Topleaf is a professional dita and xml publishing system from turnkey systems. Make xmetal recognize a document type as being dita. The folks at ditatoo have been running a survey asking people how they convert their legacy content over to dita. Working with the dita open toolkit, this solution provides powerful design and output. Seems everyones adding a dita authoring tool to their content management systems these days. If you need to set up dita specializations for your end users, or if you want to enable features that are otherwise disabled for limited users you must set the following variable in the xmetal author configuration file xmetal.
Want to deliver content through multiple channels, including chatbots, customer portals, and traditional. Provides dita open toolkit dita ot plugins and supporting components for producing printprimary output from dita based content. The preliminary results are interesting if not terribly surprising. Key spaces that you have associated with individual dita topics can be remembered across sessions via a setting in the options dialog. Topleaf stylesheet development tools make it easy to create and maintain stylesheets for dita content. Dita is a way of writing and storing your content so you can manage it like an asset. Justsystems and turnkey systems are proud to offer the xmetal topleaf plugin. You dont have to memorize dita markup rules or constantly think about its details. Highlighting changes in pdf with xmetal and topleaf dropping content isnt a.
Xmetal clearly has it in for framemaker, and the renderx fo engine that comes bundled with the enterprise edition lets. The user guide dita sources are available on github. This presents justsystems and its partners a unique and significant opportunity to provide expertise, solutions. Nov 01, 2008 introduction to dita and xmetal simon bate scriptorium publishing services. Below, you can find the manuals for oxygen xml products in pdf and html format. Oxygen xml editor is a cross platform tool setting the standard in xml editing. Xmetal is designed for dita xmetal is designed to make correct dita markup automatically. The darwin information typing architecture dita specification defines both a a set of document types for authoring and organizing topicoriented information.
Insert an image from a remote location into a topic in the xmetal editor 104. Bob doyle, an active member of the boston dita users group, also has a helpful article in the e content magazine column, i column like i cm. White papers looking for insight into the latest xml content creation strategies and technology trends. Comparing dita support in xmetal and framemaker slideshare. The latest one for today at least comes with the release of v5. Dita creator 19004a sunglasses black visiondirect australia. As you can see theres plenty of videos on all sorts of ditarelated topics out there, ranging from how to use dita in various editors including framemaker, oxygen and xmetal, tutorials on dita, a few ditabased cmsesread more. This product features a black frame and grey lenses. Xmetal highlights ability to edit xml directly integration with dita open toolkit not wysiwyg for print specialization support dita 1. Using xml standards such as the darwin information typing architecture dita, xmetal enables authors and contributors to collaborate effectively and to repurpose high value information into the myriad of languages and formats your customers demand. Unfortunately, i dont know any elements that are rendered as indented text in the pdf output. Standalone publishing applications convert dita documentation source files to one or more delivery formats pdf, html, webhelp, mobile formats. An oasis dita adoption technical committee publication dita 1. Geoff also codeveloped the original xmetal 6 topleaf plugin, and implemented the upgrade to the current version.
Currently, geoff is concentrating on topleaf xml implementations and gui development, markup design and data conversion strategies. Our white paper library offers a plethora of practical advice and best practices from some of the brightest minds in the business. Focus is on the use of xsl formatting objects xslfo to produce pdf using any conforming xslfo engine. Create rich, immersive content with unmatched image handling capabilities. Dita support in framemaker and xmetal linkedin slideshare. Document treated as dita ditaspecific menus and styling invisible features such as copypaste from word, automatic id generation 14. It automatically detects the current root map to resolve keys properly and detects the current profiling condition set for proper filtering. Oxygen offers advanced dita editing support, covering dita 1.
Dita resolved by ot, passed to oo writer for rendering toc and index generated by ot preprocess intermediate. Madcap software forums convert dita files for madcap. The patent provisions of the oasis ipr policy do not apply. With xmetal and dita, you can create documents customized for various audiences, products, and platforms from a single set of source files. Tutorial documents are provided in both xml editable with xmetal and html formats. We will demonstrate the xmetal topleaf plugin, highlighting basic formatting, singledouble columns, headers, footers, telltales, custom. Apr 19, 2016 topleaf is a professional dita and xml publishing system from turnkey systems. Xmetal author also helps you maximize content reuse through tight integration with content repositories, and address advanced publishing requirements with. Push the envelope with new capabilities built on top of the latest technologies. The dita ot pdf plugin generator is developed as a spare time project by jarno elovirta and is available for use free of charge. The content you create is continually checked for validity, and you are prevented from entering content that would make your document invalid. For example, content that is in dita can be published to and fully branded pdf, html, rtf, powerpoint, and mobileall without ever copying. Ditatoo dita cms automatically converts your ms word documents to dita, even if your documents are inconsistently or manually styled.
Get started with xml dita authoring with an easytouse workspace. Pdf pdf output is generated from xsl formatting objects xslfo via an. The ditaot pdf plugin generator is developed as a spare time project by jarno elovirta and is available for use free of charge. Samples files installed in the program files folder are deployed on a peruser basis by choosing the help samples submenu item of interest. An xml editor that supports dita, like oxygen, framemaker, or xmetal there are a number of others as well. Xmetal and topleaf making dita publishing easy youtube. Ditatoo is a dita content management system dita cms that automates and facilitates many of the tasks you have to do everyday. Install dita open toolkit for structured authoring, topicbased writing and.
Flare, in my opinion, does not offer as much support for dita as my former editor does. Dita to pdf publishing with fmxauto and oxygen xml editor. The smart conversion algorithm automatically identifies the information types, splits the original ms word document into standalone reusable topics, and assemble them into a map. Our goal is to help you understand what a file with a. Click on the link below to download a free trial of xmetal author enterprise. Pdf options xmetal enhanced pdf best allpurpose pdf deliverable type xmetal enhanced pdf via acrobat distiller use if your documents have eps graphics 42. This visual tutorial guide will give you a deep understanding of xmetal author 10 by walking you through seven stepbystep use cases projects that build upon one another. Version 22 of the oxygen xml editor provides numerous new features, updates, and improvements that focus on productivity, performance, efficiency, and simplicity for xml authoring, development, publishing, and collaboration this major release includes numerous productivity improvements for dita authoring, the cssbased pdf publishing support and the oxygen pdf. Provides dita open toolkit ditaot plugins and supporting components for producing printprimary output from ditabased content. Madcap software forums convert dita files for madcap from.
Introduction to dita and xmetal simon bate scriptorium publishing services. What i mean is that you have to be more dita savvy, have a greater understanding of which tags can be used in what situations, etc. The default setting is for xmetal to use dita ot 3. Generating output file generate output for dita topic troubleshooting. Configuring the dita pdf output webinars justsystems. The element comes very close its rendered as indented in the xmetal enhanced pdf output and also in the html output, but in the pdf it has a box drawn around it. Quick demonstration of creating a pdf from a dita map using fmxauto and oxygen xml editor. Document not treated as dita no reuse or paragraph menus not styled like other dita documents 15. Pdfs from dita using wysiwyg tools leximation, inc. This version of xmetal author enterprise includes dita open toolkit releases 3. Content written in xmetal is organized using darwin information typing architecture dita.
Documentation solutions the free and easy wysiwyg dita. But there are many dita elements that i dont know all about. Framemaker authoring highlights wysiwyg for printpdf. It leverages xml extensible markup language to make your content intelligent, versatile, manageable, and portable. This product, when used in conjunction with xmetal author and topleaf workstation allows users to easily create stylesheets for pdf output in a friendly graphical environment. Nov 03, 2008 pdf options xmetal enhanced pdf best allpurpose pdf deliverable type xmetal enhanced pdf via acrobat distiller use if your documents have eps graphics 42. Dita s creator are made from hefty acetate frames with acetate coated with a special advanced coating which delivers a polished antiglare and scratch resistant design. This advanced xml editor provides the most intuitive tools for xml editing, authoring, and development. This set is highly recommended for users who seek a handson introduction to all aspects of the xmetal development environment. Bob thomas on behalf of the dita adoption technical committee date. Xmetal author enterprise sp edition xmetal justsystems. The tutorials cover a broad range of product functionality.
The dita document file type, file format description, and mac, windows, and linux programs listed on this page have been individually researched and verified by the fileinfo team. Framemaker also has a 1year monthly subscription available. The dita open toolkit publishing engine comes bundled with the application. Xmetal author enterprise the first complete xml editor that offers unmatched innovation in structured authoring, publishing and cms integration. Content management systems for technical documentation and dita.
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Jul 07, 2009 seems everyones adding a dita authoring tool to their content management systems these days. The dita open toolkit user guide and reference is very useful as well, and free. A single topleaf stylesheet can be used to publish your content in pdf. I switched from xmetal to flare a few months ago and i can answer some of your questions. Dec 01, 2010 the darwin information typing architecture dita 1. To make it even better each pair comes with a 2 year warranty. We strive for 100% accuracy and only publish information about file formats that we have tested and validated. Software downloads experience the fullfunctionality of justsystems products. From the structure of the survey questions itread more. A user guide to the darwin information typing architecture book available here. Nov 03, 2008 xmetal highlights ability to edit xml directly integration with dita open toolkit not wysiwyg for print specialization support dita 1.