I'm trying to generate Eclipse Help for my library of user documentation, with the goal of uploading all the plugins to a documentation library on the company intranet. I'm getting this error when running the transform (taken from the log): BUILD FAILED C:\DITA-OTProjectSettings\DITA-OT\build.xml:56...

Sorin, The approach of multiple Customization folders would work if it were only me, but it's not as good a solution for a documentation team who have to produce many different types of PDF output. Maintaining all those Customization folders for multiple team members wouldn't work as well as adding ...

I have run into a new problem with the functioning of the draft watermark solution you communicated in this thread. I have begun moving toward creating a separate plugin in the DITA-OT plugins folder for the different kinds of PDF output my company requires -- such as one that prints a different tit...

I need to add a horizontal rule in my PDF footers that separates a legal statement from information about the company. The solution that occurs to me starts with adding a second variable for each footer "type" declared in the ..Customization/common/vars/en.xml file, as in: <variable id=&qu...

Thanks very much for the thorough explanation, Radu. I really appreciate it.

Gary

After a long interlude, I've finally implemented this customization in my own copy of Author and it works great. Now how do I disseminate it, as well as other changes made in Options > Preferences > Document Type Associations, to other users?

Gary

Works great. Thank you!

I attempted to do what you suggested, setting up a parameter in the transformation scenario called args.watermark and setting it to "Draft" to print the watermark image or "" in order not to print. Then to ../plugins/org.dita.pdf2/build.xml I added: <param name="args.waterma...

This is exactly what I have been looking for today. It works well, except that it printed the image twice on every page, which I think is caused by including the call in the footer as well as the header templates. When I took the call out of the footer templates, the image printed once per page as e...

I think creating a new insert table action is what I want to do. However, how do I insert a table fragment like the following while adding a unique automatically created table ID? <table id="table_jyr_tbc_2m"> <title/> <tgroup cols="2"> <colspec colname="c1" colnum=&quo...

BTW, I'm familiar with the concepts of customization of my DITA framework. I've made other changes to table setup, namely forcing cell borders by default and changing the background color of header cells.

Thanks.

I want to change the default values used for creating a table in a DITA topic so my most commonly needed table (for field definitions) is the default and I don't have to enter the values by hand every time. Specifically, I want these attributes preset: # Columns = 2 # Rows = 3 Column widths = Fixed ...

Thank you very much!

Thanks, Radu.

Since the last post I have tweaked the ditaval file, and I find that my setup works when the output is Webhelp--to the extent of changing the text color and background color of changed text. In addition, I at least get PDF output now, but no changebars, and the text color doesn't change, with the ne...

I understand better, after further research, how this is supposed to work, however I haven't gotten a good result yet. Here is what I've done. I've created a ditaval file: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <val> <style-conflict foreground-conflict-color="blue" back...

I'm interested in printing changebars using the DITA-OT. In the org.dita.pdf2 plugin, there are three xsl files that seem to promise the ability to do this, particularly "flagging.xsl", which has actual changebar language in it. But it's not clear from a day's worth of research how to use ...

Thanks for your detailed reply, Radu. I may simply rethink using the specialization, because I'm not sure the value-add is that significant. Sounds as if others have reached a similar conclusion.

Gary

I'm exploring use of the learning and training specialization elements included in DITA OT 1.2, but I've been frustrated by unexpected behaviors when I try using these in Oxygen, and by a general lack of information here or on the usual DITA user forums. It seems that using Interactions domain eleme...

A follow-up question on creating a conref ID file: Would it work just as well to insert an intelligent ID by hand for each <ph> entry in the conref container file? I'm finding it a little cumbersome searching through the list of <ph> items, which I have inserted into a table in that file to make the...

Yes, that scenario is true of my data. I have a conref folder at the level of all folders that contain ditamaps. This folder contains only one file, which includes conrefs for all product names in the documentation. I'll try the fix involving the transformation parameter. I asked previously, and did...

Hi, When I produce Webhelp output for my DITA project, the graphics folder ends up outside the webhelp folder, in a folder named after the project/product and on the same level as webhelp. There must be a setting causing this, but I can't find it. The graphics display as expected if I simply move th...

Hope you haven't devoted time to this yet. I found the answer to the question of how to hide attributes, namely that there is a Full Tags option and a Full Tags with Attributes option for displaying in the Editor. I had been using the latter. So obvious! But when you get used to using the product in...

Thanks for clarifying the procedure, Mihaela. I have a follow-up question: I put the conref topic file in a separate folder. (We're using SVN as our repository/document management system, BTW, and we use the SVN Client in oXygen). I use a separate folder because I want to have a central file all doc...

I'm not understanding the process of setting up a single file that contains related but separate conref items (in my case product names) and then inserting one of those items as a conref in another document. The oXygen documentation skims over the mere capability without giving real-world examples a...

Easy!

Many thanks.

I just realized something which will help explain my problem. The transformation scenarios I'm speaking of are project-related ones. So, I guess a better way to ask my question is to say, can I migrate a project's transformation scenarios to other projects, or import them into projects in the new ve...

Thanks for the tips, Radu. I wasn't clear in my last question regarding transformation scenarios. I have several transformation scenarios I created in version 14.0 which I would like to replicate in Author 14.1. As it stands, with the installation of 14.1, I only have access to the stock transformat...

Hi, I installed version 14.1 today, pointing to a new install directory rather than installing over the old 14.0. I was surprised to find that ../frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/demo is empty! I read the readme file there, but it doesn't answer for me the question of what to do to preserve the changes I mad...

Hi Radu, Thanks for your response. Your suggestion didn't work exactly as intended. The problem is that the break-after attribute needs to come in an <fo:block> statement before the first line of copyright info. It's a very simple solution in that you can slip the code just before the commented-out ...