Speaking of notes, we are about to change them in 23.1, I hope they will not break again your customization :). We plan to stabilize the intermediate HTML structure and the default CSS starting from version 24. For our regression tests we use the PDFBox Java library. We actually check differences be...

Thank you for sharing! For our automated tests we use area tree dumps (XML fragments with all the details: coordinates, shapes, text position), Comparing the images is probably more intuitive.

We cannot reproduce this on a standard Oxygen XML Editor installation. From the log I see you are using an Ixiasoft transformation pipeline. I recommend contacting them.

Many regards,
Dan

I recorded an issue about trying to reduce the size of the PDF files. The PDF Box: https://pdfbox.apache.org/ library can handle PDF and can load and resave them with other compression settings, maybe you can try it.

Thank you for sharing!

Floats are a complex task. We are trying to implement it in the next major version, for the next autumn...
Many regards,
Dan

A hint, I am not an expert in XSL-FO customization, probably this type of questions are better answered on the DITA-OT discussion list (see https://www.dita-ot.org/support) These templates generate static content that is associated to a page sequence. By repeatedly applying find in files (each time ...

For advanced questions regarding the XSL-FO publishing plugin, please use: https://dita-users.groups.io/g/main

Can you give more details about how the numbering is activated? Do you use a plugin, or a parameter?

Many regards,
Dan

It will not be done on short term. If you are in a hurry, please consider using Antenna House or Prince XML as CSS processors, they are great layout engines. You can use the css.processor.type and css.processor.path.* parameters to specify the path to the processor to use. https://www.oxygenxml.com/...

Indeed, the float is experimental, so I would not recommend using it yet. I will increase the priority of this feature.

Many regards,
Dan

Sure, you can set the name of the image file in the metadata section, in a data element (you can put one in the prodname element for instance, or in a topic), then use XPath to extract it and pass it to the CSS url function. In the next example the name attribute of the data element is set to 'image...

The solution is to use an XPath to extract some information from the document, and based on it select the SVG images. @page front-page { background-image: url(oxy_xpath("\ if(//*[contains(@class, ' topic/prodname ')][1] = 'gardening') then 'bg-gardening.svg' else\ if(//*[contains(@class, ' topic/pro...

Indeed the error messages are issued when the intermediate FO file is processed and are pointing to lines and columns in this file. You can open the .fo file in oXygen and identify the markup. Further you can use the text content of that table to identify the original topic. I will record an improve...

Hello Manohar,

Could you please send your current customization CSS and a small sample using the form https://www.oxygenxml.com/techSupport.html?
What oXygen are you using right now?

Many regards,
Dan

No, unfortunately the index must be placed in either frontmatter or backmatter, and those elements cannot be placed between chapters. I understand the first chapter plays a special role, is a kind of abstract. Why not placing in in the frontmatter, as an abstract? If you need more information about ...

Hello Chris, Thank you for sharing your code! So, whenever you have a paragraph that contains punctuation like column or comma, the next content (like images, or other content that may follow it) is kept on the same page with the paragraph. Is a nice example on how powerful is a combination of XSL a...

We will look into this, thank you for letting us know.
Dan

Such a complex situation... Glad you work it out!

I am not sure why this happens. You can try debugging the XSLT transformation with oXygen - it is a bit complicated to setup this, but here is how it may be done: The file you need to debug is: DITA-OT/plugins/com.oxygenxml.pdf.css/xsl/merged2merged/merged.xsl First, make a DITA transformation with ...

I am glad it worked! There are some ideas about updating specializations here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/dita/1.3/specs/non-normative/migration-to-new-version.html If you need a DITA professional advice for this, please direct your questions to the dita-user mailing list. If you have other questions...

Hello, We implemented a restriction in the catalog resolver to avoid security issues like the transformation process reading files unrelated to the transformation. This is useful when you are using a DITA-OT in a context where the content may come from outside organization contributors. You can disa...

What PDF transformation are you using, the one based on XSL-FO or HTML5+CSS? For the later, please see the page breaking documentation topic: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/ ... e_breaking

For the TOC you should see how the counters toc-section1 and toc-chapter-and-sections are used in the p-numbering-deep.css file (similar to section1 and chapter-and-section counters that are used for titles in the main content). The default numbering CSS file is located in: OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/DITApl...

Depending on the args.css numbering parameter, one of the CSSs is used: OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/DITA-OT3X/plugins/com.oxygenxml.pdf.css/css/print/p-numbering-shallow.css OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/DITA-OT3X/plugins/com.oxygenxml.pdf.css/css/print/p-numbering-deep.css Unfortunately, there are lots of CSS selector...

This is a very specific requirement. The solution is to reset the section1 counter to 0 by matching the topic chapter with a specific ID (or outputclass), or the first topic from that chapter. You need to do this in both the TOC and content counters, so you will need an outputclass set on the topicr...

I see from the image properties screenshot that the image is a perfect square, while in the CSS you are using slightly different values for the width and for the height. To get perfect alignment of graphical elements in the page, we recommend using a single background image for the entire page, as i...

Please note that the image path should be given as an absolute URI, like: file:/C:/temp/example.svg. It works also with relative paths, but it will solve them relative to the XML location.

There might be something that has changed in the DITA files (maybe something that is included from multiple maps). This is what you can try: 1. Copy your map and try to remove topic reference from it until this specific error disappears. Try to identify the specific topic that causes the problem. Cr...

Please see: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/22.1/ug-chemistry/topics/ch_pdf_output.html#ch_metadata__section_aqz_j2j_wz -oxy-pdf-meta-title It is used to extract the publication title. If this CSS selector matches multiple elements, only the first element in the document order will be used to...

One easy way to determine what causes the spacing and fix it in the CSS is to use the CSS inspector from the browser. The procedure is explained here: https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/22.1/ug-ope/topics/dcpp_debugging_the_css.html#dcpp_debugging_the_css If you still have problems please create...