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PDFs from the DITA Open Toolkit The Easy and the Not So Easy Leigh White DITA Specialist [email protected] Presented at DITA-OT Day November 2014

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PDFs from the DITA Open Toolkit

The Easy and the Not So Easy

Leigh WhiteDITA Specialist

[email protected]

Presented at DITA-OT DayNovember 2014

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Me

• Background in Theoretical Linguistics• Technical Writer who moved into Information

Architecture• Not a developer…just stubborn• Willing to experiment, willing to break things

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Why is this important?

• You need a POC to get the approval for a DITA migration

• You need a developer to design the outputs for the POC

• You probably can’t get funds just for a POC developer

• It’s up to YOU!

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The Easy

• Creating a PDF plugin• Editing localization variables• Formatting text

Titles Body text Note labels Lists

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The Not So Easy

• Finding the file to edit• Configuring fonts• Formatting tables• Formatting the TOC

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The Stupidly Hard

• Setting up pages• Changing header and footer information• Formatting the index

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Troubleshooting

• topic.fo

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Questions?