troubleshooting revision bars in PDFs

[kate_lopresti]

My team uses change bars in PDFs to call out new topics in a document.
When applied to subheadings (H2,H3), the revision bars tend to push section numbers into their titles (see image).
dita-ot.org states that the offset, placement and width attributes are not currently configurable. Is there another option we can use to fix this spacing?

changebar_example.png

Thanks,
Kate

[julien_lacour]

Hello,

Could you indicate which version of Oxygen you are using and which transformation scenario you are running? (DITA Map PDF - based on HTML5 & CSS or DITA Map PDF - based on XSL-FO)
Is it possible for you to copy the original DITA fragment containing the change tracking markers for analysis?

Regards,
Julien

[kate_lopresti]

We're generating DITA Map PDF - based on XSL-FO and using Oxygen XML Author 27.0.

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 <title rev="release-number">Random Number Generation</title>

changebar_toc_example.png

[julien_lacour]

Hello,

Unfortunately DITA Map PDF - based on XSL-FO change bars support is quite limited, you can do more using the DITA Map PDF - based on HTML5 & CSS scenario using attributes similar to this one in the ditaval:

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changebar="color:blue;style:solid;width:2pt;offset:1.25mm;placement:start"

For more information you can check our user guide.

Regards,
Julien

[kate_lopresti]

Thanks, Julien. We can give it a try.