You may enjoy DITA content reuse capabilities, but in the end of the day you need to produce a nicely looking output. In early February, Keith Schengili-Roberts, the author of the DITAWriter blog, updated his list of DITA output samples. You can see it here to get an idea of what you can achieve. Publishing … Read More …
In early January, in association with Metapercept Information Solutions, our implementation partner in India, we conducted a webinar on DITAToo for the audience in India. During the webinar we briefly talked about key DITA concepts and then did a live demo of DITAToo. We focused at some DITAToo’s key capabilities, including: Automatic conversion of a … Read More …
Recently, there has been a series of discussions in LinkedIn on whether DITA can bring a return-on-investment (ROI) for small teams. Most of people participated in the discussion agreed that even teams of 1-5 writers can benefit from DITA. I totally agree that the size of a team alone isn’t the factor that influences the … Read More …
As promised, today I want to talk about a new feature that lets you easily publish DITA content outside of DITAToo. I think this feature will be especially useful for FrameMaker users who want to use FrameMaker publishing capabilities to produce a PDF output instead of generating a PDF through the DITA Open Toolkit. In … Read More …
Today I want to tell you how DITAToo 1.6 helps you produce different outputs from the same DITA map based on conditional attributes. Let’s suppose that I’m documenting a product that has different editions (say, Professional and Enterprise). Because the product can work on different operating systems (say, Windows and Linux), there’re slight variations in … Read More …
The recent eSeminar from Adobe and iG5 Authoring Tools was a great success. You can view it here. We demonstrated how using FrameMaker as an authoring tool with DITAToo as a DITA management tool provides a complete solution for your everyday DITA work. We showed that DITAToo allows you to: Store DITA topics in a … Read More …
Well, it’s still not official, but we ourselves like this new feature so much that I can’t wait to share it with you even before the new version is officially released. Suppose you have a DITA map. The map refers to topics in which you are extensively using conditional attributes, such as @product or@platform to … Read More …
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