Category Archives: Publishing

Recording of the Joint Webinar with Adobe on FrameMaker and DITAToo DITA CMS Is Now Available

Our joint presentation with Adobe on FrameMaker and DITAToo DITA CMS was a great success! We’ve attracted a lot of interest and got a very positive feedback. Pavel Shulga, our CTO, has demonstrated how a combination of FrameMaker and DITAToo can give you an out-of-the-box integrated solution for authoring, publishing, and managing DITA content. Pavel Read More …

DITA Publishing with DITAToo DITA CMS

DITA OT Customization

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 …

Watch the Recording of Our Latest Webinar on DITAToo DITA CMS Online

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 …

Publishing from DITAToo through DITA OT version 1.6

As you know, DITA Open Toolkit (DITA OT) version 1.6 has significantly improved the overall performance, especially when publishing large documents. The Release Notes for DITA OT 1.6 state that “building the DITA 1.2 Language Specification to XHTML takes just over 1/3 of the time as with the previous release (tests show an improvement of Read More …

DITAToo Goes East! Meet Us at the 14th STC India Annual Conference on November 29-December 1 in Bangalore, India

Together with our implementation partner and reseller in India, Metapercept Information Solutions & Consulting, we’ll show you how small- and medium-size companies that don’t have a big budget for expensive CMSs can still benefit from DITA. Join us at this presentation and you’ll see how DITAToo automates and facilitates most of the tasks that any Read More …

New Feature in DITAToo Translation Management: Get Translated DITA Files for External Publishing

Based on the feedback we are receiving from our implementation partners and customers, we keep improving the translation management features in DITAToo. Today I want to tell you about one more small, but useful enhancement we’ve made. Remember that earlier DITAToo allowed you to download an entire DITA project with all relevant files (topics, graphics, Read More …

Translation Management in DITAToo: Now You Can Choose the Publishing Language Too

While I’m waiting for a taxi that will take me to the airport on my way to the NLDITA Tools conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands, I want to tell you about one more capability we’re adding to the translation management feature in DITAToo. Suppose you have a project that you translated to several languages. In Read More …

Generate .ditaval Files from DITAToo’s Publishing Profiles and Publish DITA Content Outside of DITAToo

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 …

Use Publishing Profiles to Produce Different Outputs Based on DITA Conditional Attributes

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 …

FrameMaker for Authoring, DITAToo for DITA Management

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 …