I am running two transformation scenarios that uses a customized DITA OT v1.8.5 to produce pdf2 and D4P output. Both PDF and D4P produce output when I run it in Oxygen 19. But when I run the same scenarios in Oxygen 20.1, they both fail. Partial PDF and D4P log files below. What do you think? Thanks...

Aha! Great, that worked. I went to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, and I unchecked Mission Control (which was Ctrl-Up Arrow) and also unchecked Application windows (Ctrl-Down Arrow).

Now I can do what I need with Ctrl-up/down, just like in Windows.

Thanks,
Mark

Using Oxygen 19.1 standalone on OSX. When I have a file open (XML, XSLT, shell script etc), I want to scroll the window without moving the mouse. On Windows I can do this with Ctrl-Up Arrow and Ctrl-Down Arrow. What is the equivalent on OSX? I can do this with 2 fingers on the trackpad but I want a ...

I have a client who has a dozen or more writers using Oxygen but the department manager complained to me that she could not renew the Oxygen maintenance by having her purchasing department issue a purchase order. The manager has to use her own credit card to buy the maintenance, and then fill out an...

I got it working. All I did was to remove the existing XEP config in the FO Processors dialog, and replace it with nothing. Then it just worked. I guess Oxygen was smart enough to figure it out from these DITA OT parameters that were already there in the transformations scenario: pdf.formatter = xep...

Thanks Radu. Does it need to be the shell script? Because the XEP shell script (usually called "xep") is not in the repo I'm using. Only the jar file xep.jar is available as an executable. I could dig up the shell script from another XEP installation I have, but I'd like to now if I can ge...

I'm using Oxygen 18.1 on OSX. Oxygen seemed to find where XEP was when I installed Oxygen. But when I run a PDF from a DITA map (DITA OT 1.8.5), the build fails with this error: BUILD FAILED /Users/maglid/git/tools/DITA-OT/build.xml:44: The following error occurred while executing this line: /Users/...

Adrian, I emailed the force quit log file to support@oxygenxml.com.

Here is another report. This was from today, the author opened Oxygen using Launch Pad. Oxygen never opened, it just had an endless spinning beachball. He had to use Force Quit. No Oxygen messages. This time Oxygen would open after the Force Quit. There have been times in the past where it hasn't, a...

Thanks Adrian. I'm collecting more information. Here is a response from one writer: Just about every morning, when I go to open Oxygen I get a dialog with the following message: "The application may have crashed during the precious run. Do you want to open the files that were being edited in th...

I have about a dozen writers using Oxygen 18.1 on Mac OS X (DITA). About 5 of them say that Oxygen crashes on them every day at least once. Some of those are using OS X Sierra 10.12.4. Sometimes they can't get Oxygen to work again unless they reboot. Is there a problem with 18.1 on OSX? Would upgrad...

Using version 18.1. My map called top-level.ditamap references topics and a map of key definitions: <map> <title>My Guide</title> <topicref href="topic1.xml" /> <topicref href="topic2.xml" /> <mapref href="keydefs.ditamap" format="ditamap"/> </map> keydefs.dit...

Do you sell this plugin? I need to run it on a server, not from Oxygen.

Thanks,
Mark

Thanks for the information, Adrian. I might try setting up the W3C validator with Oxygen. For reference, the code for this validator is here:

https://validator.w3.org/source/
https://github.com/w3c/markup-validator

Regards,
Mark

Using Oxygen 18.0. I work with a lot of HTML5 documents these days and I want to be able to validate them in oxygen, or at least pretty-print them. But pretty-print fails because it does not like the non-XML HTML5 syntax. I don't want to have to XML-ize all the HTML5 I work with. Is there some way t...

Hi Radu, I put DITA template files in <Oxygen install dir>/frameworks/dita/templates/<company>. Then I went to Options > Preferences > Editor > Templates > Document Templates and added the template dir above. Removing the standard DITA templates would be good, what's a good way to do that? Removing ...

I have made custom DITA DTD shells for a team of writers, using a custom doctype in the standard way. I've created custom Oxygen map and topic templates that use these doctypes and installed them in the authors' New dialog box. But authors still sometimes create topics with the standard DTDs, which ...

I have a set of DITA template files that have a custom doctype. If I manually add the template folder using Options > Preferences > Editor > Templates > Document Templates, they appear in the New dialog box. Is there a way to distribute this template setup to authors without them having to manually ...

Will the webhelp plugin work in DITA Open Toolkit version 1.5.3? My client uses that version, and using a newer version inside their CCMS would take more effort. By the way I would be using the server license of the webhelp plugin.

Thanks,
Mark

So I assume this also applies to customized attribute files? For example in \plugins\myplugin\cfg\fo\attrs\custom.xsl I have this order: <xsl:include href="task-elements-attr.xsl"/> <xsl:include href="commons-attr.xsl"/> <xsl:include href="toc-attr.xsl"/> <xsl:include h...

My client uses easyDITA and I want to upload the Oxygen webhelp DITA Open Toolkit plugin to their easyDITA server so they can use it to build their webhelp system on easyDITA, as opposed to having to do it on their local computers with Oxygen. Can I just upload this plugin, or do they need to buy th...

Great idea, thanks for the suggestion Sorin.

Mark

Thanks for the information, it is useful. But I wanted to know if I could use an alias number instead of hard-coded paths and filenames of HTML files. With context-sensitive help in an installed application, it is normal to use aliases instead of hard-coded filenames and paths. You create a mapping ...

I want to do context-sensitive help using Oxygen Webhelp output (DITA source files). This would be on the file system where an application is installed. It looks like I can call the help system with a specific HTML file displayed with a syntax like the following: file:///C:/Users/joe/path/webhelp/in...

You are right, SDL does have an "authoring bridge" for Oxygen now. Here is an announcement about it that I found: http://www.sdl.com/community/blog/details/31372/together-at-last-sdl-livecontent-oxygen-a-winning-combination I got a copy of this bridge from my client. However it's for Oxyge...

I have a client who uses DITA with SDL and XMetal, but Oxygen's forms-based authoring capability would be very useful. Will Oxygen work with SDL, like over WebDav or some other method?

In oxygen 15.0 I'm running the DITA Open Toolkit and I can't get the log output to display as it runs. This was turned on by default in Oxygen 14.2. How do I turn it on? I don't even know what to call it so I'm not sure what to search for in the help.

Thanks

How can I validate an XHTML doc that has an embedded W3C Schema namespace? I have the MadCap.xsd schema referenced below. (This is a MadCap Flare file.) Here is the head of the XHTML file: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:MadCap="http://www.madcapsoftware.com/Schemas/M...

Thanks Radu, that works. I failed to notice the New button on the Parameters tab. That might have been because I read the online help for the Parameters tab, and the second sentence is "All the parameters that can be set to the DITA-OT build files for the chosen type of transformation (eg: XHTM...

How can I use the DITA Open Toolkit customization.dir parameter so I can use a different Customization dir for PDF output? I have tried the Advanced tab in the Edit DITA Scenario dialog box, Additional arguments field. Can't get it to work.

Thanks,
Mark