DITA Open Toolkit Workshop: Vancouver
Making it Work for You

April 21-23, 2009
Vancouver

Conducted by Aliza Merzel, an experienced consultant who’s slogged through the trenches on real projects, this three-day workshop is intensive, technical, and useful with plenty of hands-on exercises. It is geared for those who are familiar with DITA and need to go the next step to publish their DITA content into production-ready high-quality PDF or online Help using their own look and feel and meeting their own publishing and localization requirements.

Offered by Suite Solutions (http://www.suite-sol.com) & Intentional Design (http://www.intentionaldesign.ca/)

Please note the technical prerequisite: participants should already be familiar with DITA and XML.

Syllabus

Day 1: Nuts and Bolts of the DITA Open Toolkit
*        Overview of the DITA-OT and its Components
*        Rendering Outputs in Different Formats with the DITA-OT
*        Filtering Output Using DITAVAL
*        Common Errors and Mistakes
*        Where to Go for Support: Online Resources

Day 2: Understanding and Configuring the FO Plug-in for Generating PDFs
*        Getting Started with XSL, XSL-FO and XPath
*        Introduction to the FO Plug-in
*        Customizing the FO Plug-in
*        Customization Case Studies
*        Customizing for Localization
*        Rendering PDFs with Antenna House, RenderX and XPP
*        Configuration Issues and Debugging Tips

Day 3: Understanding and Configuring the DITA-OT for Publishing HTML formats
*        Overview of HTML Formats: Web, HTML Help, JavaHelp, Eclipse Help
*        Overview of Transtypes and Files Generated for Each Format
*        Customizing Style Sheets: XSLT and CSS
*        Case Studies and Samples
*        Overview: Publishing via FrameMaker DITA-FMx, WebWorks, RoboHelp

Cost
$1,200 per student. This fee includes three days of instruction, a detailed course-guide/workbook to bring home, and daily lunches.

**The class will be kept small to allow plenty of interaction with the instructor, so register today to reserve your place.

To register:
mailto:solutions@suite-sol.com