Note to self: custom texts can have parametrized parts, e.g.: <variable id="Body odd footer"><param ref-name="documentnumber"/> <param ref-name="buildlanguage"/> <param ref-name="builddate"/></variabl

#DITA-OT #PDF #HTML

Hi, If you look in the console output the publishing seems to break because one of your XSLT stylesheets is not wellformed: Maybe you can fix that error first and then continue your customization. Reg

#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

#PDF

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

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

#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

#PDF

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

#PDF

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

Not that I am aware of. Kris

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Thank you all for your replies, The problem is solved, thanks this email reply below: 😎 “Are you on Windows? If so, make sure you have installed the font for all users. Right-click the font name in Wi

#PDF #DITA-OT

I worked (somewhat indirectly) with Mark Novembrino for several years when I was at Brocade (Now Broadcom). He was a superb resource and a very good person to work with. He was instrumental in our tra

#consulting #DITA-OT #PDF

Excellent, thank you. I'm not as familiar with the bookmap, but I will certainly become familiar. I can see it in my future.

#PDF #DITA-OT

I'm afraid it is an Acrobat "feature" When the file is opened in Acrobat, Acrobat autodetects things that look like links and mailto. Here are a few posts about the issue. The first one talks about li

#PDF

Sorry, I wasn’t clear, I am doing this in the XSLT. I probably found Elliot’s suggestion back when I started this 2-4 months ago. I’m just trying to figure out which template to work with next. I can

#PDF #tables

Hi everyone, I am working on a customization for a PDF transform. I have added a couple elements to my DTD, namely <revisions/> and <revisionhighlights/>. These two elements use metadata from my bookm

#PDF

Just updated to version 22. This is what I wanted. A bit of CSS and bingo! Thanks for implementing this.

#glossary #PDF #Oxygen

That helped. I was able to get the formatting to display correctly by setting margin-left to inherit for topic__shortdesc. Then when I style link__shortdesc, the margin is inherited. Unfortunately thi

#PDF #shortdesc

Hi Chris, It would be great if you could contribute topics to the Oxygen XML Blog. Some details about how you can contribute can be found here: https://oxygenxmlblog.netlify.com/topics/welcome.html#we

#CSS #Oxygen #PDF