Refer to my dita quick start presentation for the 2007 stc india conference to learn to evaluate, plan and start implementing dita. The purposes for which it provides links include defining the content and organization of publication structures dita maps, topictotopic navigation links and cross references, and reuse of content by reference. All rights reserve dita linking strategies chunking merge topics. Apr 06, 2007 i am having trouble maintaining my hyperlinks when i merge pdf s. For example, if you include your company logo in a source document, you can define a link for the logo so that when users click the logo, they link to your company home page. With it, you will be able to combine pdf files to form a single document carrying all the information. Syncro soft announces the release of a new collaboration. Dont display shortdesc for pdf links oxygen xml forum. Provides dita open toolkit dita ot plugins and supporting components for producing printprimary output from dita based content.
Pdf output typically ignores hierarchical links such as those with roles of. When i merge two different pdf s with the indices of hyperlinks, only the links in the first pdf the first bookmark appear correctly. Dita primer learn the dita basics these topics introduce many dita elements and provide basic examples of them in context. Jul 03, 2014 this video walks you through the process of taking your mpower data and merging it into an editableinteractive pdf file. It is the best pdf merge software as it is free and open source. The area element in an image map does not specify a link target. Swordfish includes a super fast internal database server and integrated support for remotetm web server. The dita merge demo plugin for the oxygen tool was used to provide the interactive merge features. This is strange, however, because links werent broken. Html, pdf, help from the dita open toolkit use shortdesc elements, see kristen eberleins art of the short description. Page content generated from dita source latest change.
Reuse the same content profiled in various ways in the same publication branch filtering. With its custom rules, dita merge allows you to consistently automate the most laborious document merging. You dont have to actually create a relationship table at all with this method. Dita language reference overview the design of the darwin information typing architecture dita is based on deriving multiple information types, or infotypes, from a common, generic topic. Improved quality as dita enables information developers to work specifically on content, this reduces. The dita ot pdf plugin generator is developed as a spare time project by jarno elovirta and is available for use free of charge. Current working folder for the mmcomposer process sometimes useful for resolving. The dita element lets you create any sequence of concept, task, and reference topics, and the ditabase dtd lets you further nest these topic types inside each other. This will appear when generating pdf or odt output that includes a link to a local.
Actual behavior i tried using both the sample markdown dita. Dita configuration and specialization tutorials this information set provides a set of tutorials on dita 1. When youre finished arranging, click combine files. These tutorials are excerpted from the upcoming book dita for practitioners, to be published by xml press in 2011.
Before you convert your existing content to dita, consider these five tips, which encompass both bigpicture and codingspecific issues. Ref 3359 in responsive html5 output, incorrect image caption and extralarge border around images is found. The darwin information typing architecture dita specification defines both a a set of document types for authoring and organizing topicoriented information. Expected behavior i was trying to merge cells horizontally across columns in a table in markdown dita or mdita. Perfect pdf combine is a fast and userfriendly application for combining merging and breaking splitting, viewing and printing pdf documents across platforms and devices. Dita specialization questions 2 business justification for a semiconductor industryspecific dita specialization effort dita separates format from content. You may publish documentation for multiple products from the same dita content. Related links to nondita resources in pdf output oxygen.
All dita links use the same addressing facilities, either uribased addresses or dita specific indirect addresses using keys and key references. Merge excel data into pdf form solutions experts exchange. A topic should have as few links as possible defined directly within. Ref 3320 the related information links are missing when dita content is published as responsive html5. You can also use third party database engines like oracle 10g or mysql 5. However, if two links to the same resource use different attributes or link text, it is possible for them to appear together. This second edition covers the dita open toolkit, version 2, including customizing the dita 1. Split pdf files into individual pages, delete or rotate pages, easily merge pdf files together or edit and modify pdf files. All of the topics in this group will link to each other via related links at the bottom just like with relationship tables.
For example, if the same link shows up with rolenext and again with no specified role, it may show up as both the next topic link and as a related link. In almost all cases, you want to link these groups of files to each other. Extensive use of these features results in a loss of portability. Almost everyvody using related links uses a relationship table to manage them. The dita open toolkit includes support for pdf output via xslfo. Before you download your trial, we just need a few details first. As users of technical information in a manual, in embedded help or on the web, we use links all the time. Dita fmx does not work well with framemaker xml author. Dont know if that approach is appropriate here but it does fix the issue. Reuse topic with variable content depending on context keyscopes. After a topic is processed into its final output form, the related links are usually displayed at the end of the topic, although some webbased help systems might display them in a separate navigation frame. Pdf merge combinejoin pdf files online for free soda pdf. Dec 18, 2019 plugin which uses the dita open toolkit topicmergemodule to produce a merged output file from the entire dita map structure without further processing.
Pdfsam delivers very rich features at your disposal when you need to merge pdf files. The dita style guide best practices for authors c content. Focus is on the use of xsl formatting objects xslfo to produce pdf using any conforming xslfo engine. You can read more about autogenerated links in the dita style guide.
Click add files and select the files you want to include in your pdf. With its custom rules, dita merge allows you to consistently automate the most laborious document merging tasks. Dita merge analyses the structure of your dita documents so it can reliably identify all of the differences between them. A look at using incontent versus related links in dita documentation, examining. Dita maps automatically generate links, including the navigation hierarchy and links between topics. The package also includes a stylesheet for merging all the documents referenced by a map into a single dita file. Dita hierarchical links, related links, short descriptions, and onefolder organization. In these difficult and challenging times around the world for everyone we would like to reassure you that we are open and here to help you. You can merge pdfs or a mix of pdf documents and other files. This target element may be found in the same xml file as the link element or, on the contrary, in a different xml file. All rights reserve dita linking strategies topiclevel link categories direct links indirect links keyref links to internal resources other topics links to external resources web resources links inside topic content related links placed at the end of topic content manual links autogenerated links.
Click, drag, and drop to reorder files or press delete to remove any content you dont want. There are projects where related links, chunking and collectiontype are not used at all. Here are some benefits of using relationship tables. Publishing responsive html5 with css merge option turned on takes longer time to publish. After a topic is processed into its final output form, the related links are usually. Oasis darwin information typing architecture dita language. The dita element provides a toplevel container for multiple topics when you create documents using the ditabase dtd. The dita file extension is used for output files generated by the darwin information typing architecture also known as dita an xmlbased architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information, written for java platform. Add related terms category for related links to glossentries issue. 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. Powered by atlassian confluence and scroll viewport. Hi heather, you have probably set the parameter args. We should build the ditaot as a pipeline each step makes one type of change to the dita, and the output is also dita output from each step is the input to the next step this makes it easier to reason about the correctness. Linking enables you to direct your readers to related, supplementary information in topics or.
Merging dita files in the oxygen authoring tool deltaxml. The xhtml output does not contain the related link to the child. The fm 2017 welcome screen has no api, so the ditarelated links and buttons will not work when ditafmx is installed. From the structure of the survey questions itread more. In this post, i explain parentchild page links, content reuse when the content exists in different elements, a onefolderforallfiles organization, and a. You may want to combine inline links with relationship tables or map links. Syncro soft, the developer of the oxygen xml suite of products, is excited to announce the release of a new webbased collaboration product called oxygen content fusion, as well as the immediate availability of version 20. If set to nofamily, only the link to the parent topic is displayed, apart from the links generated from the relationship table. However, for links to nondita resources such as web sites or pdf documents, you should define the link text. The dita community pdf flagging plugin provides an override that fixes this. When adobe provides an api to these items, well hook it up. Dita hierarchical links, related links, short descriptions.
Soda pdf merge tool allows you to combine two or more documents into a single pdf file for free. This language reference describes the elements that comprise the topic dtd and its initial, infotyped descendents. Jul 27, 2010 overview of pdf processing pdf processing in the toolkit is more complicated you need at least one more step convert dita to an intermediate format that is straightforward to convert to pdf in theory, it didnt have to be so complicated, since you can generate pdfs from html and css in practice, css used to be less. When you publish to pdf, local links often reference a page number. The pdf target also specifies that related links should be generated in the. The reason is removebroken links parameter was set true. Maintain links after merging pdfs learn adobe acrobat. This makes it easier to reuse the topic in various contexts and keeps it as separate as possible for other parts of the dita project, decreasing the possibility of broken links. After a topic is processed into it final output form, the related links are usually displayed at the end of the topic, although some webbased help systems might display them in a separate navigation frame. Nov 02, 2012 the folks at ditatoo have been running a survey asking people how they convert their legacy content over to dita. Nov 22, 2019 you can create image links that allow users who click the image to link to content in another location. Gone through articles and presentations on the web and got a halfbaked understanding of the darwin information typing architecture dita.
The advantages of the open toolkit are automation and licensing cost. When the relationship table defines links between a topic and others. How to merge pdfs and combine pdf files adobe acrobat dc. An ant build or plugin is directly calling the toolkits topic merge module, and is. The related information links of a topic element are stored in a special. Deltaxml dita merge takes two or more dita files and merges changes that have been made, relative to their common ancestor, into a single dita file. Publishing smarter dita primer learn the dita basics. The dita ot is able to remove duplicate links in most cases.
Originally presented by radu coravu at the dita north america 2017 conference. The fm 2017 welcome screen has no api, so the dita related links and buttons will not work when dita fmx is installed. Five tips for converting content to dita scriptorium. I create indices in word first, and then i create hyperlinks to my attachments after i have converted the index to a pdf in acrobat. Ditafmx does not work well with framemaker xml author.
Before looking at the plugin capabilities id like to first take a look at the vanilla oxygen editors own excellent trackchanges capability, to see what this gives us. There does not seem to be a parameter to control the inclusion of the short description along with the link. Related links are links that provide additional information about your topic. Issues that relate to using dita fmx with framemaker xml author fm 12 and 2015. Sep 29, 2014 my application form is already a pdf document but need to create a mail merge using data from excel and merge into the pdf document. The later case is still considered to be an internal link because both the link and its target belong to the same overall dita document.
Structure of the relatedlinks section oxygen xml editor. The related information links of a topic relatedlinks element are stored in a special section following the body of the topic. For example, work only needs to be done once to update some specific formatting requirement without spending time manually. Issues that relate to using ditafmx with framemaker xml author fm 12 and 2015. Ditarelated software tools this is a list of the other tools that are not ditaoptimized xml editors, or ditacapable component content management systems ccmses. A free and open source application, a powerful visual tool or a professional pdf editor, join thousands of happy users, we have the solution you are looking for. The dita package includes xslt stylesheets that enable you, with a single command, to transform all the documents referenced by a map to html and build a table of contents that links to all of them. Provides dita open toolkit ditaot plugins and supporting components for producing printprimary output from ditabased content.
When you load the source and target documents into this tool, the differences are shown by coloring, and you can edit and move changes in both source and target files. The related information links of a topic relatedlinks element are stored in a special. And i think this is not because the projects are not complex, but because the main output delivery format for those projects is pdf. The target for a coderef element, which specifies an external textbased file. In addition, you can use the dita open toolkit with framemaker to obtain deliverable outputs. Leigh whites book, dita for print, has become the goto reference for building a print customization plugin for the dita open toolkit. I am having trouble maintaining my hyperlinks when i merge pdf s. When linking to dita elements with a title, the link will use the title as link text. Usually related links point to web resources rather than other links within your dita. Current processing tries to determine a link text based on the dita target. Now go to the plugins menu and select start under the combine plugin. The transformation scenario is modified cssbased dita map pdf. Dec 05, 2017 a look at using incontent versus related links in dita documentation, examining the benefits and issues of each strategy.
The paths are left alone because this is foreign stuff and the merge doesnt touch foreign stuff. Dita semiconductor industry specialization business case. This removes the laborintensive necessity for manual coding and testing of links. The result also depends on how you set the parameter for related links in the publishing scenario or build script. The related information links of a topic related links element are stored in a special section following the body of the topic. Also, you may want to have links point to various targets depending on the product for which you want to publish the documentation. Understanding the table of contents and merge settings. By default, the output created through the open toolkit is ugly, and customizing the xslfo code is a daunting task. Note that links generated from a in a dita map will have the role attribute set to friend. The preliminary results are interesting if not terribly surprising.
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