Hi there, Your ANT file is not *quite* a copy of what's in the book. 🙂 You have the line <ant antfile="${dita.dir}/plugins/com.try.custpdf/build.xml"> which calls the build file in your plugin. If you

#DITA-OT #bookmap #PDF

This Ant file is simply deleting your output directory and then calling the build.xml file in plugins/com.try.custpdf. Does build.xml include the code to build the PDF? -Reece

#DITA-OT #bookmap #PDF

Dear All, I am a new Dita learner. Recently, I purchased the Dita for Print Book and I am trying to do the exercises given in the book. I successfully built an ant file. When I generate output, I get

#DITA-OT #bookmap #PDF

Your XPath is selecting every chapter @outputclass value in the document--if you put the value out to a message you should see all the values in the doc. "//*" at the start of an XPath means "all elem

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Hi all, OT 2.5.4, PDF. I'm trying to set a variable based on the outputclass value of the current <chapter> element in a bookmap. bookmap |_chapter outputclass="foo" |_mapref... |_chapter outputclass=

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Hi List, If you are publishing DITA documents that contains <indexterm>, you may make index pages by specifying backmatter/booklists/indexlist. Also if your publication contains Simplified Chinese loc

#DITA-OT #PDF

Solved the issue!

#PDF #FOP #XSLT

Hi dita experts, as title says, I'm trying to automatically generate title for <screenshots> every time when it comes up in my documentation. It should be same as section titles, but not the titles li

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Not really sure, it was the decision authors made together, I'm just there as technical support.

#FOP #XSLT #PDF

The real question is why are you messed that deep? That number of levels must be frustrating to authors and readers. Julio J. Vazquez

#FOP #XSLT #PDF

I´ve been working on landscape for my custom PDF transformation for few months now (on and off project). I´ve picked it up again few days ago and I´m pretty close I think. What I´m trying to do is det

#FOP #PDF

That was fast. Thank you this worked perfectly!

#FOP #XSLT #PDF

Hi, By default 6th level don't have bold as font-style. I think you have to modify following attribute set (that corresponds to 6th level) to change font-style as you want. <xsl:attribute-set name="to

#FOP #XSLT #PDF

Hi, I've been trying to implement the title numbering for PDF and I found a code on the github (https://github.com/oxygenxml/dita-ot-numbering/blob/master/customization.xsl) that works great. I've bee

#FOP #XSLT #PDF

Good news everybody! Just found this in my inbox this morning: Starting with Oxygen 22.1, when using the DITA Map PDF - based on HTML5 & CSS transformation, all tables spanning on multiple pages will

#tables #CSS #PDF

I used to do this in GNU Troff, about 10 years ago. Front matter was Roman numerals, then Chapter 1 began with page 1, and the page number in Acrobat tracked the page number in the footer. So you coul

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Do a web search for "pretty print <script language>" to see if there's a utility that can fix up the pasted content automatically. I think this happens when the formatter replaces leading spaces with

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I was really curious about this myself. Eric pointed me to the DITA 1.3 spec which he said also had this issue. Specifically he pointed to me to page 526. On that page in the PDF, there's a codeblock.

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Hi, I would like to report the release of a new DITA-OT plugin which permit to manage DITA XML <imagemap> element in PDF output (not yet implemented in DITA-OT project). This plugin is publicly publis

#DITA-OT #PDF #SVG

A couple of recent things, having to do with python, which depends on spacing as part of its syntax: https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/03/exporting-data-from-pdfs-with-python/ https://automat

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