Scott, RoboHelp might not be dead, but its been in a coma for many years. Are you sure that Adobe can revive it? Do you know anyone who is using RoboHelp with...
After reading the other replys I now know that people are using RoboHelp as a "back end" to produce output, but it appears that they need Arbotext or some...
Yes, there will be a new release of XMetaL in the fall. PDF support will improve in ways I can't disclose right now, but I'll also point out that it is quite...
Eric, Thanks for your feedback. You were correct ... although I have no idea what conflict made the schemas fail. I'd gotten MSXML 4.0 SP2 intalled when I got...
... Good, you've definitely got fop.jar, avalon-framework.jar and batik.jar in your classpath (but you knew that). ... This may suggest that ant.jar is missing...
Hello, Glad to here that you are up and running. I'll fix the job attribute list for DITA 1.1. We should be able to fix the DITA 1.0.1 schemas for DITA-1.3 . ...
Hi All, I am working on the rendering of .ditamap to PDF format. I am stuck up at somewhere and needs your help. I want to read certain information outside the...
Hi, Gaurav: You can maintain the values in an XML side file and read the values using the XSLT document() function. If the side file has the same format as an...
I am currently a Documentation Supervisor for a small pharma software company. My background began in content management (for an internal company knowledge...
Deborah, I have the same challenge... CSS that refers to an image file. I can make it work manually, but how are you getting the image file to be listed in the...
When the toolkit tries to process a topicref with a full url in @href (file:///c:/dir/dir/topic.xml), it seems to find the file okay, but fails to find the DTD...
Hi all, I have managed to use a ditaval file to filter out content that is tagged in the topicref (e.g., using the otherprops att) and in the topic element...
I'm having trouble getting the Idiom XEP plugin to work in my DITA envrironment. I followed all the instructions in the readme file, including installing XEP...
... This article has some excellent thoughts on skill sets needed to succesfully deploy a DITA content creation solution: http://dita.xml.org/node/1347...
... I don't see any column width specifications in your source's <colspec> elements. I vaguely recall that the dita2pdf transformation doesn't like that. ...
I figured out what was causing this for me. I had a copy of resover.jar in a different location than demo\fo\lib. It was being used instead of the one the FO...
Still haven't seen an answer to this one: The Eclipse toc.xml file generated by DITA-OT has the <toc> element and the first <topic> element pointing to the...
I have been experimenting with DITA at home on the cheap, using XMLspy, etc. for editing and Task Modeler for building ditamaps. (Can't afford XMetaL and all...
Hi folks, I'm getting the following error caused by the dita2pdf target when my .ditamap has 2 <topicref/>s that point to the same .dita file. Problem is, I'm...
Hi David, This is a known issue. See this message for details and a possible workaround: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/351 ... my ... ...
David, have you played with the print attribute of topicref/topicgroup? According to the language reference, the print attribute: Specifies whether the topic...
Thanks guys: Mark: "This is a known issue. See this message for details and a possible workaround: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/351" So I'm...
My experience so far is that this behavior is normal. Clicking the map title or topichead in the Eclipse TOC will route to the first child .html file in the...
I'll confirm - the behaviour is both weird and expected :-) The Eclipse <toc topic="x"> attribute only gets used when the generated toc file is primary and not...
Steve, thank you for the help. I'm still unable to get the Java command working (I went to lunch for about an hour, don't tell my boss I'm only supposed to get...
