Morikawa K. wrote:
Greetings from Japan.
...
At the moment, we are trying out XXE as Lightweight DITA
editor/converter for topics.
However, we are wondering if DITA-OT plugin can be implemented to convert
dita to PDF from XXE's "convert document" menu.
Could you guide to any document that shows how to do that?
For editing, XXE is great and if our old plugin can be used to create PDF
it would be really great.
My guess is like all our Japanese customers you want to use:
- Antenna House XSL stylesheets for DITA
(https://www.antennahouse.com/dita-pdf5-plugin/)
and:
- Antenna House XSL Formatter (https://www.antennahouse.com/formatter/).
We certainly understand this as Antenna House creates very high quality
tools.
--> Before answering your question, first let me say that that XMLmind
DITA Converter (ditac for short; https://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/), our
clean room implementation of a DITA processor, supports the Antenna
House Formatter too.
Example:
---
ditac -ahf "C:\AHFv6\AHFCmd.exe" out/manual.pdf manual.ditamap
---
See
https://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/commandLine.html#commandLine__option-ahf
In practice, this means that integrating Antenna House Formatter (like
Apache FOP and RenderX XEP currently are) in XXE should be quite easy.
This being said, may be you still want to use Antenna House XSL
stylesheets for DITA, and not our own, less Japanese friendly, XMLmind
XSL stylesheets for DITA.
--> Currently, the only way to integrate DITA-OT into XXE is to execute
an external command-line tool, something resembling:
---
my-dita-ot my-dita-ot-options1 DITAMAP_INPUT_FILE my-dita-ot-options2
PDF_OUTPUT_FILE
---
Please send us privately (mailto:huss...@xmlmind.com) the exact
command-line you would like to use and we'll *try* to send you a
ready-to-use add-on customizing our DITA map and bookmap configurations.
We'll try to do this because we are somewhat curious to see how easy
this is.
We would implement this add-on just like any third-party developer by
taking a look at the stock configurations:
- ".xxe" and ".incl" files found in XXE_install_dir/addon/config/dita/
and XXE_install_dir/addon/lwdita_config/
and by refering to the following documentation:
- "XMLmind XML Editor - Configuration and Deployment",
https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/index.html
- "XMLmind XML Editor - Commands",
https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/index.html
and more precisely, to the kind of commands used to implement document
conversions: "Chapter 5. Process commands",
https://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/process.html
Our add-on would replace the commands called "dita.toPS",
"dita.toPSFile" and also their invocations from the DITA menu. See
XXE_install_dir/addon/config/dita/xslMenu.incl.
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