For more information, see developing a dita ot plugin. Customizing pdf output dita open toolkit documentation. Dita open toolkit dita ot customization we re doing xslt customization for various outputs, including pdf and online help, that let you get a layout of virtually any complexity. Run dita install to install the plugin and make the printpdf transformation available. Possibilities to obtain pdf from dita oxygen xml blog. Before moving on to presentation customizations, its important to understand the rendering process of a pdf document when publishing it from sdl docs. Advanced generation option which will make further developing the generated plugin easier. Generating documents with ant how to generate documents from the command line with ant. From the xsl formatter dropdown menu, select a pdf rendering engine. 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. Generating a ditaot pdf plugin easydita documentation. Customized transforms are integrated into ditatoo dita cms or into your own publishing process.
The dita open toolkit includes support for pdf output via xslfo. Using css to style the pdf output oxygen xml editor. Changing stylesheets is easy as pie with ditaot and pdf5. The xslt import extension points are used to override various steps of xslt processing. In sdl docs, content is authored in dita darwin information typing architecture. Creates a single file containing the resolved, or merged dita map with all its topics 2.
Cssbased dita to pdf customization oxygen xml editor. The pdf formatter ahf is only required because the available pdf formatter in the dita ot is very poor in features it does not satisfy modern documentations needs. Using css to style the pdf output presented by radu. Easily apply dita templates and access ditafm output controls from the pdf publishing panel. Publishing smarter dita primer learn the dita basics. Apply css styles and obtain the pdf output using either antenna house, prince xml or oxygen chemistry. My build is getting successfully, but my plugin is not running. My question was rather if the same can be achieved in oxygen with a relatively simple revision in the dita ot xsltetc. The dita users group is dedicated to supporting users of the darwin information typing architecture dita. From the dita ot version dropdown menu, select one of the available dita ot publishing engines. Dita maps or single topics to pdf, while styling the resulting output using css. I tried to create xsl files similar to the faq example, but it does not work. Because the structure of the ot has changed significantly, this will not be an easy task. The pdf generator includes a dita to html processor and a fast pdf publishing engine that uses cascading style sheets css to style the pdf output.
How to use content from ditamap to customize the pdf output. Using css to style the pdf output presented by radu coravu at dita ot day 2017. Creating a simple dita open toolkit plugin to customize published html and pdf content using git clientside hooks to run dita publishing pipelines this topic describes how to use git clientside hooks to execute dita commands and publishing workflows, with an emphasis on using the oxygens git client. The fo xsl folder houses custom stylesheet files that override the default. Example of pdf output customization with a custom transformation type. For example, you may want to add a new plugin to the dita open toolkit to integrate a new transformation scenario or to add open source plugins such as the dita for. Lately while attending tekom 2015 and dita ot day 2015 i happened to. Dita open toolkit dita ot is an opensource publishing engine for xml content authored in the darwin information typing architecture. It was created as a more robust alternative to the demo pdf transformation in the original toolkit, and thus was known as pdf2. Ditaot pdf plugin customization reference easydita. The default attributeset is displayed below, as well as a screenshot of the default styling. The advantages of the open toolkit are automation and licensing cost.
Similarly, in addition to using a custom css for an html output, you might want to use a custom xsl stylesheet that overrides default dita ot s stylesheets. The foxsl folder houses custom stylesheet files that override the default. This course enables you to see the final results of what you have learned in the preceding courses. Go to options preferences xml xml catalog, click add and select the file located at oxygen install directory\ frameworks\ dita \ dita ot \plugins\org. Creating a simple dita open toolkit plugin to customize.
Oxygen xml editor comes bundled with a ditaot cssbased pdf publishing. Using xslt to create dita to xml output multiple same element comes under child element to a parent element. Customizing frame output from dita adobe support community. You can open a dita topic which has a table inside it and select in the outline view the table row. Using css to produce pdf from dita content is way easier than writing plugins and customizing xslt stylesheet and will probably become in the future the most. Ive been using the save ditamap as book 2017 with framemaker components wo. Pdf5ml can define styles and variables by languages. 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. This fourlesson course describes how to use the dita open toolkit to generate output from your dita sources. Sign in sign up instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Create additional xslt stylesheets to customize all other desired output types. How to automatically create pdf forms from dita content. By default, the output created through the open toolkit is ugly, and customizing the xslfo code is a daunting task.
The following ant build script generates chm and pdf output for the sample dita maps. Dita to pdf output can be customized either by creating a pdf customization folder in this case, the dita ot folder will not be modified at all or by creating a pdf customization plugin. Customizing pdf output using css create a publishing template, create the customization css file inside the template folder, and link it to the publishing. Install the dita ot the dita ot dita open toolkit is a opensource set ot stylesheets and build files in order to create different output formats from dita sources.
Dita is an xml content authoring standard owned and developed by oasis. In certain cases, it is possible to override stylesheet processing to customize the output. Dita is a modular, topicoriented xml architecture that is designed for creating and managing documents, with content reuse built directly into the authoring process. It is an important component of the dita solution since it supports. You can leverage the fully configurable output to deliver highly personalized, relevant, and immersive content experiences for end users. Using the selected target option a user can customize using the selected target option. It is based on the idea of building information types for specific representation of structured content from a common initial topic. In the final stage of processing, the dita open toolkit runs xslt stylesheet transforms using either saxon or xalan to produce output files. To create a new transformation scenario that uses the dita open toolkit, you create a plugin that contains a new transtype and the customization for the dita ot transformation. Note that customisation features available are dependent on the target ditaot and xsl formatter. Mar 29, 2016 but when i generated the pdf, the default template dita ot plugin is used.
Using css to produce pdf from dita content is way easier than writing plugins and customizing xslt stylesheet and will probably. What i would like to do is to prevent tables from breaking to multiple pages if possible. Specify styles for all output types or a single output. My document consists of many tables which can be short or multiple pages long. 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. Dita ot is the only publication tool capable of producing both pdf and eclipsebased documentation from the.
Use the free oasis dita ot plugin to carry out ditavalbased filtering while publishing. Learn how to run dita ot to generate published output documents. The following figure shows the xslt stylesheet for the note element. This procedure uses examples for unordered lists, however, you can do the same thing for ordered lists. The dita open toolkit does not come with default support for using css to create pdf. Customize dita templates for pdf output in framemaker 2019. Again when i save it as pdf, all the individual topicconcepts are created in a separate page. With the native dita support added to experience manager, generate output for experience manager sites, pdf, html5, epubs, or custom output through dita ot. Create in the same folder an xslt stylesheet named pagebreak. Customizing pdf output using css oxygen xml editor. Numbered heading s i n pdf output numberedheadings custom. A brief introduction to xsl for processing dita content. Oxygen xml editor comes bundled with a dita ot css based pdf publishing. 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.
Generating a pdf plugin by using the dita ot pdf plugin generator is much easier than developing one from scratch. Based on this experience ive put together some steps to help anyone wanting to create an xslt customization plugin for the dita open toolkit for html and pdf based outputs. For pdf output, dita ot generates xsl formatting objects from dita content. For more complex customizations, you can create custom dita ot plugins. This article first focuses on the basics of understanding xsl and then turns to a couple of examples of xsl within the dita ot, specifically for transforming dita. Edit the various spacings regarding paragraphs in your custom pdf output. To debug a dita pdf transformation scenario using the xslt debugger follow these steps. 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. Using xml documentation addon for adobe experience. If needed, you can extend the generated plugin with some custom development work.
Build output with the new transformation type to verify that the plugin works as intended. The dita ot is a collection of java files, scripts, build files, and some other stuff, but its heart is the xsl code used to transform your dita content. The dita to pdf output can be customized either by creating a pdf customization folder in this case the dita ot folder will not be modified at all or by creating a pdf customization plugin. The pdf or pdf2 transformation generates pdf output this transformation was originally created as a plugin and maintained outside of the main toolkit code. For information about customizing dita to pdf output, see xsl fobased dita to pdf customization. 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. Arbortext styler allows you to create a single source of style by supporting multiple output types in a single stylesheet. The stylesheet instructions can be customized by adding another stylesheet to the customization folder. Markdown along with markdown input, ditaot now provides new output formats to convert dita content to the original markdown syntax, githubflavored markdown, and gitbook. I have created a plugin and trying to generate my output as a pdf. Dita refers to the darwin information typing architecture. Ok i tried on a new fedora 23 system up to date i took the package dita ot 2.
Dita pdf publishing force page breaks between two block. 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. You need to get the default paragraph styling so that you can modify it. We will demonstrate how dita open toolkit and pdf5ml works together by modifying sample stylesheets and running it through antenna house formatter the oven to produce the final document. Due to the increasing popularity of using css as the customization layer for the dita to pdf transformation, oxygen provides a dita ot plugin. To print the file names of the graphics underneath figures, set args. Create a folder for your plugin in the dita ot plugins folder. Nov 05, 2017 it has a transtype called print pdf and a com. Your documentation suite includes both microsoft html help and pdf based documents.
The xslt style sheets that are used to generate html and other forms of output with the dita open toolkit, as well as the other files that control the format of output, such as cascading style sheets. Dita to pdf output still requires quite a lot of xslt skills in order to customize. For this, the extension attribute indicates the step that the override applies to. For dita, antenna house xsl formatter is the most powerful xslfo software for document formatting on the market. The plugin installer will add an xsl import statement to the default code.
Customize dita output with enhanced toolkit support adobe inc. You need to get the default list styling so that you can modify it. Dita is an emerging specification that provides a costeffective way to create, publish, reuse, and exchange structured information. Dita ot pdf customization table with alternate row. While the dita standard is owned and developed by oasis, the dita ot project is governed separately. You can adjust various aspects of pdf output by changing parameter settings. How to use content from ditamap to customize the pdf. In this example, to customize the pdf output it is necessary to create an xslt stylesheet called pdfmedia. 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. Customizing pdf outputfrom the dita open toolkit leigh white elementalsource, llc 2. The future goal is to allow accessing any uri addressable resource, as long as core dita ot code or extension code can turn an uri into an input stream. Stylesheets are used by arbortext publishing engine to transform xml content to html and web pages, print or pdf, html help, microsoft word and wireless devices. This article first focuses on the basics of understanding xsl and then turns to a couple of examples of xsl within the dita ot, specifically for transforming dita content.
While smaller graphics are typically rendered without problems, large images may extend beyond the page dimensions, throw errors in the log file or not appear at all. The dita ot generates output for the specified dita content. Pdf pdf output is generated from xsl formatting objects xslfo via an opensource formatter apache fop or commercial tools such as antenna house formatter or renderx xep. Im trying to print few characters in simplified chinese zhcn into a pdf. When generating pdf output via the dita open toolkit, users often stumble over image scaling issues. I am trying to style pdf output from dita using the native frame templaterendering engines i. Using xml documentation addon for adobe experience manager 6.
Numbered bookmarks in pdf output from dita bookmaps with and. How do we generate the pdf using modified templates of fm i used save dita map as fm components option to generate the bookfile. Based on this forum thread i will try to give some steps in which you can create your own dita open toolkit pdf customization folder for customizing a table to have alternate row background colors first of all you need to know the xslt template that you need to override. Change directories to where the dita ot is installed on your machine. Note that customisation features available are dependent on the target dita ot and xsl formatter. With formatter, you are able to turn dita content into highquality pdf output. Edit the various spacings regarding lists and list items in your custom pdf output. In order to support this, the preprocessing would need to have a system for.
Arbortext styler stylesheet design tool singlesourcing. For example, if your project includes a significant amount of topics for example, a few thousands, you might have to allocate additional memory to allow java to accomplish the publishing. In addition to css, the pdf generator enables you to use extensible stylesheet language transformations xslt for advanced styling. If you want to customize the way dita ot generates your documents, you will need to open the. In the plugins directory, create a directory named com. Instead of typing the dita ot parameters at the command prompt, you might want to create an ant build script that contains all of the parameters. From the dita ot shell, enter the following command. For more complex customizations, you can create custom ditaot plugins. Tridion docs no longer supports the old version of the dita ot that we run our pdf output through version 1. 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. Oct 10, 2018 i have years of experience with dita but structuredunstructured framemaker is new to me. Feel free to change different stylesheet properties and see how powerful, yet simple it is to customize pdf output from dita. 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 do the rename.
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