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XML Press DITA for Print by Leigh W White
As DITA has become more and more popular demand has increased for tools that can provide high quality PDFs from DITA content. The DITA Open Toolkit provides a basic PDF capability but nearly any realworld application will require customization.Leigh Whites book DITA for Print has become the goto reference for building a print customization plugin for the DITA Open Toolkit. This second edition covers Open Toolkit version 2 including customizing the DITA 1.3 troubleshooting topic type localization strings bookmarks and the new backcover functionality.DITA for Print is for anyone who wants to learn how to create PDFs using the DITA Open Toolkit without learning everything there is to know about XSLFO XSLT or XPath or even about the DITA Open Toolkit itself. DITA for Print is written for nonprogrammers by a nonprogrammer and although it is written for people who have a good understanding of the DITA standard you dont need a technical background to get custom PDFs up and running quickly.Custom PDF plugin creation: Organization of the DITA Open Toolkit Installing the DITA Open Toolkit Creating your own plugin DITA Open Toolkit builds: Setting up the ANT build environment Setting up a PDF renderer Setting up fonts Managing attribute sets localization variables and localization strings Formatting your content: Page masters Page headers and footers Cover pages (front and back) Titles body text lists and notes Task topics tables and images Links xrefs and footnotes Table of Contents lists of tables and figures bookmarks and indexesshow more