Archive - 2007

DITA Specialization Tutorial: Beta 1

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.

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Bob Doyle

Amber Swope on Bookmaps

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.

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Tips for debugging PDF2 plugin PDF issues

Note: this page is out-of-date, see http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/latest/ for current documentation.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

 

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DocZone.com® Supports Educational Research

DocZone hosted XML solution to be used for research that will benefit
the One Laptop Per Child project, among others

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Single-sourcing with DITA (at Philips Ultrasound)

At Philips Ultrasound, we deal with a number of driving forces. First and foremost for us are the regulatory and legal requirements of the medical device field. Part of that are the language requirements for various countries. Finally, we are dealing not just with a software environment but a complex scenario involving software development, interoperability, hardware manufacturing, and service operations.

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