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The Origins of DITA

News: Submitted by carolgeyer on Thu, 2007-04-05 19:18. Last updated on Thu, 2007-04-05 19:20.

by Russell Kay, Computerworld

DITA Specialization Tutorial: Beta 1

News: Submitted by robincover on Wed, 2007-04-04 13:47. Last updated on Wed, 2007-04-04 14:05.

Eliot Kimber reports [1]:

I've gotten my DITA specialization tutorial far enough along that I
thought I could publish it safely. The tutorial is now available in HTML
and as a downloadable package (including all the source content and
whatnot) here: http://www.xiruss.org/tutorials/dita-specialization/

I always welcome comments and corrections but since this is still a work
in progress, I really want constructive feedback that will help me make
the tutorial better.

Bob Doyle

Amber Swope on Bookmaps

Blog entry: Submitted by Bob Doyle on Wed, 2007-04-04 02:41. Last updated on Thu, 2007-04-12 17:04.

Amber Swope, formerly of IBM Rational Software and now Principal Consultant at Justsystems for XMetaL, addressed a dinner meeting of the Boston DITA Users Group Tuesday evening at JoAnn Hackos' Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2007 Conference.

Tips for debugging PDF2 plugin PDF issues

Book page: Submitted by jelovirt on Tue, 2007-04-03 18:06. Last updated on Sat, 2012-06-16 10:08.

Note: this page is out-of-date, see http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/latest/ for current documentation.

Keeping the generated FO file
One of the most important things to do to debug the PDF generated by the PDF2 plugin (also known as the Idiom PDF plugin) is to look at the FO file the plugin generates. The plugin, by default, deletes all intermediate files, though, so you need to modify the plugin to save those files.

To stop the plugin from deleting the FO file: