On 01/07/2014 06:00 PM, Mike Dodds wrote:
Is there a way to run the ditac command line utility from the xmlmind
installation and so use the custom_fo.xsl I've created in XML Mind and embed
the Calibri font I specified in XMLMind
Yes.
I've installed ditac separately and also fop, but I had to change the custom_fo.xsl to
<xsl:import href="ditac-xsl:fo/fo.xsl"/>
This change is indeed required if you prefer to use ditac.
and the calibri font is not embedded in the pdf, and is not used as a result.
That's normal. You just need to point FOP to the FOP configuration file
automatically created by XMLmind XML Editor.
This FOP configuration file is found in:
XXE_user_preferences_dir\fop\fop.conf
where XXE_user_preferences_dir is:
* $HOME/.xxe5/ on Linux.
* $HOME/Library/Application Support/XMLmind/XMLEditor5/ on the Mac.
* %APPDATA%\XMLmind\XMLEditor5\ on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8.
Example: C:\Documents and Settings\john\Application
Data\XMLmind\XMLEditor5\ on Windows XP.
C:\Users\john\AppData\Roaming\XMLmind\XMLEditor5\ on Windows Vista, 7 and 8.
(If you cannot see the "Application Data" directory using
Microsoft Windows File Manager, turn on Tools>Folder Options>View>File
and Folders>Show hidden files and folders.)
Pointing FOP to the FOP configuration file automatically created by
XMLmind XML Editor is done as follows:
Normally ditac requires you to specify the FOP command-line you want to
use by the means of the ``high-level'' "-fop" command-line option.
Instead of using the -fop command-line option, please use the
lower-level "-foconverter" command-line option as follows:
-foconverter FOP pdf "FOP_install_dir\fop.bat" -c
"XXE_user_preferences_dir\fop\fop.conf" -q -r -fo "%I" -pdf "%O"
References:
*
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/commandLine.html#commandLine__option-fop
*
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/commandLine.html#commandLine__option-foconverter
* http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.1/running.html#standalone-start
If I use ditac, does that mean I can't use XMLMInd to do the XSL customisation?
No, you can use XMLmind XML Editor to do the XSL customization. (Here I
suppose that you are talking about the XMLmind XSL Customizer companion
application included in XMLmind XML Editor. See
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.xslcustom.Customizer.html)
But after you are done, you'll have to change by hand:
<xsl:import href="xxe-config:dita/xsl/fo/fo.xsl"/>
to:
<xsl:import href="ditac-xsl:fo/fo.xsl"/>
which is somewhat tedious.
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If you want to avoid all these troubles, why not use convertdoc?
Convertdoc is a command-line tool just like ditac, but unlike ditac,
it's basically XMLmind XML Editor without a GUI!
Therefore there is nothing whatsoever to change in your setup if you
prefer to convert your DITA documents using a command-line tool rather
than using a GUI.
More information in:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/convertdoc.html
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