, the steps might be slightly different, especially with respect to the language variables files.
If the integrator is not visible, select the show all scenarios option that is available in the settings dropdown menu. Easier to use easier to maintain more powerful easier to change and modify simple enough for nontechnical authors to utilize fewer steps. Although my pdf output looked pretty, i knew i hadnt followed best practices and had no doubt created something that was difficult to. For example, you can produce an html help file, a pdf file, and html files all from a single source. Plugins can customize covers and page layouts, modify formatting, override logic of the default pdf plugin, and much more.
The commandline tool is a wrapper around the ant interface. The images are not scaling to fit the page, but instead are running huge and being cut off by the page. Customized transforms are integrated into ditatoo dita cms or into your own publishing process. Easily extend and customize the default functionality, integrate dita. When a dita map is transformed to pdf using an fo processor and it contains some unicode characters that cannot be rendered by the default pdf fonts, a font that is capable of rendering these characters must be configured and embedded in the pdf result. Using css to style the pdf output oxygen xml editor. When publishing, ditatoo applies these stylesheets, and they override the default dita ot s stylesheets. When dita open toolkit plugins transform dita topics into output, they must occasionally insert additional text. Overview of the dita open toolkit beginner level part 22. Once youve created a plugin, you copy, modify, and add our code into the customization files customxsl. The dita open toolkit is a publishing tool used to convert dita content into various output formats. Configuring the dita ot in easydita and setting up your publishing scenario is straightforward. Pdf customization approaches various methods may be used to customize the pdf output that dita open toolkit produces.
Customizing the output using a dita ot customization folder you can add to ditatoo dita cms customization folders that contain your custom xsl stylesheets. Some transformation types generate a single output file like pdf, chm, odf. I tried all that i can in master page view, but couldnt ignore it. Tridion docs no longer supports the old version of the dita ot that we run our pdf output through version 1. Set a font for pdf output generated with fo processor. Pdf output the recommended way to generate a pdf for dita files is through the save as pdf option in framemaker.
However, to generate pdfs using the dita open toolkit. We then switched to antenna house formatter which offered greater scope and flexibility to customize the pdf output. If you use the save as pdf feature to create a pdf output of a map, in the save document dialog, you can choose the option prompt for ditaval file. Hopefully, however, you now have enough information to evaluate whether you have a good use case for automatically creating pdf forms from dita content, and how you need to create that dita content to ensure youre able to transform it to pdf. For example, chapter titles in english often contain the word chapter, admonitions usually need the labels note or warning, and page footers might contain a. I am trying to style pdf output from dita using the native frame templaterendering engines i. This white paper addresses some of the issues scr iptor ium has encountered while generating localized output from the dita ot and how we solved them. You need to get the default paragraph styling so that you can modify it.
As the number of custom plugins in the new registry increases, you may find something there thats close to what you need, or at least a solid basis for your own customizations. Oct 15, 2019 adobe framemaker 2019 release makes a definite attempt to bridge this gap and empowers writers to create and manage dita output templates without having to know about xslt or ditaot parameters. Dita ot and dita ot pdf2 plugin overview oxygenxmlcom. Lots more people are comfortable with css use css both for xhtml and pdf styling css is much easier to learn than xslfo majority of users do not need completely different styling for the web or print outputs consistent editingpublishing solution. The dita open toolkit is an open source publishing engine that can publish dita content to various output sources such as xhtml, pdf, or windows help chm. This means that the structured application formatting rules applied to the topic or map are output to the pdf. These properties can be divided into three categories. Example of pdf output customization with a custom transformation type. In addition, you can use the dita open toolkit with framemaker to obtain deliverable outputs. While she is a colleague of mine at ixiasoft, she lives and. Now user guides can be delivered in many different ways such as web, html help, pdf, etc. Eventually, by reverse engineering the plugin that i got out of this dita ot pdf plugin generator, i was able to create the customization that i wanted.
Instead, it is built on a combination of our dita to html processor and a fast pdf publishing engine that uses css cascading style sheets. Like dita ot, the dita ot pdf plugin is implemented in java, ant, and xslt. Since i was the only one in the team who knew xslt and wasnt getting a panic attack immediately after looking at the bunch of dita ot s stylesheets, the entire customization part fell on my shoulders. If the dita open toolkit is properly installed, you should see a file named build. The dita open toolkit dita ot provides a commandline tool for users with little knowledge of ant. So if youve struggled to customize the toolkits output in the past, you may want to give it another try. Reference list of dita ot specific argument properties. Localization and the dita open toolkit scriptorium. Idxml indesign xml is a dita open toolkit plugin enabling dita content to be mapped to an arbitrary xml structure and intelligently imported into indesign.
Obtain various forms of output through builtin dita ot support, including trendy webhelp formats and stylish pdf. Dita ot processes your documentation project as an ant project, which allows several ant build properties specific to dita ot and your project. Configuring pdf output from dita with an intuitive user. Dita ot has an extensible plugin mechanism that allows you to add your own transformations and customize the default output. We re doing xslt customization for various outputs, including pdf and online help, that let you get a layout of virtually any complexity. To create a pdf output of a dita topic, choose file save as pdf. Greetings, several committers and contributors are now working on release 1.
You can define any custom publishing processes by copying, renaming, and modifying the build. Easily apply dita templates and access ditafm output controls from the pdf publishing panel. To change the default directory, see use a different ditaot package. To provide an example of how the effect of the updates we have prepared two pdf files generated using dita ot 1. Example custom ant script if the dita open toolkit is properly installed, you should see a file named build.
Numbered headings in pdf output numberedheadingscustom. For pdf output, ditaot generates xsl formatting objects from dita content. Lightweight dita is still under the proposal state, and has not yet become a dita standard. The strings plugin is also integrated with any html outputs that are available in the same ditaot. About feedback developed by jarno elovirta feedback developed by jarno elovirta. Defines the directory where dita ot will create a temporary directory to place temporary files generated during the transformation process. Content management system cms task management project portfolio management time tracking pdf. The dita ot bundled with oxygen contains more plugins than the standard dita ot that can be downloaded from the dita ot official web site. Dita for software documentation cssbased pdf publishing advantages. About generic pdf output default styling is ok uses opensource fop xslfo engine out of the box can use commercial fo engines antenna house formatter or renderx xep most companies customize the pdf output to reflect their styles and branding adobe dita world 201631 32.
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