Oxygen XML Forum

Hi everyone,

What exactly are the possibilties for transforming video content to PDF? On Oxygen's site it states:
"On the publishing side, oXygen comes with a DITA-OT plugin that will enable the multimedia content to appear in HTML and PDF output."

.mp4 <object> seems to only convert to webhelp and not to PDF, is this correct? No option to embed it into PDF (by out of the box transformation scenario's)?

Kind regards,
Jochem de Vos

Dear Jochem,

Right now the media handling plugin (which is also available separately as an open source project) creates for the PDF only links to the movies, so it does not embed them:

https://github.com/oxygenxml/dita-media-support

By default the PDF publishing is done using the open source Apache FOP processor which to my knowledge does not support embedding movies.
But I think that commercial PDF processors like Antenna House or RenderX XEP have certain XSL-FO extensions which would allow for this. So hypothetically when publishing with a commercial CMS the plugin could be changed to allow embedding the movie directly in the PDF.

Regards,
Radu

Understood. Thanks Radu!